President lauds outgoing UN Resident Coordinator

Outgoing United Nations Representative in Guyana, Khadija Musa (left) makes a point to President David Granger (second from left), during her brief remarks on Friday evening. (Ministry of the Presidency photo)

President David Granger on Friday bade farewell to outgoing United Nations Resident Coordinator in Guyana and the United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative, Khadija Musa, who he said has served Guyana with distinction over the last four years.

“Ms Musa presented her credentials to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in February 2012. She came not as a novice but as a hard-headed, though not hard-hearted, veteran of complex situations in over 20 countries. Her work in Africa, especially in Egypt, Ethiopia, Liberia, Tanzania and Uganda, in Asia, during the South East Asia tsunami catastrophe, in Afghanistan, in the Middle East and in Europe more than adequately