“That Declaration will go down in history as one of the most important documents in the struggle of the international community against apartheid.”
Unless you found a way to keep off the media and cyberspace since Monday, you won’t have missed news of the appointment of Prof Ibrahim Agboola Gambari as Chief Of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari.
Notwithstanding his admittedly rich curriculum vitae, some critics have wondered if the 75-year-old COS’ is not too old for the job. Surely, Gambari himself must have been aware of the challenges ahead and, more importantly, so too President Buhari, who is probably hoping that the career diplomat will be able to bring his decades of diplomacy experience to bear on his new role.
In 1990, Major-General Joseph Garba was President of the UN General Assembly . Garba and Gambari, the former directly, the latter by virtue of his office, received the South African leader’s commendation in a June 22, 1990 statement on racial discrimination while Mandela was Deputy President of the African National Congress to the 641st meeting of the Special Committee Against Apartheid.
Perhaps nobody captured Prof Gambari’s skill, competence and persistence in resolving the Myanmar debacle than Anna Magnusson and Morten B. Pedersen in the 2012 book ‘A Good Office? Twenty Years of UN Mediation in Myanmar’ published for the International Peace Institute . “Some analysts were sceptical at the time of the appointment of an African envoy, citing Myanmar’s deep-seated xenophobia. Others rejected this superficial judgment of credentials, noting that a savvy diplomat and likeable man like Gambari, with simple but polite manners, who listens at length and speaks little, in many ways was a better fit in the Myanmar context than the previous envoy,” they said.
“In May 2006, five months after Gambari took over the mandate, another good-offices visit became possible….The invitation in itself was a minor breakthrough for the Secretary-General’s good offices after a more than two-year hiatus. And the visit exceeded expectations…” the authors said.
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