Appendix I Roster of the (There were 192 Member States as at 31 December 2008.)

Date of Date of Date of Member State admission Member State admission Member State admission Afghanistan 19 Nov. 1946 Democratic Republic Latvia 17 Sep. 1991 4 Albania 14 Dec. 1955 of the Congo 20 Sep. 1960 Lebanon 24 Oct. 1945 Algeria 8 Oct. 1962 Denmark 24 Oct. 1945 17 Oct. 1966 Andorra 28 July 1993 Djibouti 20 Sep. 1977 Liberia 2 Nov. 1945 Angola 1 Dec. 1976 Dominica 18 Dec. 1978 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 14 Dec. 1955 Antigua and Barbuda 11 Nov. 1981 Dominican Republic 24 Oct. 1945 Liechtenstein 18 Sep. 1990 Argentina 24 Oct. 1945 Ecuador 21 Dec. 1945 Lithuania 17 Sep. 1991 5 Armenia 2 Mar. 1992 Egypt 24 Oct. 1945 Luxembourg 24 Oct. 1945 Australia 1 Nov. 1945 El Salvador 24 Oct. 1945 Madagascar 20 Sep. 1960 14 Dec. 1955 Equatorial Guinea 12 Nov. 1968 Malawi 1 Dec. 1964 Azerbaijan 2 Mar. 1992 Eritrea 28 May 1993 Malaysia8 17 Sep. 1957 Bahamas 18 Sep. 1973 Estonia 17 Sep. 1991 Maldives 21 Sep. 1965 Bahrain 21 Sep. 1971 Ethiopia 13 Nov. 1945 Mali 28 Sep. 1960 Bangladesh 17 Sep. 1974 Fiji 13 Oct. 1970 Malta 1 Dec. 1964 Barbados 9 Dec. 1966 Finland 14 Dec. 1955 Marshall Islands 17 Sep. 1991 Belarus1 24 Oct. 1945 France 24 Oct. 1945 Mauritania 27 Oct. 1961 Belgium 27 Dec. 1945 Gabon 20 Sep. 1960 24 Apr. 1968 Belize 25 Sep. 1981 Gambia 21 Sep. 1965 Mexico 7 Nov. 1945 Benin 20 Sep. 1960 Georgia 31 July 1992 Micronesia 6 Bhutan 21 Sep. 1971 Germany 18 Sep. 1973 (Federated States of) 17 Sep. 1991 Bolivia 14 Nov. 1945 Ghana 8 Mar. 1957 Monaco 28 May 1993 Bosnia and Herzegovina2 22 May 1992 Greece 25 Oct. 1945 Mongolia 27 Oct. 1961 2 17 Oct. 1966 Grenada 17 Sep. 1974 Montenegro 28 June 2006 Brazil 24 Oct. 1945 Guatemala 21 Nov. 1945 Morocco 12 Nov. 1956 Brunei Darussalam 21 Sep. 1984 Guinea 12 Dec. 1958 Mozambique 16 Sep. 1975 Bulgaria 14 Dec. 1955 Guinea-Bissau 17 Sep. 1974 Myanmar 19 Apr. 1948 Burkina Faso 20 Sep. 1960 Guyana 20 Sep. 1966 23 Apr. 1990 Burundi 18 Sep. 1962 Haiti 24 Oct. 1945 Nauru 14 Sep. 1999 Cambodia 14 Dec. 1955 Honduras 17 Dec. 1945 Nepal 14 Dec. 1955 Cameroon 20 Sep. 1960 Hungary 14 Dec. 1955 10 Dec. 1945 Canada 9 Nov. 1945 Iceland 19 Nov. 1946 New Zealand 24 Oct. 1945 Cape Verde 16 Sep. 1975 India 30 Oct. 1945 Nicaragua 24 Oct. 1945 Central African Indonesia7 28 Sep. 1950 Niger 20 Sep. 1960 Republic 20 Sep. 1960 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 24 Oct. 1945 Nigeria 7 Oct. 1960 Chad 20 Sep. 1960 Iraq 21 Dec. 1945 Norway 27 Nov. 1945 24 Oct. 1945 Ireland 14 Dec. 1955 Oman 7 Oct. 1971 China 24 Oct. 1945 Israel 11 May 1949 Pakistan 30 Sep. 1947 Colombia 5 Nov. 1945 Italy 14 Dec. 1955 Palau 15 Dec. 1994 Comoros 12 Nov. 1975 Jamaica 18 Sep. 1962 Panama 13 Nov. 1945 Congo 20 Sep. 1960 Japan 18 Dec. 1956 Papua New Guinea 10 Oct. 1975 Costa Rica 2 Nov. 1945 Jordan 14 Dec. 1955 Paraguay 24 Oct. 1945 Côte d’Ivoire 20 Sep. 1960 Kazakhstan 2 Mar. 1992 Peru 31 Oct. 1945 Croatia2 22 May 1992 Kenya 16 Dec. 1963 Philippines 24 Oct. 1945 Cuba 24 Oct. 1945 Kiribati 14 Sep. 1999 Poland 24 Oct. 1945 Cyprus 20 Sep. 1960 Kuwait 14 May 1963 Portugal 14 Dec. 1955 Czech Republic3 19 Jan. 1993 Kyrgyzstan 2 Mar. 1992 Qatar 21 Sep. 1971 Democratic People’s Lao People’s Republic Republic of Korea 17 Sep. 1991 Democratic Republic 14 Dec. 1955 of Korea 17 Sep. 1991

