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Article: Anti-Semitic remarks cloud Egypt's UNESCO bid.
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- Al Arabiya (Saudi Arabia)
- Article date:
- September 17, 2009
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Summary: Egypt's controversial candidate for UNESCO director general failed to win an absolute majority in a ballot of world envoys on Friday, with the vote now set to head to a third round, a spokesman
Egypt's controversial candidate for UNESCO director general failed to win an absolute majority in a ballot of world envoys on Friday, with the vote now set to head to a third round, a spokesman said.
Envoys to the United Nations cultural organization started voting Thursday for a successor to Japan's Koichiro Matsuura as director general, with the Farouq Hosni, Egypt's culture minister for 22 years, seen as the frontrunner.
One of nine ...