“It’s an important appointment, it’s additionally an important honor for Belgium,” Peter Piot, till now the primary and solely Belgian to have served as a U.N. undersecretary-general, told De Morgen. “UNDP is crucial group of the U.N. relating to basic improvement. There has actually been an enormous competitors for that place, nations are lobbying very laborious for it,” he added.
The UNDP administrator is the third-highest place within the U.N. hierarchy after the secretary-general and deputy secretary-general. It is usually the best submit exterior the U.N. Secretariat and serves as vice chair of the United Nations Sustainable Growth Group, which coordinates all U.N. businesses working within the discipline.
De Croo’s transfer means he’ll resign his seat within the Belgian parliament, the place he was elected final 12 months, in response to Flemish public broadcaster VRT.
He will likely be changed by Sandro Di Nunzio, at the moment deputy mayor of Lochristi in East Flanders. In Brakel, the place De Croo serves as mayor, Marleen Gyselinck will step in as appearing mayor.
