Wang Xiaojun

Wang Xiaojun (* 1959 ) is a Chinese major general of the People's Liberation Army who was the commander of the UN troops of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) from December 2016 to April 2019 .

Life

Wang joined the People's Liberation Army in 1976 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in communications technology and communications officer from the Nanjing Army Command School . He completed another postgraduate degree in military administration at the Military Science Institute of the People's Liberation Army with a master's degree . After various posts as an officer, he was deployed from 1992 to 1993 as a military observer for the United Nations after the Second Gulf War in Kuwait . In the following period he was again in various posts in China and then from 2003 to 2004 commander of a troop sector of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO).

After a brief assignment within the People's Liberation Army, Wang switched to the military attaché service in 2006 and between 2006 and 2016 was successively as a military attaché at the embassies in Brazil , India , Sweden and most recently in the USA .

On December 8, 2016, Major General Wang, succeeding Major General Muhammad Tayyab Azam from Pakistan , was appointed by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to command the UN troops of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO). In April 1991, on the recommendation of the UN Secretary-General, the UN Security Council decided to monitor the ceasefire in Western Sahara and hold a referendum to choose between integration into the Moroccan state and independence .

Wang is married and has two children.

Web links

• Secretary-General Appoints Major General Wang Xiaojun of China Force Commander, United Nations Mission for Referendum in Western Sahara on the homepage of the United Nations (December 8, 2016)