UNITED NATIONS, Dec 29 (NNN-XINHUA) – UN Secretary-General, Antonio Guterres, announced yesterday, the appointment of Abdullah Abdul Samad Dashti of Kuwait, as the new UN coordinator for the Black Sea Grain Initiative.
Dashti succeeds Amir Mahmoud Abdulla of Sudan, who served as the UN coordinator since Aug, 2022, according to a press note from the UN chief’s office.
Dashti was the military defence attache of Kuwait in Belgium, and the Kuwaiti mission’s representative to NATO from 2019 to 2020, and retired in 2021 from the Kuwaiti armed forces, at the rank of vice admiral.
The Black Sea Grain Initiative was launched by Ukraine, Türkiye, Russia and the United Nations in July, 2022, to enable the resumption of exports from Ukraine of grain, foodstuffs, and fertiliser, including ammonia, through a safe maritime humanitarian corridor.– NNN-XINHUA
