Environmental groups have long argued that Mr. Elliott's lobbying of the State Department is a conflict of interest since he served as Mrs. Clinton's deputy national campaign director and chief of delegate selection in 2008.
In politics, Galván held the following positions: head of the Fiscal Office of Tamaulipas in Nuevo Laredo, director of Protección Civil y Bomberos, director and delegate of the Tamaulipas Department of Tourism, member of the Binational Committee of Tourism, and leader of Frente Juvenil.
It was clear, however, said François Carrard, the executive director of the I.O.C., that delegates faced one overriding political issue with regard to Beijing: human rights.
Bourget designated himself spiritual and canonical director of the novitiate, and delegated a priest, the Abbé Antoine Rey, to be Director of the Hospice.
Earlier the East Asia and Pacific Regional Director of UNICEF, Mehr Khan, told delegates of a mixed result in improving the welfare of children in the region.
The South retorted that the proposed chief North Korean delegate — Kang Ji-yong, director of the secretariat of the Committee for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea — was already below Mr. Kim "in status".
Another delegate, Matthew White, director of catering, hotel and conference services at the University of Reading, told Times Higher Education: "One of the first meals they get is breakfast, which is likely to be cereal, milk and bread - all things the Chinese don't really eat.
Not according to Charlie Whiting, the race director, safety delegate and head of the technical department for the International Automobile Federation, the sport's governing body.
"Finger pointing won't serve any purpose; it will take us nowhere," Htin Linn, the acting director of Myanmar's Foreign Affairs Ministry, told delegates at Friday's conference.
