UN chief selects Nigerian general to lead Syria inquiry
Saturday 14/September/2019 - 01:36 PM
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has selected a
Nigerian general to lead a UN Board of Inquiry to investigate a series of
attacks on hospitals in Syria’s last opposition stronghold in the northwest.
UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric announced Friday that
the three-member board, which will start work on Sept. 30, will be led by Lt.
Gen. Chikadibia Obiakor and include Janet Lim of Singapore and Maria Santos
Pais of Portugal.
Dujarric said the board will ascertain the facts of
the attacks and not assess blame. Its findings will not be made public, he
said.
Guterres announced the establishment of the board on
Aug. 1 following a series of attacks on hospitals in Idlib in northwest Syria.
