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US candidate Ken Issacs lost vote to become new head of IOM

Video. US candidate rejected in vote to head UN migration agency

Updated: 29/06/2018 - 19:36 GMT+2

The position of the head of the Inernational Organisation Migration traditionally goes to an American, but Ken Isaacs had expressed xenophobic and anti-Islamic views.

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