Estrella Cheung, Senior Administrative Officer, will be assigned to the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Geneva to provide administrative and logistics support to Margaret Chan in her election campaign for Director- General of the World Health Organization (WHO), a spokesman for the Health, Welfare and Food Bureau said Wednesday.

The assignment will take effect from Aug. 18 and end upon the completion of the election of the Director-General of WHO.

China announced on July 25 to recommend Margaret Chan, who currently serves as WHO Assistant Director-General for Communicable Diseases, to run for WHO Director-General, a post that will be elected by the Executive Board of WHO in November.

Source: Xinhua