UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon Appoints Heidi Mendoza

Today in Philippine History (Philatelic Edition Series 2):

October 12, 2015

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon announces to the UN General Assembly his appointment of Ms. Heidi S. Mendoza, Commissioner of the Philippine Commission of Audit, as Under-Secretary General of the Office of Internal Oversight Office (OIOS) on October 12, 2015. Mendoza is the first Filipino to be appointed as Under-Secretary General in the UN Secretariat. 

The United Nations General Assembly unanimously approved the appointment. Ambassador Lourdes O. Yparraguirre, Permanent Representative of the Philippines to the UN, welcomed the appointment and thanked the regional groups of the UN for their endorsement and the Member States for their affirmation of the appointment. 

Under UN rules, the appointment by the Secretary General is submitted to the General Assembly for approval. The United States and the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden also hailed the appointment. 

President of the General Assembly H.E. Ambassador Mogens Lykketoft gavels on the General Assembly’s approval of Mendoza’s appointment, at the 29th plenary meeting of the General Assembly held on October 6, 2015. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon sat at his right side. 

Mendoza's appointment is for a fixed term of five years without renewal. As the UN’s Under-Secretary General for Internal Oversight, she is responsible over the resources and staff of the organization through internal audit, monitoring, inspection, evaluation and investigation services.

(Design, concept, stamps and research: Richard Allan B. Uy) All rights reserved

Photo credit: wikipedia.org