NEW CHIEF ELECTED FOR WORLD SUGAR ORGANISATION
Dominican Alfredo Ricart will take over
as executive director of the International Sugar Organization
(ISO) in mid-April, ISO officer in charge Constantin Politoff
said.
    Previous ISO chief William Miller retired at end-February
last year.
    Ricart told Reuters his first aim is put the "house in order"
by having a new administrative sugar pact with improved
allocations of voting rights and financial contributions.
    Once this is done, time can be dedicated to working towards
a new International Sugar Agreement (ISA) with economic
clauses, he said.
    Ricart, currently the Dominican Republic's ambassador to
Austria, the Netherlands and the UN in Geneva, said he will
visit the four major exporters - Australia, Brazil, Cuba and
the European Community - to talk to governments and producers
and find out about problems that are preventing these countries
finding common ground for a new sugar pact.
 Reuter
