By NNN-APP,
United Nations : Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Major-General Major General Kim Moon Hwa as the head of the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), his spokesman Michelle Montas announced Friday.
Maj.-Gen. Kim Gen. Repinc will succeed Major General Dragutin Repinc of Croatia, who ended his two-year mandate to the position earlier this year.
The 55-year-old general served as Deputy Chief Military Observer for the UNMOGIP operation from 1995 to 1997 as part of his extensive military career since joining the Korean Army in 1976.
He attended the Army Staff College and National Defence University in the Republic of Korea, as well as the United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
UNMOGIP was deployed in January 1949 to supervise the ceasefire between India and Pakistan in the State of Jammu and Kashmir. Since 1971 war, the mission monitors the ceasefire called for by the Security Council.
The group is composed of 44 military observers, supported by 21 international civilian personnel and 48 local civilian staff. The military obseerves are drawn from Chile, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Republic of Korea, Sweden and Uruguay.