FT: Nobody Took Bulgaria's Candidacy in UNESCO Seriously

Politics » DIPLOMACY | September 24, 2009, Thursday // 10:17
Bulgaria: FT: Nobody Took Bulgaria's Candidacy in UNESCO Seriously

Nobody really took Irina Bokova's candidacy about UNESCO post seriously, the Financial Times wrote on Thursday, citing an EU diplomat in Paris.

Describing the Bulgarian candidate Irina Bokova as a rank outsider, it recalls that she has become the first woman and the first eastern European to lead the agency.

Bokova, 57, emerged to beat Farouk Hosny, Egypt's long-serving culture minister, in the fifth round of a secret ballot after two countries on UNESCO's executive board switched sides at the last minute and backed her.

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