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Аннотация: WHO's election throws agency into bitter turmoilThis week the executive board of the World Health Organisation will decide who will be the organisation's director general for the next five years.Usually a routine event, this election is throwing the UN's largest agency into turmoil.Battle lines have been drawn behind the two main candidates-the incumbent, Dr Hiroshi Nakajima, and his former deputy, Dr Mohamed Abdelmoumene.The build up to the vote, scheduled for 20 January, has left WHO's staff committee split, the secretariat demoralised, and the Japanese government accused of foul play and abuse of power.In the words of the chairman of WHO's staff committee, Dr Jan Stjernsward, "never before has health been so adversely politicised."There is nothing unusual in the incumbent director general standing for re-election: the last director general, Dr Halfden Mahler, remained in office for three terms.What is unprecedented is the strength of feeling against Dr Nakajima (Dr Mahler's re- election was in each case unopposed) and the ferocity of the lobbying.Last September the United States and the 12 countries of the European Community took the unheard of step of declaring their opposition to Dr Nakajima's re-election, saying that it would not be "in the best interests of the organisation."The Scandinavian countries have now joined the coalition in favour of Dr Abdelmoumene.Japan is the only major in- dustrial nation still supporting Dr Nakajima.Japan's spirited defence of its man is not easily explained.Within the UN Japan is already well represented by the much respected Japanese high commissioner for refugees, Dr Sadako Ogata.Yet reports in the press, confirmed by diplomats at Euro- pean and American missions in Geneva, suggest that the Japanese government has been pressurising the poorer members of the executive board, threatening to withdraw trade agreements unless they vote for Dr Nakajima.The Japanese foreign ministry argues that Dr Nakajima has not been in office long enough for his efforts to bear fruit.The European and American camps in Geneva are anxious that their stance should not appear anti-Japanese.But behind the diplomatic expressions of support for Dr Abdelmoumene there is anger at what they believe is Japan's abuse of power.
Год издания: 1993
Авторы: Simon Connor
Издательство: BMJ
Источник: BMJ
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