Topic: Michele Montas
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The United Nations continues to believe that stability, prosperity and democratic freedoms can be ensured only through a consensual and inclusive dialogue process that would address the root causes of the crisis and would be accepted by all parties
U.N. calls for smooth, peaceful transition Mar 30, 2009
The Secretary-General is grateful to Mr. Alexander for his dedicated service in Afghanistan over the past three years, during which he made a valuable contribution to UNAMA's efforts to foster peace and stability in Afghanistan
Learn from Iraqi lessons; Private funds back Taliban Mar 26, 2009
He is convinced and alarmed that this escalation will inevitably increase the already heavy suffering of the affected civilian populations
Security Council meets on Gaza invasion Jan 03, 2009
The secretary-general believes that the sooner these issues are addressed, the earlier Myanmar will be able to move towards peace, democracy and prosperity
Suu Kyi trial delayed Jul 03, 2009
Michèle Montas (born 1946) is an award-winning journalist from Haiti and the former Spokesperson under UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (January 1, 2007 - January 1, 2010). Prior to her appointment, Montas headed the French unit of UN Radio. From 2003 to 2004, she served as the Spokesperson for UN General Assembly President Julian Robert Hunte soon after she fled to New York from Haiti.
Montas began her journalism career in Haiti in the early 1970s with her husband, Jean Dominique, a prominent Haitian journalist. Dominique's station, Radio Haiti-Inter, was attacked several times in the 1980s and 1990s, and the couple was forced to flee the country twice to briefly live in exile. Dominique was assassinated in April 2000 after broadcasting increasingly-strident criticisms of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's party on his program. (Aristide was not in power at the time.) Montas took over the radio station, but shut it down in February 2003 and fled to New York after her bodyguard was gunned down in an attack on her home and she received several death threats. Montas returned to Haiti as of recently due to career-affiliated roles with MINUSTAH and joint co-operation with her superior, UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon.
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