| Date | 3 November 2005 |
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Agenda item 112
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/50/216)
The President
I welcome you this morning. I know our friends of the Islamic faith are looking forward to this evening and I am particularly grateful for the cookies that were placed on the President's chair by the Syrian delegation.
Pursuant to General Assembly decision 42/450 of 17 December 1987 and upon the nomination by the Economic and Social Council, the Assembly elects the members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination.
The document before the Assembly 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 2005, of the terms of office of Argentina, Armenia, Benin, Brazil, Canada, the Central African Republic, Cuba, Gabon, Germany, India, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Monaco, Nicaragua, Pakistan, the Republic of Moldova, South Africa, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Those States are eligible for immediate re-election.
I should like to remind Members that, after 1 January 2006, the following States will still be members of the Committee: Algeria, the Bahamas, China, the Comoros, France, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, the Republic of Korea, the Russian Federation, the United States of America and Zimbabwe. Therefore, those 14 States are not eligible to run in this election.
I should now like to inform Members that the following States have been nominated by the Economic and Social Council.
The four African States for four vacancies are: Benin, the Central African Republic, Senegal and South Africa. The four Asian States for four vacancies are: India, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Pakistan. The three Eastern European States for three vacancies are: Armenia, Belarus and Bulgaria. The four Latin American and Caribbean States for four vacancies are: Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and Uruguay. The three Western European and other States for five vacancies are: Italy, Portugal and Switzerland. The Council postponed the nomination of the two remaining States to a later date.
In accordance with rule 92 of the rules of procedure, all elections should be held by secret ballot and there shall be no nominations. However, I should like to recall paragraph 16 of General Assembly decision 34/401, whereby the practice of dispensing with the secret ballot for elections to subsidiary organs, when the number of candidates corresponds to the number of seats to be filled, should become standard, unless a delegation specifically requests a vote on a given election.
In the absence of such a request, and I see no indication of such in the Hall, may I take it that the Assembly decides to proceed to the election on the basis of dispensing with the secret ballot?
The President
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 groups.
May I, therefore, take it that the Assembly wishes to declare those States nominated by the 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, Armenia, Belarus, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Central African Republic, Cuba, India, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Italy, Pakistan, Portugal, Senegal, South Africa, Switzerland and Uruguay, elected members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination for a three-year term of office beginning on 1 January 2006?
The President
I congratulate the 18 States that have been elected members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination. Regarding the two remaining vacancies 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.
We have thus concluded this stage of our consideration of sub-item (a) of agenda item 112.
