THE head of the Yangon office of the United Nations Population Fund, Mr Daniel Baker, will serve as the interim UN resident coordinator in Myanmar until a new appointment is made to replace Mr Charles Petrie, who departed from the country on December 4, a UN source in Yangon said last week.

Mr Petrie had held the post since July 2003.
He was also the resident representative of the United Nations Development Program, as well as the UN Humanitarian Coordinator, a position to which he was appointed in November 2006.

The UN source could not comment last week on when the new resident coordinator would be appointed.

Mr Baker, a United States national, has been working in Yangon since March 2005.