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Date of Date of Date of Member State admission Member State admission Member State admission Republic of Moldova 2 Mar. 1992 Somalia 20 Sep. 1960 Turkmenistan 2 Mar. 1992 Romania 14 Dec. 1955 7 Nov. 1945 Tuvalu 5 Sep. 2000 Russian Federation9 24 Oct. 1945 Spain 14 Dec. 1955 Uganda 25 Oct. 1962 Rwanda 18 Sep. 1962 Sri Lanka 14 Dec. 1955 Ukraine 24 Oct. 1945 Saint Kitts and Nevis 23 Sep. 1983 Sudan 12 Nov. 1956 United Arab Emirates 9 Dec. 1971 Saint Lucia 18 Sep. 1979 Suriname 4 Dec. 1975 United Kingdom Saint Vincent Swaziland 24 Sep. 1968 of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 24 Oct. 1945 and the Grenadines 16 Sep. 1980 Sweden 19 Nov. 1946 Samoa 15 Dec. 1976 United Republic Switzerland 10 Sep. 2002 of Tanzania10 14 Dec. 1961 San Marino 2 Mar. 1992 5 Syrian Arab Republic 24 Oct. 1945 United States Sao Tome and Principe 16 Sep. 1975 Tajikistan 2 Mar. 1992 of America 24 Oct. 1945 Saudi Arabia 24 Oct. 1945 Thailand 16 Dec. 1946 Uruguay 18 Dec. 1945 Senegal 28 Sep. 1960 The former Yugoslav Uzbekistan 2 Mar. 1992 2 2 Serbia 1 Nov. 2000 Republic of Macedonia 8 Apr. 1993 Vanuatu 15 Sep. 1981 Seychelles 21 Sep. 1976 Timor-Leste 27 Sep. 2002 Venezuela Sierra Leone 27 Sep. 1961 Togo 20 Sep. 1960 (Bolivarian Republic of) 15 Nov. 1945 Singapore8 21 Sep. 1965 Tonga 14 Sep. 1999 Viet Nam 20 Sep. 1977 Slovakia3 19 Jan. 1993 Trinidad and Tobago 18 Sep. 1962 Yemen11 30 Sep. 1947 Slovenia2 22 May 1992 Tunisia 12 Nov. 1956 Zambia 1 Dec. 1964 Solomon Islands 19 Sep. 1978 Turkey 24 Oct. 1945 Zimbabwe 25 Aug. 1980

