Sigrid Kaag is the highest UN ambassador in Lebanon. She speaks about the relevance of international organizations as the United Nations, for stability in the world.

Sigrid Kaag (born 1961) is a Dutch diplomat working for the United Nations. Since December 2014 she serves as the United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon (UNSCOL). She was head of the joint Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons-United Nations mission for the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons between October 2013 and September 2014. Until her mission in Syria she was employed as Assistant Secretary-General and Assistant Administrator and Director of the Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy of the United Nations Development Programme.

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