Tadesse Werede - Wikipedia

Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede Tesfay

Commander, United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei
Incumbent
Assumed office 27 July 2011
Nominated by	Ban Ki-moon
Head of the Joint Training Department, Ethiopian National Defense Force
Army Corps Commander, Ethiopian National Defense Force

Personal details
Born	(1958-07-13) July 13, 1958 (age 66) Ethiopia
Nationality	Ethiopian

Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede Tesfay is Head of Mission and Force Commander of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). He was appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to implement the mandate of the UN peacekeeping mission in the region of Abyei in Sudan, an oil-producing region with disputable borders between the governments of Sudan and South Sudan.^[1]

UNISFA was established by the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1990 of 27 June 2011.^[2] Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede Tesfay will oversee the monitoring and verification of the withdrawal of all armed forces in Abyei.^[3]

Lieutenant General Tesfay was born in Mekelle, a city in Enderta province of Ethiopia, he is a veteran in the Ethiopian National Defense Force and has held various high-ranking positions there.

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Preceding years	International Telegraph Union Universal Postal Union Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 Permanent Court of Arbitration International Office of Public Hygiene League of Nations archives covenant organization member states
Preparatory years	Declaration of St James's Palace (1941) Atlantic Charter (1941) Declaration by United Nations (1942) Moscow Conference (1943) Tehran Conference (1943) Bretton Woods Conference (1944) Dumbarton Oaks Conference (1944) Yalta Conference (1945) Conference on International Organization (1945) Genocide Convention (1948)
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