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FILE- In this Wednesday April 28, 2010 file photo, United Nations World Heath Organization Director-General Margaret Chan, left, shakes hands with North Korea's No. 2 leader Kim Yong Nam, before sitting down for a formal meeting in Pyongyang. After leading the World Health Organization for the last decade, Dr. Margaret Chan knows all too well how politics infuses actions at nearly every level of the U.N. agency. As WHO member countries prepare to elect her successor on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 the Associated Press reveals eyebrow-raising details from internal documents that show how she appeased dictators in Turkmenistan and North Korea - and told then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin she'd see to how WHO might hire more Russians. (AP Photo, File)
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FILE - In this Monday July 25, 2016 file photo, World Health Organization Director General Margaret Chan, left, listens as Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, speaks during a meeting at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. After leading the World Health Organization for the last decade, Dr. Margaret Chan knows all too well how politics infuses actions at nearly every level of the U.N. agency. As WHO member countries prepare to elect her successor on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 the Associated Press reveals eyebrow-raising details from internal documents that show how she appeased dictators in Turkmenistan and North Korea _ and told then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin she'd see to how WHO might hire more Russians. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File)
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FILE- In this Thursday, April 28, 2011 file photo, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin right, jokes with WHO Director General Dr Margaret Chan during the World Health Organization meeting on healthy lifestyle in Moscow. After leading the World Health Organization for the last decade, Dr. Margaret Chan knows all too well how politics infuses actions at nearly every level of the U.N. agency. As WHO member countries prepare to elect her successor on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 the Associated Press reveals eyebrow-raising details from internal documents that show how she appeased dictators in Turkmenistan and North Korea - and told then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin she'd see to how WHO might hire more Russians.(AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel, File )
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FILE - In this Wednesday, June 11, 2014 file photo, WHO's Margaret Chan meets with Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan. After leading the World Health Organization for the last decade, Dr. Margaret Chan knows all too well how politics infuses actions at nearly every level of the U.N. agency. As WHO member countries prepare to elect her successor on Tuesday, May 23, 2017, the Associated Press reveals eyebrow-raising details from internal documents that show how she appeased dictators in Turkmenistan and North Korea - and told then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin she'd see to how WHO might hire more Russians. (AP Photo, file)
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FILE - In this Monday, Oct. 13, 2014 file photo, Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with the World Health Organisation Director General Margaret Chan in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence, outside Moscow, Russia. After leading the World Health Organization for the last decade, Dr. Margaret Chan knows all too well how politics infuses actions at nearly every level of the U.N. agency. As WHO member countries prepare to elect her successor on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 the Associated Press reveals eyebrow-raising details from internal documents that show how she appeased dictators in Turkmenistan and North Korea _ and told then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin she'd see to how WHO might hire more Russians.(AP Photo/Vasily Maximov, FIle )
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FILE - In this Wednesday April 28, 2010 file photo, United Nations World Heath Organization Director-General Margaret Chan, left, shakes hands with North Korea's No. 2 leader Kim Yong Nam, before sitting down for a formal meeting in Pyongyang. After leading the World Health Organization for the last decade, Dr. Margaret Chan knows all too well how politics infuses actions at nearly every level of the U.N. agency. As WHO member countries prepare to elect her successor on Tuesday, May 23, 2017 the Associated Press reveals eyebrow-raising details from internal documents that show how she appeased dictators in Turkmenistan and North Korea - and told then-Prime Minister Vladimir Putin she'd see to how WHO might hire more Russians. (AP Photo, file)
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Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Margaret Chan, left, and Assistant Director-General of Health Security Keiji Fukuda, right, confer during a news conference after an emergency meeting at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in this Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi, File)
