| Date | 15 November 2007 |
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Agenda item 113
Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections
(a) Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination
Note by the Secretary-General (A/62/77)
The President
Pursuant to General Assembly decision 42/450 of 17 December 1987 and upon nomination by the Economic and Social Council, the Assembly elects the members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination.
The Assembly has before it document A/62/77, 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 2007, of the terms of office of Algeria, China, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya and the Republic of Korea. Those States are eligible for immediate re-election.
I should like to remind members that, after 1 January 2008, the following States will still be members of the Committee: Argentina, Armenia, Belarus, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Central African Republic, the Comoros, Cuba, France, Haiti, India, Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel, Italy, Pakistan, Portugal, the Russian Federation, Senegal, South Africa, Switzerland, Uruguay, the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Zimbabwe. Therefore, those 25 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: the three African States for three vacancies are Kenya, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya and Niger; the three Asian States for three vacancies are Bangladesh, China and the Republic of Korea; and the one Latin American and Caribbean State for one vacancy is Jamaica.
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, 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 and the Latin American and Caribbean States is equal to 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 Economic and Social Council from among the African States, the Asian States and the Latin American and Caribbean States, namely, Bangladesh, China, Jamaica, Kenya, the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the Niger and the Republic of Korea, elected members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination for a three-year term of office beginning on 1 January 2008?
The President
I congratulate the States that have just been elected members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination.
Members will recall that from previous sessions, and as indicated in document A/62/77, there remain two vacancies in the Group of Western European and other States for members whose term of office would begin on the date of election. One term will expire on 31 December 2008 and the other on 31 December 2009. The General Assembly will be in a position to act on those vacancies 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 113.
