CAIRO, October 10 (RIA Novosti) - Libya...

Irina Bokova, Bulgaria"s permanent representative to UNESCO, has been chosen by the body"s executive after five rounds of voting. Her nomination will be put to the UNESCO General Conference on October 15, when she is expected to be confirmed the first woman to head the organization.

"Libya does not agree with the election of a Bulgarian citizen to the post of the UNESCO director general and is planning to stop all cooperation with this organization and pull out from all UNESCO committees," Libya"s JANA news agency quoted Abdelkebir Fakhri, the head of the Libyan General People"s committee on education and scientific research.

Bokova, 57, beat out front-runner Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni, whose candidacy had caused outrage over a comment last year in which he said he would burn any Israeli book he found in Egypt"s Library of Alexandria, Austria"s Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the European commissioner for external relations and European neighborhood policy, and another

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