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1 On 19 September 1991, the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic informed the United Nations that it had changed its name to . 2 The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was an original Member of the United Nations, the Charter having been signed on its behalf on 26 June 1945 and ratified 19 October 1945, until its dissolution following the establishment and subsequent admission, as new Members, of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia, the Republic of , The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Republic of Croatia and the Republic of Slovenia were admitted as Mem- bers of the United Nations on 22 May 1992. On 8 April 1993, the General Assembly decided to admit as a Member of the United Nations the state provisionally referred to for all purposes within the United Nations as “The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia”, pending settlement of the difference that had arisen over its name. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was admitted as a Member of the United Nations on 1 November 2000. On 12 February 2003, it informed the United Nations that it had changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro, effective 4 February 2003. In a letter dated 3 June 2006, the President of the Republic of Serbia informed the Secretary-General that the membership of Serbia and Montenegro was being continued by the Republic of Serbia following Montenegro’s declaration of independence from Serbia on 3 June 2006. On 28 June 2006, Montenegro was accepted as a United Nations Member State by the General Assembly. 3 Czechoslovakia, an original Member of the United Nations from 24 October 1945, changed its name to the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic on 20 April 1990. It was dissolved on 1 January 1993 and succeeded by the Czech Republic and Slovakia, both of which became Members of the United Nations on 19 January 1993. 4 The Republic of Zaire informed the United Nations that, effective 17 May 1997, it had changed its name to the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 5 Egypt and Syria, both of which became Members of the United Nations on 24 October 1945, joined together— following a plebiscite held in those countries on 21 February 1958—to form the United Arab Republic. On 13 October 1961, Syria, having resumed its status as an independent State, also resumed its separate membership in the United Nations; it changed its name to the Syrian Arab Republic on 14 September 1971. The United Arab Republic continued as a Member of the United Nations and reverted to the name Egypt on 2 September 1971. 6 Through accession of the German Democratic Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990, the two German States (both of which had become Members of the United Nations on 18 September 1973) united to form one sovereign State. As from that date, the Federal Republic of Germany has acted in the United Nations under the designation Germany. Roster of the United Nations 1653

7 On 20 January 1965, Indonesia informed the Secretary-General that it had decided to withdraw from the United Nations. On 19 September 1966, it notified the Secretary-General of its decision to resume participation in the activities of the United Nations. On 28 September 1966, the General Assembly took note of that decision, and the President invited the representatives of Indonesia to take their seats in the Assembly. 8 On 16 September 1963, Sabah (North Borneo), Sarawak and Singapore joined with the Federation of Malaya (which became a Member of the United Nations on 17 September 1957) to form Malaysia. On 9 August 1965, Singapore became an independent State; on 21 September 1965, it became a Member of the United Nations. 9 The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was an original Member of the United Nations from 24 October 1945. On 24 December 1991, the President of the Russian Federation informed the Secretary-General that the membership of the USSR in all United Nations organs was being continued by the Russian Federation. 10 Tanganyika was admitted to the United Nations on 14 December 1961, Zanzibar on 16 December 1963. Following ratification, on 26 April 1964, of the Articles of Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, the two States became represented as a single Member: the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar; it changed its name to the United Republic of Tanzania on 1 November 1964. 11 Yemen was admitted to the United Nations on 30 September 1947, Democratic Yemen on 14 December 1967. On 22 May 1990, the two countries merged and were thereafter represented as one Member of the United Nations under the designation Yemen. Appendix II Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice Charter of the United Nations

