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The Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) has announced on 25 October the nomination of Mr. Richard Mann as its new Deputy Director-General. As SPC’s Noumea-based Director, Mr. Mann will oversee the Social Resources Division, which includes human development, public health, statistics and demography programmes, and its support services. Mr. Mann will also have special responsibility for SPC’s relationships with the Government of France and the French territories.
From UNFPA Headquarters in New York, news has come of the retirement since late September of Mr. Satish Mehra, Senior Programme Advisor after many years of dedicated services to the Fund starting almost from its inception in 1969. We wish Mr. Mehra a very healthy, happy and productive retirement!