Portal:Current events/2003 July 28
July 28, 2003 (Monday)
- The United Nations Security Council appoints Harri Holkeri to head the temporary civilian administration UNMIK in Kosovo.
- Ambassador Ole Wøhlers Olsen, the Muslim Danish coordinator for the U.S.-led provisional authority in southern Iraq resigns unexpectedly, to be replaced by Sir Hilary Synnott, currently the British High Commissioner to Pakistan. Ambassador Olsen, who had been critical of the lack of support for his reconstruction efforts, declared the British and Danish foreign services had chosen to replace him at that time instead of in October, as earlier planned, stating that he himself had been prepared to continue his work in Basra.[1]
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