NOTE: The Charter of the United Nations was signed on 26 June The amendment to Article 61, which entered into force on 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations 31 August 1965, enlarges the membership of the Economic Conference on International Organization, and came into and Social Council from 18 to 27. The subsequent amend- force on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the International Court ment to that Article, which entered into force on 24 September of Justice is an integral part of the Charter. 1973, further increases the membership of the Council from Amendments to Articles 23, 27 and 61 of the Charter were 27 to 54. adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 1963 and came The amendment to Article 109, which relates to the first into force on 31 August 1965. A further amendment to Article 61 paragraph of that Article, provides that a General Conference was adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December 1971 of Member States for the purpose of reviewing the Charter may and came into force on 24 September 1973. An amendment to be held at a date and place to be fixed by a two-thirds vote Article 109, adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December of the members of the General Assembly and by a vote of any 1965, came into force on 12 June 1968. nine members (formerly seven) of the Security Council. Para- The amendment to Article 23 enlarges the membership of the graph 3 of Article 109, which deals with the consideration of a Security Council from 11 to 15. The amended Article 27 provides possible review conference during the tenth regular session of that decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall the General Assembly, has been retained in its original form in be made by an affirmative vote of nine members (formerly seven) its reference to a “vote of any seven members of the Security and on all other matters by an affirmative vote of nine members Council”, the paragraph having been acted upon in 1955 by (formerly seven), including the concurring votes of the five per- the General Assembly, at its tenth regular session, and by the manent members of the Security Council. Security Council.

WE THE PEOPLES OF THE UNITED NATIONS full powers found to be in good and due form, have agreed DETERMINED to the present Charter of the United Nations and do hereby to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which establish an international organization to be known as the twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and United Nations. to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and Chapter I women and of nations large and small, and PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the Article 1 obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be maintained, and The Purposes of the United Nations are: 1. To maintain international peace and security, and to to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger that end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention freedom, and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of AND FOR THESE ENDS acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one another of justice and international law, adjustment or settlement of as good neighbours, and international disputes or situations which might lead to a breach to unite our strength to maintain international peace and se- of the peace; curity, and 2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen common interest, and universal peace; to employ international machinery for the promotion of the 3. To achieve international co-operation in solving interna- economic and social advancement of all peoples, tional problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanitarian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for human HAVE RESOLVED TO COMBINE OUR EFFORTS rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction TO ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMS as to race, sex, language or religion; and Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representatives 4. To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhibited their the attainment of these common ends. 1654 Charter of the United Nations 1655

Article 2 expelled from the Organization by the General Assembly upon The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes the recommendation of the Security Council. stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following Principles: Chapter III 1. The Organization is based on the principle of the sovereign ORGANS equality of all its Members. 2. All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights Article 7 and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfil in good faith 1. There are established as the principal organs of the United the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the present Nations: a General Assembly, a Security Council, an Economic Charter. and Social Council, a Trusteeship Council, an International 3. All Members shall settle their international disputes by Court of Justice, and a Secretariat. peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and 2. Such subsidiary organs as may be found necessary may be security, and justice, are not endangered. established in accordance with the present Charter. 4. All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or Article 8 political independence of any state, or in any other manner incon- The United Nations shall place no restrictions on the eligibil- sistent with the Purposes of the United Nations. ity of men and women to participate in any capacity and under 5. All Members shall give the United Nations every assistance conditions of equality in its principal and subsidiary organs. in any action it takes in accordance with the present Charter, and shall refrain from giving assistance to any state against which the Chapter IV United Nations is taking preventive or enforcement action. 6. The Organization shall ensure that states which are not THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY Members of the United Nations act in accordance with these Prin- ciples so far as may be necessary for the maintenance of interna- Composition tional peace and security. Article 9 7. Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are 1. The General Assembly shall consist of all the Members essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall of the United Nations. require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under 2. Each Member shall have not more than five representatives the present Charter; but this principle shall not prejudice the in the General Assembly. application of enforcement measures under Chapter VII. Functions and Powers

