- Former Kyrgyzstan President Roza Otunbayeva has been appointed as the new UN special envoy for Afghanistan.
- Otunbayeva was president of the small Central Asian country — not far from Afghanistan — for almost two years from 2010 to 2011.
- Prior to that, she served a stint as the the UN’s deputy special envoy for the peacekeeping mission in Georgia.
Kyrgyzstan’s first female president named UN envoy to Afghanistan 03.09.2022
