UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) -- UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Thursday announced the appointment of a Spanish Major General as Force Commander of the UN peacekeeping operation in Lebanon.
Alberto Asarta Cuevas will be heading the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), where he had been UNIFIL Sector East Commander from December 2008 to April 2009.
A statement, released here by Ban's spokesman, said that Cuevas, who is currently adviser to the Chief of Staff of the Spanish Army, will bring to his new position "extensive and wide-ranging experience, including significant command experience and prior experience with United Nations peacekeeping."
He succeeds Major General Claudio Graziano of Italy, whose tenure will end on Jan. 28, 2010.
Among his distinguished command appointments, which include up to the level of Armored Brigade Commander, he was also deputy brigade commander of the Spanish Brigade in Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Cuevas also served two terms in NATO Stabilization Force (SFOR)in 1997 and early 2000s, in addition to being a UN Military Observer in the UN Observer Group in Central America (ONUCA) in 1991.
UN Security Council Resolution 1701 ended the 34-day war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, which also reinforced the UNIFIL to conduct peacekeeping missions in south Lebanon.
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