Dr al-Jaafari Reelected as Rapporteur of UN Special Committee on Decolonization

NEW YORK, (SANA) – The Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab republic to the UN, Dr. Bashar al-Jaafari, was unanimously re-elected as Rapporteur of UN Special Committee on Decolonization. The re-election of al-Jaafari as the Committee’s Rapporteur for 2013 came during its meeting held at the UN headquarters in New York on Thursday. Ecuador’s Deputy Permanent Representative was elected as the Committee Chairman with the permanent representatives of Sierra Leone and Cuba were elected as the chairman’s deputies.