The United Nations confirmed on Tuesday that it had offered former US president Bill Clinton the job of UN special envoy for tsunami relief and that he had accepted.
"The Secretary General has indeed offered to former US president Bill Clinton the position of his Special Envoy for Tsunami-affected Countries and president Clinton has accepted," a spokesperson for UN Secretary General Kofi Annan said in a brief statement.
"The Secretary General is confident that president Clinton will bring energy, dynamism and focus to the task of sustaining world interest in the vital recovery and reconstruction phase following the tsunami disaster that hit south Asia on December 26," the statement said.
"He (Annan) believes that no one could possibly be better qualified for this task," the statement added.
Annan and Clinton will make a joint appearance later this month to provide more details on Clinton's appointment when the former US leader returns from a visit to the region with former US president George W. Bush.
