ARTICLE - NEW HEAD OF UN MISSION IN HAITI

CAREER CHILEAN DIPLOMAT TAKES UP POST AS HEAD OF UN PEACEKEEPING MISSION IN IMPOVERISHED HAITI
(Washington Post) - AP

PORT-AU-PRINCE — A career Chilean diplomat has taken up his post as head of the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti.

Mariano Fernandez Amunategui (Ah-mu-NA-te-gee) is the special representative of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He replaces Edmond Mulet, a Guatemalan diplomat who left the job in late May.

Fernandez will oversee the U.N. mission that was sent to Haiti in 2004 to stabilize the poor Caribbean country after a violent rebellion toppled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and sent him into exile.

The United Nations press office said Monday that Fernandez arrived in Haiti on Sunday.