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Geneva.- The UN agency for migrations chooses his CEO Friday, a position that, except once, has always been occupied by a ] although this may change, since the candidate proposed by Donald Trump generates a controversy .
The election of Ken Isaacs, appointed by Washington at the head of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), is not guaranteed after he made controversial statements about Muslims.
The appointment of the new Director General of IOM also coincides with a period during which the Trump administration has received many UN criticism regarding its ban on immigration to citizens of the United States. Six major Muslim countries and its recent decision to separate migrant children from their parents, an initiative that had to leave because of the strong social pressure in the United States.
Accused of being anti-Muslim and not believing in climate change, Isaacs decided to face criticism and assured AFP that he "did not never "took into account the faith of those in need.
The election is long, said a spokesman for IOM, Leonard Doyle, without specifying why.
The name of the future director of this UN agency, who has always defended the positive nature of migration for the different countries of the world, will only be known at the end of the afternoon said Doyle.
The elected will succeed American William Lacy Swing, who has served two five-year terms at the head of the IOM, an institution of which the United States is one of the main donors.
Isaacs is confronted by two candidates, one from Costa Rica, Laura Thompson, current Deputy Director of IOM, and another from Portugal, António Vitorino, former European Commissioner for Justice.
Since the creation of the agency in 1951, the Dutchman Bastiaan Haveman was in the 1960s the only non-American director.
The election of the leader of IOM by the 172 member states of the organization is by secret ballot and requires two-thirds of the vote.
If no candidate obtains this majority in the first round, other ballots are held. After the third day, only the candidates with the highest number of votes may advance.
It remains to be seen whether the Trump administration candidate will convince many countries, as Sergio Marchi, a former Canadian executive candidate, recalled: "No country has IOM".
Nominated in February Isaacs Former Vice President of oenegé Christian Humanitarian Samaritan Wallet (The Samaritan Bag), has been in the eye of the hurricane since the Washington Post published a series of anti-Muslim comments that were published between 2015 and 2017 on social networks.
In several tweets, which he suppressed after the controversy, Isaacs asserted, among other things, that Qur'anic "orders" commit acts of violence against Muslims and suggested that Christian refugees should to be prioritized over others.
Isaacs regretted his "reckless" comments, and the State Department found it "appropriate" to apologize for his words.
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