The Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General is a department of the

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that provides information to the

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regarding the activities of the U.N. as a whole.

Role

The department is in charge of managing media relations on behalf of: * The Secretary-General of the United Nations * The Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations * Other senior U.N. officials

Officers

Stéphane Dujarric Stéphane Dujarric de la Rivière (born in 1965) is the Spokesman for the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres. He was appointed to this position on 19 February 2014, by the previous Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon. Dujarric had prev ...

– Spokesperson for the Secretary-General * Farhan Haq – Deputy Spokesperson * Florencia Soto Nino – Associate Spokesperson * Shirin Yaseen – Associate Spokesperson * Stephanie Tremblay – Associate Spokesperson * Daniela Gross – Associate Spokesperson

Controversy

In 2012, the official United Nations

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account posted an erroneous tweet, implying that the U.N. Secretary-General supports a

one-state solution The one-state solution, sometimes also called a bi-national state, is a proposed approach to resolving the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, according to which one state must be established between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean. Proponen ...

to the

Israeli–Palestinian conflict The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is one of the world's most enduring conflicts, beginning in the mid-20th century. Various attempts have been made to resolve the conflict as part of the Israeli–Palestinian peace process, alongside other ef ...

. The tweet was later found to have been written by spokesperson Nancy Groves, who attributed it to a "terrible typo". According to

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, the U.N. spokesperson post is considered to be a "dream job", but it requires taking into account the concerns of the 192 nations and "competing for the Secretary-General's attention".

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References

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