South Korea’s Kim Jong-yang has been elected as Interpol’s next president, edging out a longtime veteran of Russia’s security services, Alexander Prokopchuk, who was strongly opposed by the US, Britain and other European nations.
Prokopchuk is a general in the Russian interior ministry and serves as an Interpol vice-president. Interpol’s 94 member states chose Kim at a meeting of their annual congress in Dubai. He will serve until 2020.
Source: The Guardian
Static/Current Takeaways Important For IBPS Clerk Mains Exam 2018:
- Interpol Headquarters: Lyon, France, Motto: “Connecting police for a safer world”.
