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UN spokesperson retires; OSCE voice to replace her

By William M. Reilly UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday honored Michele Montas, his retiring spokesperson, as the "real face of the United Nations." Montas delivered her final daily briefing to reporters who gave her a standing round of applause. She was to be replaced by Martin Nesirky, spokesperson for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE),...

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UN spokesperson retires; OSCE voice to replace her

By William M. Reilly UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday honored Michele Montas, his retiring spokesperson, as the "real face of the United Nations." Montas delivered her final daily briefing to reporters who gave her a standing round of applause. She was to be replaced by Martin Nesirky, spokesperson for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE),...

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Briton named UN secretary general's spokesman

New York - Martin Nesirky, a British national and former Reuters correspondent, was Tuesday appointed spokesman for United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. Nesirky will replace Michelle Montas, a former journalist from Haiti, next month. Montas...

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British sport can have its own Berlin Wall moment

I will never forget the night the Berlin Wall fell, exactly 20 years ago on November 9 - because it changed the face of world sport, as well as politics. I was standing in the Reuters newsroom where I worked in the then German capital of Bonn , when my former colleague Martin Nesirky filed an urgent story from East Berlin. The old printer it emerged from went into alarm mode. The story...