"Annan Announces Shortlist Of Six Candidates To Be New UN Development Chief
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Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Tuesday announced a shortlist of six candidates from Asia, Europe and the Middle East to be the new UN development chief, reports The Associated Press.
The six candidates to be called for interviews in the next few weeks are: Fawaz Al Sultan of Kuwait, former president of the Rome-based International Fund for Agricultural Development; Baroness Valerie Amos, leader of Britain's House of Lords and former secretary of state for International Development; Kemal Dervis, a member of the Turkish Parliament and former minister for economic affairs and the treasury and former World Bank vice president; Kaoru Ishikawa, director-general of Japan's Economic Affairs Bureau; Hilde Johnson, Norway's minister for international development; and Ad Melkert, former Netherlands minister of social affairs and former Dutch executive director at the World Bank."
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