NEW CHIEF ELECTED FOR WORLD SUGAR ORGANISATION Dominican Alfredo Ricart will take over as executive director of the International Sugar Organization (ISO) in mid-April, ISO officer in charge Constantin Politoff said. Previous ISO chief William Miller retired at end-February last year. Ricart told Reuters his first aim is put the "house in order" by having a new administrative sugar pact with improved allocations of voting rights and financial contributions. Once this is done, time can be dedicated to working towards a new International Sugar Agreement (ISA) with economic clauses, he said. Ricart, currently the Dominican Republic's ambassador to Austria, the Netherlands and the UN in Geneva, said he will visit the four major exporters - Australia, Brazil, Cuba and the European Community - to talk to governments and producers and find out about problems that are preventing these countries finding common ground for a new sugar pact.