{"id":10762,"date":"2023-04-03T14:15:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/?p=10762"},"modified":"2023-04-03T14:15:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T13:15:54","slug":"candidates-for-secretary-general-of-imo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/candidates-for-secretary-general-of-imo\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates for Secretary-General of IMO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MicrosoftTeams-image-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10763 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MicrosoftTeams-image-22.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MicrosoftTeams-image-22.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MicrosoftTeams-image-22-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MicrosoftTeams-image-22-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/maritimafrica.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/MicrosoftTeams-image-22-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Seven IMO Member States have each nominated a candidate for the post of Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO). The term of the current incumbent, Mr. Kitack Lim of the Republic of Korea, expires on 31 December 2023.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The nominations received by the deadline set for receipt of nominations of 31 March 2023 are listed below in alphabetical order by candidates&#8217; name.\u202f\u202f<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr. Moin Uddin Ahmed (Bangladesh)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr. Suat Hayri Aka (T\u00fcrkiye)\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Mr. Arsenio Antonio Dominguez Velasco (Panama)\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Dr. Cleopatra Doumbia-Henry (Dominica)\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Mrs. Nancy Karigithu (Kenya)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Ms. Minna Kivim\u00e4ki (Finland)<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Mr. Zhang Xiaojie (China)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The IMO Council at its 128th session (December 2022) approved the procedures for holding the election of the Secretary-General at the July 2023 session of the Council (C 129).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The election will take place at IMO Headquarters on Tuesday 18 July.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Following the election in July 2023, the decision of the Council will be submitted to the 33rd session of the Assembly of IMO in late 2023. The Assembly will be invited to approve the appointment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The elected Secretary-General will take office on January 1st, 2024.\u202f\u202f<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source : IMO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven IMO Member States have each nominated a candidate for<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,442],"tags":[1493,2572,1308,31,32,1297,2079,45],"class_list":["post-10762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","tag-africa-en","tag-candidates","tag-international-maritime-organization-imo","tag-maritimafrica","tag-maritime","tag-maritime-industry-en","tag-secretary-general","tag-shipping-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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