The UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced today the appointment of the former Lebanese minister Tarek Mitri, as his new Special Representative and Head of the United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL), to succeed Ian Martin who will complete his assignment on 14 October. Mitri has held several ministerial portfolios with the Government of Lebanon between 2005 and 2011. The UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman, at a UN security Council meeting on Libya, stressed the need to back Mitri and the UNSMIL for the good of Libyan people.