{"id":8036,"date":"2015-03-31T11:33:10","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T11:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seafarersrights.org\/six-candidates-for-position-of-imo-secretary-general\/"},"modified":"2015-03-31T11:33:10","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T11:33:10","slug":"six-candidates-for-position-of-imo-secretary-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seafarersrights.org\/six-candidates-for-position-of-imo-secretary-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Six candidates for position of IMO Secretary-General"},"content":{"rendered":"<div aria-labelledby=\"ctl00_PlaceHolderMain_ctl03_label\">\n<div><span>By the established deadline of 31 March 2015, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has received the nominations of six candidates, nominated by their Governments for the position of Secretary-General of IMO.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The election for the post will be held at the 114th session of the 40-Member strong IMO Council, which meets from 29 June to 3 July 2015. \u00a0The decision of the Council will be submitted to the IMO Assembly, which meets for its 29th session from 23 November to 2 December 2015, for its approval.<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>The nominations received are listed below in alphabetical order by candidates\u2019 surname.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Candidate \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<span><\/span>Government\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span>Mr. Andreas <span>Chrysostomou<\/span><\/span><span><\/span><span>Republic of Cyprus\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Mr. Vitaly <span>Klyuev<\/span><span><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Russian Federation\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Mr. Ki-tack <span>Lim<\/span><span><span><\/span><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Republic of Korea \u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Dr. Maximo Q. <span>Mejia\u200b<\/span>,\u00a0Jr.<span><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Republic of the Philippines\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Mr. Andreas <span>Nordseth<\/span><span><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Kingdom of Denmark\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>Mr. Juvenal <span>Shiundu<\/span><span><\/span>Republic of Kenya\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>The present incumbent, Mr. Koji Sekimizu, ends his four-year term as Secretary-General on 31 December 2015.<\/div>\n<div>\u200b<br \/>\n<\/div>\n<p> \u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imo.org\/MediaCentre\/PressBriefings\/Pages\/09-SG--candidates.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">This post was sourced from IMO Press Briefings: View the original article here.<\/a><\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By the established deadline of 31 March 2015, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has received the nominations of six candidates, nominated by their Governments for the position of Secretary-General of IMO.\u00a0 \u00a0 The election for the post will be held at the 114th session of the 40-Member strong IMO Council, which meets from 29 June <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/seafarersrights.org\/six-candidates-for-position-of-imo-secretary-general\/\">[Read More&hellip;]&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":8037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[127],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-imo-press-briefings","8":"entry","9":"gs-1","10":"gs-odd","11":"gs-even","12":"gs-featured-content-entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - 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