UN Deputy Secretary-General Louise Frechette began a four-day visit to Sierra Leone on Wednesday, the UN Mission in Freetown announced.
She was scheduled to meet President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, the foreign minister and the United Nations Country Team, UNAMSIL reported. Meetings are also scheduled with Vice President Joe Demby, other senior government officials, the diplomatic corps and UN staff.
On Friday, she will meet senior UNAMSIL officials, and representatives of international and local NGOs before heading for Port Loko, 57 km northeast of Freetown. There she is due to visit a demobilisation camp and centres for internally displaced persons. Then, she visits UNAMSIL peacekeepers deployed to Lunsar, 32 km to the east. She leaves the country on Saturday.
In February, the new UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Ruud Lubbers, visited Sierra Leone and its surrounding countries for a first-hand assessment of the problems in the area.
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