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Third term for FAO chief

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NEW DELHI: Jacques Diouf of Senegal was re-elected to a third six-year term as Director-General of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) on Saturday.

Dr. Diouf received 137 votes out of the 165 cast and was the only candidate nominated by the organisation's 189 members.

An inter-governmental organisation, FAO has 188 member countries and one member organisation, the European Community. Belarus has been admitted as the 188th member country.

The election took place on the first day of the biennial governing conference, which will also decide the FAO's budget for 2006-2007 and a major reform proposal tabled by Dr. Diouf.

He was first elected FAO Director-General in November 1993. Before that he was Senegal's Ambassador to the United Nations in New York.

Born on August 1, 1938 in Saint-Louis, Senegal, he holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Social Sciences of the Rural Sector (Agricultural Economics) from the Sorbonne University, Paris, and a Master of Science in Agriculture and Tropical Agronomy from the Ecole Nationale d'Application d'Agronomie Tropicale in Nogent and from the Ecole Nationale d'Agriculture-Grignon, Paris.

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