After months of delay, the UN labour agency has appointed Trump administration official Sheng Li as its deputy director general, despite Washington's failure to pay its dues for two years.
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) officially announced this week that Li, a high-level official at the US Department of Labor, would fill the post left vacant eight months ago.
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