Noel Sinclair appointed to top UN post

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Noel Sinclair appointed to top UN post

Sep 01, 2013 News

Ambassador Noel Sinclair, who recently completed his tour of duty as CARICOM Permanent Observer to the United Nations, on August 26 assumed the function of Deputy Chef de Cabinet to the President of the 68th Session of the United Nations General Assembly, Ambassador John Ashe of Antigua and Barbuda. In this new role, Sinclair will be one of a small group of diplomatic and other personnel selected to work as close advisors to the President of the General Assembly.
This appointment comes at a high point in the long and distinguished Foreign Service career of Ambassador Sinclair; a career that spans different continents and includes diplomatic postings and high level responsibilities in national, regional and international organizations.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon greets Ambassador Noel Sinclair

Sinclair is a past Director General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and held diplomatic positions in the Guyana Embassies in Washington and Caracas; at the Guyana High Commission in Lusaka and in New York where he served as Permanent Representative of Guyana to the UN Mission. It is as part of this latter responsibility that he discharged duties as President of the UN Security Council. He also acted as President of the United Nations Council for Namibia, promoting expanded recognition of the Council by the international community as the legal administering body for the territory of Namibia, then under illegal occupation by South Africa.
Immediately before becoming CARICOM’s Permanent Observer, he was Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, where he presided over the peace talks and the weapons disposal process among the former antagonists in their 10-year civil war.
Ambassador Sinclair also served as Deputy Permanent Secretary of SELA (the Latin American Economic System) at its headquarters in Caracas.
Sinclair’s appointment as Deputy Chef de Cabinet to the President of the United Nations General Assembly provides an opportunity for him to advise on decision-making for the effective management of the work of the Assembly as it confronts its 167-item Agenda. This includes a number of items of special interest to CARICOM states, including the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to be held in Samoa in 2014.

3 thoughts on “Noel Sinclair appointed to top UN post”

Emile_Mervin September 1, 2013 at 2:11 am

This gentleman has been a respected diplomat, like, forever. He transcends partisan or ethnic politics.
Linden Sinclair September 1, 2013 at 8:40 pm

Congratulations cousin, you earned it, no thanks to country, but you have made your country proud
andrew767 September 8, 2013 at 8:17 pm

Will he transcend the $billion corruption of the UN as well?

For 51 years the colony of West New Guinea has been subjected to UN General Assembly resolution 1752 (XVII) and Chapter XII (the International Trusteeship System) of the Charter of the United Nations. Over 400,000 people have been killed, the US and BP are looting the colony of its mineral resources, and among other things Indonesia has moved over a million people from Asia to this Pacific Island in an attempt to prevent the locals ever being allowed to vote for their independence from the UN administrator.

Will anybody at the UN call on Ban Ki-moon to perform his duty of adding notice of General Assembly resolution 1752 (XVII) to the agenda of the Trusteeship Council?

Mr Ashe says he wants to help with “matters of survival”, will he help my neighbours of West Papua ?