| Date | 8 October 1999 |
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Agenda item 16
Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections
(a) Election of twenty members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination
Note by the Secretary-General (A/54/400)
The 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/54/400, which contains the nominations by the Economic and Social Council to fill the vacancies in the Committee that will occur as a result of the expiration on 31 December 1999 of the terms of office of Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Cameroon, Congo, Germany, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Italy, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago, Ukraine, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe. Those States are eligible for immediate re-election.
I should like to remind members that, after 1 January 2000, the following States will still be members of the Committee: the Bahamas, Benin, China, Comoros, Egypt, France, Japan, Mexico, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, Uganda, the United States of America, Uruguay and Zambia. Accordingly, those 14 States are not eligible in this election.
I should now like to inform members that the following States have been nominated by the Economic and Social Council. There are four African States for four vacancies: Cameroon, Gabon, Mauritania and Zimbabwe. There are four Asian States for four vacancies: Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan. There are three Eastern European States for three vacancies: Poland, the Republic of Moldova and Ukraine. There are four Latin American and Caribbean States for four vacancies: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and Peru. There are five Western European and other States for five vacancies: Germany, Italy, Portugal, San Marino and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
In accordance with rule 92 of the 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.
The number of States nominated from among the African States, the Asian 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.
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 Asian States, the Eastern European States, the Latin American and Caribbean States and the Western European and other States -- namely, Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, Cuba, Gabon, Germany, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Italy, Mauritania, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, the Republic of Moldova, San Marino, Ukraine, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Zimbabwe -- elected members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination for a three-year term beginning on 1 January 2000?
The President
I congratulate the States that have been elected members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination.
We have thus concluded this stage of our consideration of sub-item (a) of agenda item 16.
