Onuma Elected ICAO Council President, First from Asia-Pacific

Tokyo, Nov. 27 (Jiji Press)--Toshiyuki Onuma has been elected the next council president of the International Civil Aviation Organization, becoming the first Japanese to lead the U.N. specialized agency that sets global aviation rules, the Japanese transport ministry said Thursday. Onuma, 56, a former senior deputy director-general of the ministry's Civil Aviation Bureau, is also the first p...