Acting UNSCOL ‘here to get the job done’

United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon, Pernille Dahler Kardel speaks during an interview with The Daily Star in Beirut, Friday, Jan. 26, 2018. (The Daily Star/UNSCOL, HO)

Pernille Dahler Kardel arrived in Lebanon in December to take over as acting United Nations special coordinator for Lebanon just ahead of what will be a crucial few months for the country. “It’s an interesting time to get here, with Lebanon coming out of a crisis and having gained an enormous amount of international support that was expressed at the meeting [of the International Support Group for Lebanon] in Paris in December,” Kardel told The Daily Star in a recent interview at the UNSCOL offices in Yarze.