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WHO Director-General Chan Submitted As Applicant For Second Term
The WHO "said on Monday it has received just one application for the U.N. health agency's top post," from China, which submitted Margaret Chan, the current WHO director-general and former Hong Kong health chief, Agence France-Presse reports. "An executive board meeting in Geneva between January 16 and 23 will decide whether to put the name forward to the World Health Assembly in May, which would make the final decision regarding the appointment," the news agency writes (11/21).
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