Members of the Food and Agriculture Organization start voting to elect the new head of the United Nation's food agency.
Qu Dongyu from China, one of the candidates for the Director-General position of the FAO , addresses a plenary meeting of the 41st Session of the Conference, at the FAO headquarters in Rome, Saturday, June 22, 2019. The new FAO Director-General will be voted on Sunday.
China has nominated its agricultural deputy minister Qu Dongyu, who, if elected, would be the first person from a Communist country to hold the FAO director-general’s chair. The voting goes on until one candidate has majority support. If no candidate gets that on Sunday, the voting continues on Monday.
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