- President of the United Nations General Assembly
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President of the
United Nations General Assembly
Emblem of the United NationsAppointer United Nations General Assembly Term length 1 year Inaugural holder Paul-Henri Spaak Formation 1946 Website List of Presidents of the UN General Assembly The President of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted for by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis.
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Election
A map of the world showing the home countries of Presidents of the United Nations General Assembly up until the 66th (current) session of the General Assembly in 2011-12.
The session of the assembly is scheduled for every year starting in September - any special, or emergency special, assemblies over the next year will be headed by the president of UNGA.
The presidency rotates annually between the five geographic groups: African, Asian, Eastern European, Latin American and Caribbean, and Western European and other States.[1]
Because of their powerful stature globally, some of the largest, most powerful countries have never held the presidency, such as the People's Republic of China, France, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In particular, it is customary that a national of a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council never serves as General Assembly president.
The only country that had a national elected as President of the United Nations General Assembly twice is Argentina; all the other member states had been represented only once by their nationals holding this office.
Reform
Clear and appropriate criteria have been proposed prior to the consideration of candidacies and to establish of an "elections committee" or, alternatively, a search committee.[2] Criteria include:
- Availability to devote full-time attention for many months;
- Political independence;
- Multilateral leadership experience, including negotiation and consensus-building skills and the ability to deal with multiple powerful stakeholders; and
- A thorough understanding of the United Nations Charter.
Other propositions includes presidential voting by citizens of all over the world to elect the UNGA president.
List of presidents
Session Number Year Name of President[3] UN member state Region First 1946 Paul-Henri Spaak 
BelgiumWES First special 1947 Oswaldo Aranha 
BrazilLAS Second 1947 Oswaldo Aranha BrazilLAS Second special 1948 José Arce 
ArgentinaLAS Third 1948 Herbert Vere Evatt 
AustraliaCOS Fourth 1949 Carlos P. Romulo 
PhilippinesEAS Fifth 1950 Nasrollah Entezam 
IranEAS Sixth 1951 Luis Padilla Nervo 
MexicoLAS Seventh 1952 Lester B. Pearson 
CanadaCOS Eighth (First Woman President) 1953 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 
IndiaCOS Ninth 1954 Eelco N. van Kleffens 
NetherlandsWES Tenth 1955 José Maza 
ChileLAS First emergency special 1956 Rudecindo Ortega ChileLAS Second emergency special 1956 Rudecindo Ortega ChileLAS Eleventh 1956 Wan Waithayakon 
ThailandEAS Twelfth 1957 Leslie Munro 
New ZealandCOS Third emergency special 1958 Leslie Munro New ZealandCOS Thirteenth 1958 Charles Habib Malik 
LebanonMES Fourteenth 1959 Víctor Andrés Belaúnde 
PeruLAS Fourth emergency special 1960 Víctor Andrés Belaúnde PeruLAS Fifteenth 1960 Frederick Henry Boland 
IrelandWES Third special 1961 Frederick Henry Boland IrelandWES Sixteenth 1961 Mongi Slim 
TunisiaMES Seventeenth 1962 Muhammad Zafarullah Khan 
PakistanCOS Fourth special 1963 Muhammad Zafarullah Khan PakistanCOS Eighteenth 1963 Carlos Sosa Rodriguez 
VenezuelaLAS Nineteenth 1964 Alex Quaison-Sackey 
GhanaCOS Twentieth 1965 Amintore Fanfani 
ItalyWES Twenty-first 1966 Abdul Rahman Pazhwak 
AfghanistanAsia Fifth special 1967 Abdul Rahman Pazhwak AfghanistanAsia Fifth emergency special 1967 Abdul Rahman Pazhwak AfghanistanAsia Twenty-second 1967 Corneliu Mănescu 
RomaniaEEG Twenty-third 1968 Emilio Arenales Catalan 
GuatemalaGRULAC Twenty-fourth 1969 Angie Elisabeth Brooks 
LiberiaAfrica Twenty-fifth 1970 Edvard Hambro 
NorwayWEOG Twenty-sixth 1971 Adam Malik 
IndonesiaAsia Twenty-seventh 1972 Stanisław Trepczyński 
PolandEEG Twenty-eighth 1973 Leopoldo Benites 
EcuadorGRULAC Sixth special 1974 Leopoldo Benites EcuadorGRULAC Twenty-ninth 1974 Abdelaziz Bouteflika 
AlgeriaAfrica Seventh special 1975 Abdelaziz Bouteflika AlgeriaAfrica Thirtieth 1975 Gaston Thorn 
LuxembourgWEOG Thirty-first 1976 Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe 
