WHO ANNOUNCES NOMINEES FOR NEXT DIRECTOR-GENERAL

The World Health Organization (WHO) has released the names of the 13 nominees proposed by member states to replace the late Lee Jong-wook as director-general of the Geneva-based agency.

Fernando Antezana Araníbar, chairman of the WHO's Executive Board, announced the list of nominations. The nominees' curricula vitae will now be circulated among the organization's 192 member states for review.

A list of candidates will be drawn up by the 34-member Executive Board during its meeting in Geneva in November, and those candidates will be interviewed. The board will then choose one candidate by secret ballot and submit that name to the World Health Assembly for a vote.

Lee, who died suddenly in May, two years before the end of his five-year term, was the WHO's sixth director-general.

To see the list of nominees, go to www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=19737&Cr=WHO&Cr1=.