Newly elected World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Margaret Chan of China addresses a special session of the World Health Assembly next to outgoing Acting WHO Director-General Anders Nordstrom (L) of Sweden after her election in Geneva November 9, 2006. Chan, the first Chinese national to head a major U.N. agency, was nominated on Wednesday by the WHO's executive board to succeed the late Lee Jong-wook as director-general.
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