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CEDRIC THORNBERRY Pano Pachna Village 4700 Limassol Cyprus
Tel/Fax +357 524 3541 e-mail
6 Julv 1999
Mr Iqbal Riza Under-Secretary-General personal Office of the Secretary-General United Nations New York
Greetings from Cyprus, where I live, during interim periods when at home - in a wine- making village on a hilltop looking out over the blue Mediterranean, Not a bad base for writing, travelling and treks through the vineyards and our lovely mountains !
They must be exciting days through which you are living at present - the Secretary- General and the Organisation - particularly with the Kosovo operation unfolding. The importance of legitimacy in achieving effectiveness in the affairs of state seems finally to have been appreciated once more.
I would like to say to the Secretary- General, and to yourself, that if you should have need of an old warhorse in any of the complex operational responsibilities that are building up" for the UN in various parts ofther world, well, herelam. Kofi might find that he has need of someone with my kind of experience, who knows the UN ropes rather well, is not too daunted by the precarious conditions under which a mission may have to be conducted, has worked closely with quite a lot of generals and other senior militaries, and whose loyalty lies entirely to the Secretary-General. As I think he would agree, I was rather much a "fieldman"' rather than a "head office man" - that is where I thought I most likely could be of use to him..
When leaving the UN in 1995,1 seem to remember, I was told there would be no problem about my returning - should that occur/- because I left for "abolition qf_post^._ Maybe I should also add that I am extremely fit, and ready for more challenges
With my very best regards to the Secretary-General and yourself, and to Elisabeth, Fred, and Shashi, and all old friends. I attach a two-page cv, to give you some idea of what I've been up to of late. Perhaps you might think of sharing my letter with the Secretary- General? TUE 12IZT THORNBERRY FflCHNfi CYPRUS 33T 3 243341 f . 02
1 CEDRIC THORNBERRY - International lawyer, human rights'advocate, university professor, peacekeeper, journalist: - a former Assistant Secretary- General of the UN (till 1995), with extensive high-level operational, political, administrative, legal and negotiating experience in the multilateral conduct of international affairs
Currently (1995*9):- f Visiting Professor, Department of War Studies, King's College, London, and at the Centre for Defence Studies, University of London f First holder, Tip O'NeiU/Ireland Fund Chair of Peace Studies, University of Ulster, Londonderry (inaugurated by President CUnton) (1997-8) «f Consultant to governments and international organisations on peacekeeping theory and practice, civil-military relations, international human rights' protection 1> Member of directing staff of major multinational NATO/PfP peacekeeping exercises for NATOLANDCENT in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, France, Hungary, Poland t Lecturer at defence ministries, staff colleges, etc., in Europe and the United States (e.g. principal foreign speaker at the 1998 US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Briefing at US Army War College, Carlisle, Pa.; keynote speaker at the 1998 Nordic Governmental Senior Management Peacekeeping course; an invited witness to the UK Parliamentary Defence Committee 1998-9 on NATO's future) f Participant in many missions for the National Democratic Institute of Washington to the countries of the Caucasus and southern Africa, advising on democratic and civic enhancement programmes, and observing and analysing elections there If Visited Indonesia, 1998, for governmental consultations on behalf of an NGO conducting "second track" diplomacy functions regarding East Timor f Witness at the International Criminal Tribunal on Former Yugoslavia at the Hague II One of the London School of Economies' Centenary Public Lecturers (1995) If Author of various articles in the International Herald Tribune, International Peacekeeping, Foreign Policy, Brassey's Defence Annual, etc., on aspects of peacekeeping and peacemaking, human rights, war crimes tribunals. If Completing a book on Namibia's independence process ^f Recipient of an honorary fellowship of the London School of Economics and an honorary doctorate of the Open University of the United Kingdom.
From 1978-1995:- If A senior UN official with extensive exposure to conflict situations in, amongst other places, Beirut, Sarajevo, Mogadishu, In these and other UN field operations was usually in charge of political, civil, legal, police and public information aspects of the mission, as well as its field coordination and, occasionally, its operational planning (e.g. Namibia). Specifically :- f Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Cyprus, participating in the inter-communal negotiations; UN member of the Greek-Turkish Committee on Missing Persons; Political Adviser to UNFICYP (1981-2) TUE 12127 THORNBERRY PflCHNA CYPRUS 357 5 243541 P. 03
2 f Senior Adviser to UNTSO (the UN military observer mission in the Middle East), based mostly in Jerusalem and Beirut, but covering all mission affairs, including contacts with the governments of the Middle East region, 1982-4 f Director of the Office of the Under-Secretary for Administration and Management of the UN (world-wide) 1986-9, 1990-2 ^J Deputy Chief of Missi on, UN Inter- Agency Humanitarian Mission to Kuwait and Iraq, post-Gulf War, March 1991 ^ Coordinating planner, Director of Special Representative's office, UNTAG in Namibia; UN member of the southern Africa Joint Commission of Angola, Cuba, South Africa, US, USSR, 1989-1991 If Head of Civil Affairs, Deputy Chief of Mission, UNPROFOR throughout ex- Yugoslavia (not Slovenia), 1992-4 ^ Conducted a reporting mission for the UN regarding UNOSOM, Somalia, 1994 f In regard to ex-Yugoslavia > UNPRQFQR's principal political negotiator - e.g. created and chaired the Croat/Serb Joint Commission 1992-3, the first such contact after that war; obtained Sarajevo Airport for subsequent humanitarian airlift in 1992 negotiations with the Bosnian Serbs; negotiated between Bosnian Muslims and Croats, then led, the humanitarian relief of Mostar, long besieged, 1993; a principal planner of the UN's first preventive peacekeeping mission in FYROM (Macedonia) 1992-3; helped plan other UN operations in ex- Yugoslavia (and elsewhere). Successfully completed joint planning with NATOAFSOUTH in 1993 in Zagreb and Naples for a possible joint UN/NATO operation throughout ex- Yugoslavia at that time
From 1958-1 978 > ^ Taught international and constitutional law at Cambridge and LSE (1968 - inaugurated the teaching of international human rights' law in British Isles) f Practised as a barrister, mainly in the European Commission and Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, appearing in about SO "European constitutional cases", some of whichA remai iewton i nleading European legal authorities
Amnesty International,, etc., in Europe and southern Africa) f From 1967-74 a Special Correspondent, mostly for The Guardian newspaper, in Greece under the military dictatorship, and later iti Council of Europe proceedings
Born in Belfast; educ. in Ireland, at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and at Gray's Inn, London (Dr.Univ., MA., LL.B., Barrister-at'I-aw). Irish/UK dual nationality by birth. Mainly resident in Cyprus and France. e-ma31