Delegates at Interpol conference where Kim Jong Yang named president
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Channel: AP Archive · 2018 · News & Politics
(21 Nov 2018) South Korea's Kim Jong Yang has been elected as Interpol's next president, edging out a longtime veteran of Russia's security services who was strongly opposed by the US, Britain and other European nations. Kim's win means he secured at least two-thirds of votes cast at Interpol's general assembly in Dubai on Wednesday. The White House and its European partners had lobbied against Russian candidate Alexander Prokopchuk's attempts to be named the next president of the policing organisation, saying his election would lead to further Russian abuses of Interpol's red notice system to go after political opponents. Prokopchuk is a general in the Russian Interior Ministry and serves as an Interpol vice president. Kim will serve until 2020, completing the four-year mandate of his predecessor, Meng Hongwei, who was detained in China. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/d9be59144887c2c6b8f36cb2962489cf
