India, May 20 -- The upcoming UN-Tourism executive council in Spain next week has a new responsibility to ensure the election, the transition period until the General Assembly in November, and the time the newly elected UN-Tourism Secretary-General will take office are covered. A highly conflicted Zurab Pololikashvili should not cover it.

Even after his government officially disqualified him from the election, he published the notice. Still, he instructed his secretariat to include his name in Agenda item 4, Recommendation by the Executive Council to the General Assembly of a nominee for the post of Secretary-General for the period 2026-2029.

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