Sri LankaAsia Thirty-second 1977 Lazar Mojsov 
SFR YugoslaviaEEG Eighth special 1978 Lazar Mojsov SFR YugoslaviaEEG Ninth special 1978 Lazar Mojsov SFR YugoslaviaEEG Tenth special 1978 Lazar Mojsov SFR YugoslaviaEEG Thirty-third 1978 Indalecio Liévano 
ColombiaGRULAC Thirty-fourth 1979 Salim A. Salim 
TanzaniaAfrica Sixth emergency special 1980 Salim A. Salim TanzaniaAfrica Seventh emergency special 1980 Salim A. Salim TanzaniaAfrica Eleventh special 1980 Salim A. Salim TanzaniaAfrica Thirty-fifth 1980 Rüdiger von Wechmar 
Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)WEOG Eighth emergency special 1981 Rüdiger von Wechmar Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany)WEOG Thirty-sixth 1981 Ismat T. Kittani 
IraqAsia Seventh emergency special - Continuation 1982 Ismat T. Kittani IraqAsia Ninth emergency special 1982 Ismat T. Kittani IraqAsia Twelfth special 1982 Ismat T. Kittani IraqAsia Thirty-seventh 1982 Imre Hollai 
HungaryEEG Thirty-eighth 1983 Jorge E. Illueca 
PanamaGRULAC Thirty-ninth 1984 Paul J. F. Lusaka 
ZambiaAfrica Fortieth 1985 Jaime de Piniés 
SpainWEOG Thirteenth special 1986 Jaime de Piniés SpainWEOG Forty-first 1986 Humayun Rashid Choudhury 
BangladeshAsia Fourteenth special 1986 Humayun Rashid Choudhury BangladeshAsia Forty-second 1987 Peter Florin 
German Democratic Republic (East Germany)EEG Fifteenth special 1988 Peter Florin German Democratic Republic (East Germany)EEG Forty-third 1988 Dante Maria Caputo ArgentinaGRULAC Forty-fourth 1989 Joseph Nanven Garba 
NigeriaAfrica Sixteenth special 1989 Joseph Nanven Garba NigeriaAfrica Seventeenth special 1990 Joseph Nanven Garba NigeriaAfrica Eighteenth special 1990 Joseph Nanven Garba NigeriaAfrica Forty-fifth 1990 Guido de Marco 
MaltaWEOG Forty-sixth 1991 Samir S. Shihabi 
Saudi ArabiaAsia Forty-seventh 1992 Stoyan Ganev 
BulgariaEEG Forty-eighth 1993 Samuel Insanally 
GuyanaGRULAC Forty-ninth 1994 Amara Essy 
Côte d'IvoireAfrica Fiftieth 1995 Diogo Freitas do Amaral 
PortugalWEOG Fifty-first 1996 Razali Ismail 
MalaysiaAsia Tenth emergency special 1997 Razali Ismail MalaysiaAsia Nineteenth special 1997 Razali Ismail MalaysiaAsia Fifty-second 1997 Hennadiy Udovenko 
UkraineEEG Tenth emergency special - Continuation 1998 Hennadiy Udovenko UkraineEEG Twentieth special 1998 Hennadiy Udovenko UkraineEEG Fifty-third 1998 Didier Opertti Badan 
UruguayGRULAC Tenth emergency special - Continuation 1999 Didier Opertti Badan UruguayGRULAC Twenty-first special 1999 Didier Opertti Badan UruguayGRULAC Fifty-fourth 1999 Theo-Ben Gurirab 
NamibiaAfrica Twenty-second special 1999 Theo-Ben Gurirab NamibiaAfrica Twenty-third special 2000 Theo-Ben Gurirab NamibiaAfrica Twenty-fourth special 2000 Theo-Ben Gurirab NamibiaAfrica Fifty-fifth 2000 Harri Holkeri 
FinlandWEOG Tenth emergency special - Continuation 2000 Harri Holkeri FinlandWEOG Twenty-fifth special 2001 Harri Holkeri FinlandWEOG Twenty-sixth special 2001 Harri Holkeri FinlandWEOG Fifty-sixth 2001 Han Seung-soo 
Republic of Korea (South Korea)Asia Fifty-seventh 2002 Jan Kavan 
Czech RepublicEEG Fifty-eighth 2003 Julian Hunte 
Saint LuciaGRULAC Fifty-ninth 2004 Jean Ping 
GabonAfrica Sixtieth 2005 Jan Eliasson 
SwedenWEOG Sixty-first 2006 Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa 
BahrainAsia Sixty-second 2007 Srgjan Asan Kerim 
MacedoniaEEG Sixty-third 2008 Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann 
NicaraguaGRULAC Sixty-fourth 2009 Ali Abdussalam Treki 
LibyaAfrica Sixty-fifth 2010 Joseph Deiss 
SwitzerlandWEOG Sixty-sixth 2011 Nassir Al-Nasser[4] 
QatarAsia Abbreviations:
Pre-1966
- COS - Commonwealth Seat
- EAS - Eastern European and Asian Seat
- LAS - Latin American Seat
- MES - Middle Eastern Seat
- WES - Western European Seat
Since 1966
- Africa - African Group
- Asia - Asian Group
- EEG - Eastern European Group
- GRULAC - Latin American and Caribbean Group
- WEOG - Western European and Others Group
See also
- President of the United Nations Security Council
References
- ^ "UN: About the General Assembly". http://www.un.org/ga/55/bgrdga.htm. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
- ^ "Proposed elections committee". http://www.unelections.org/files/IGP_PGASelectionLetter_18Jan07.pdf. Retrieved 2009-09-16.
- ^ http://www.un.org/en/ga/president/index.shtml
- ^ United Nations document GA/11105
External links
- UN: List of UN General Assembly presidents
- UN General Assembly President Election Reform.
- UNelections.org.
- More news on UN elections and appointments.
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