First Chinese national chosen to head UN food and agriculture agency, as Beijing pushes for more senior jobs at the world body
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Qu Dongyu has become the first Chinese national to head the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations. The 55-year-old biologist Qu won 108 of the 191 votes cast by member states on June 23, 2019, beating candidates from France and Georgia. Qu has vowed to use his four-year term to put the UN agency on track to meeting his goal of defeating world hunger by 2030. (Photo: AFP / Vincenzo Pinto)