| Date | 22 October 1997 |
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Agenda item 16
Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections
(b) Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination
Note by the Secretary-General (A/52/440)
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/52/440, 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 1997 of the terms of office of the Bahamas, Benin, France, Ghana, Mexico, the Russian Federation and the United States of America. Those States are eligible for immediate re-election.
I should like to remind members that, after 1 January 1998, the following States will still be members of the Committee: Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Cameroon, China, the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Germany, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Japan, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, the Republic of Korea, Romania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Uruguay and Zimbabwe.
Therefore, those 25 States are not eligible in this election.
The following States have been nominated by the Economic and Social Council: two African States for two vacancies -- Uganda and Zambia; one Eastern European State for one vacancy -- the Russian Federation; two Latin American and Caribbean States for two vacancies -- the Bahamas and Mexico; two Western European and other States for two vacancies -- the United States of America and France.
As stated in document A/52/440, the Economic and Social Council has postponed to a future session of the Council the nomination of two other members from the Western European and other States for a term beginning on the date of election and expiring on 31 December 1999.
The number of States nominated from among the African States, the Eastern European States, the Latin American and Caribbean States and the Western European and other States is equal to or does not exceed the number of seats to be filled in each of those regions.
In accordance with rule 92 of the rules of procedure, all elections shall 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.
May I therefore take it that the Assembly wishes to declare those States nominated by the Economic and Social Council from among the African States, the Eastern European States, the Latin American and Caribbean States and the Western European and other States -- the Bahamas, France, Mexico, the Russian Federation, Uganda, the United States of America and Zambia -- elected members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination for a three-year term beginning on 1 January 1998?
The Acting President
I congratulate the States that have been elected members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination.
With regard to the two remaining vacancies to be filled from among the Western European and other States, the General Assembly will be in a position to act on them upon the nomination by the Economic and Social Council of two Member States from that region.
I therefore propose that the Assembly keep this sub-item on the agenda of the fifty-second session.
If I hear no objection, I shall take it that the Assembly agrees to that procedure.
The Acting President
We have thus concluded this stage of our consideration of sub-item (b) of agenda item 16.
