UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres obtained the needed consent to appoint former Slovakian foreign minister Jan Kubis as the new United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL). Kubis would succeed Pernille Dahler Kardel of Denmark, who was assigned on November 2017 as Acting UNSCOL for one year after Sigrid Kaag of the Netherlands concluded her assignment on October 26, 2017. Kubis was Slovakia's foreign minister from 2006 to 2009. He then became executive secretary of UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE). He has also worked with the European Union, the UN and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in duties that have included a stint in central Asia.
