| Date | 31 October 1995 |
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Agenda item 16
Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections:
(c) Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination: note by the Secretary-General (A/50/209)
The Acting President
In accordance with General Assembly decision 42/450 of 17 December 1987, the Assembly elects the members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination upon their nomination by the Economic and Social Council.
The Assembly has before it document A/50/209, which contains the nominations by the Economic and Social Council to fill the vacancies in the Committee which will occur as a result of the expiration on 31 December 1995 of the terms of office of China, Egypt, Japan, Kenya, Nicaragua, the Republic of Korea and Togo. Those States are eligible for immediate re-election.
I should like to remind members that after 1 January 1996 the following States will still be members of the Committee: Argentina, Bahamas, Belarus, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Comoros, Congo, Cuba, France, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Romania, the Russian Federation, Senegal, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America. Therefore, those 27 States are not eligible in this election.
The following States have been nominated by the Economic and Social Council: three African States for three vacancies -- Egypt, Togo and Zaire; three Asian States for three vacancies -- China, Japan and the Republic of Korea; and one Latin American and Caribbean State for one vacancy -- Uruguay.
The number of States nominated from among the African States, the Asian States, and the Latin America and Caribbean States corresponds to the number of seats to be filled in each of those regions.
In accordance with rule 92 of the General Assembly's rules of procedure, all elections should be held by secret ballot. However, in accordance with paragraph 16 of decision 34/401, the Assembly may, in elections to subsidiary organs, dispense with secret balloting when the number of candidates corresponds to the number of seats to be filled.
Accordingly, may I take it that the Assembly wishes to declare those States nominated by the Economic and Social Council -- namely; China, Japan, Egypt, the Republic of Korea, Togo, Uruguay and Zaire -- elected members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination for a three-year term beginning on 1 January 1996?
The Acting President
I congratulate the States which have been elected members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination.
This concludes our consideration of sub-item (c) of agenda item 16.
