ROME – Six candidates are vying to become the newborn honcho of the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization, including a past EU commissioner, a past Iraqi rector and Spain's past external minister.
The newborn director-general, to be elected late June, module replace Jacques Diouf of Senegal, who has held the function since 1994.
The FAO, the largest U.N. agency, was founded in 1945 to raise nutritional standards and living conditions around the world. Since 2007 — when an autarkical commission institute the authority was inefficient cod to its centralised bureaucracy, broad administrative costs and unclear priorities — the FAO has undergone reforms, including reducing constituent of its chief.
The newborn authority head takes over at the beginning of 2012, remains in charge until July 31, 2015, and is only eligible for one additional four-year term. Diouf has been elected three times for six-year terms.
The candidates are: Franz Fischler of Austria, previously an EU cultivation commissioner; Brazil's Jose Graziano da Silva, supporter general-director at FAO; Indroyono Soesilo, an Indonesian government official; stager Persian diplomat Mohammad Saeed Noori Naeini; Abdul-Latif Jamal Rashid, a past liquid rector for Iraq; and Spain's ex-foreign rector Miguel falls Moratinos.
The newborn honcho module be elected with a eld of votes during the incoming FAO conference, held June 25-July 2 in Rome. Each of FAO's 191 member nations has one balloting and the ballot is secret.
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