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"  George Clooney has stepped away from his United Nations role. The Hollywood actor has cited personal and professional commitments as the reason behind his decision to quit his role as a &amp;quot;messenger for peace.&amp;quot; UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said that the recently engaged star will no longer promote its peacekeeping drives. &amp;quot;After six years in this role, Mr Clooney feels it is time to retire his official role as messenger of peace,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;The competing demands on their time from their professional and advocacy lives sometimes make it difficult for high-profile individuals to carry out a formal United Nations role.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;Retiring from his UN role will afford him the independence to move forward with this and other personal advocacy projects and activities.&amp;quot; Clooney was recently confirmed to have got engaged to British human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin. The actor was named as a messenger of peace for the UN in 2008, after raising awareness of the displacement of millions of people in Darfur. In 2010, he co-founded the Satellite Sentinel Project to document violence and human rights abuse in the area. He has also traveled to Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of his UN role. Photo credit: WireImage Via Digital Spy "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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