 He was Director of UNPROFOR Civil Affairs at the beginning of the Mission in February 1992, and shortly afterwards became Assistant-Secretary-General of the United Nations when he was made Deputy Chief of Mission of the 50,000-person UN operation in ex-Yugoslavia as well as senior negotiator with all of the Balkan parties.Until the appointment of an SRSG, he was in charge of UNPROFOR’s political, civil, legal and police activities.He remained head of UNPROFOR’s Civil Affairs until early 1994.