Chapter II Article 10 MEMBERSHIP The General Assembly may discuss any questions or any matters within the scope of the present Charter or relating to the powers Article 3 and functions of any organs provided for in the present Charter, The original Members of the United Nations shall be the states and, except as provided in Article 12, may make recommendations which, having participated in the United Nations Conference on to the Members of the United Nations or to the Security Council International Organization at San Francisco or having previously or both on any such questions or matters. signed the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942, sign Article 11 the present Charter and ratify it in accordance with Article 110. 1. The General Assembly may consider the general princi- Article 4 ples of co-operation in the maintenance of international peace 1. Membership in the United Nations is open to all other and security, including the principles governing disarmament and peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the the regulation of armaments, and may make recommendations present Charter and, in the judgment of the Organization, are able with regard to such principles to the Members or to the Security and willing to carry out these obligations. Council or to both. 2. The admission of any such state to membership in the 2. The General Assembly may discuss any questions relating United Nations will be effected by a decision of the General to the maintenance of international peace and security brought Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. before it by any Member of the United Nations, or by the Security Council, or by a state which is not a Member of the United Article 5 Nations in accordance with Article 35, paragraph 2, and, except as A Member of the United Nations against which preventive or provided in Article 12, may make recommendations with regard enforcement action has been taken by the Security Council may to any such questions to the state or states concerned or to the be suspended from the exercise of the rights and privileges of mem- Security Council or to both. Any such question on which action is bership by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the necessary shall be referred to the Security Council by the General Security Council. The exercise of these rights and privileges may Assembly either before or after discussion. be restored by the Security Council. 3. The General Assembly may call the attention of the Security Council to situations which are likely to endanger international Article 6 peace and security. A Member of the United Nations which has persistently vio- 4. The powers of the General Assembly set forth in this Article lated the Principles contained in the present Charter may be shall not limit the general scope of Article 10. 1656 Appendix II

Article 12 Voting 1. While the Security Council is exercising in respect of any Article 18 dispute or situation the functions assigned to it in the present Charter, the General Assembly shall not make any recommenda- 1. Each member of the General Assembly shall have one vote. tion with regard to that dispute or situation unless the Security 2. Decisions of the General Assembly on important questions Council so requests. shall be made by a two-thirds majority of the members present 2. The Secretary-General, with the consent of the Security and voting. These questions shall include: recommendations with Council, shall notify the General Assembly at each session of any respect to the maintenance of international peace and security, the matters relative to the maintenance of international peace and election of the non-permanent members of the Security Council, security which are being dealt with by the Security Council and the election of the members of the Economic and Social Council, shall similarly notify the General Assembly, or the Members of the the election of members of the Trusteeship Council in accordance United Nations if the General Assembly is not in session, immedi- with paragraph 1 (c) of Article 86, the admission of new Members ately the Security Council ceases to deal with such matters. to the United Nations, the suspension of the rights and privileges of membership, the expulsion of Members, questions relating to Article 13 the operation of the trusteeship system, and budgetary questions. 1. The General Assembly shall initiate studies and make 3. Decisions on other questions, including the determination recommendations for the purpose of: of additional categories of questions to be decided by a two thirds a. promoting international co-operation in the political field majority, shall be made by a majority of the members present and and encouraging the progressive development of interna- voting. tional law and its codification; Article 19 b. promoting international co-operation in the economic, social, cultural, educational and health fields, and assist- A Member of the United Nations which is in arrears in the pay- ing in the realization of human rights and fundamen- ment of its financial contributions to the Organization shall have tal freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, no vote in the General Assembly if the amount of its arrears equals language or religion. or exceeds the amount of the contributions due from it for the 2. The further responsibilities, functions and powers of the preceding two full years. The General Assembly may, nevertheless, General Assembly with respect to matters mentioned in para- permit such a Member to vote if it is satisfied that the failure to pay graph 1 (b) above are set forth in Chapters IX and X. is due to conditions beyond the control of the Member. Article 14 Procedure Subject to the provisions of Article 12, the General Assem- Article 20 bly may recommend measures for the peaceful adjustment of any The General Assembly shall meet in regular annual sessions and situation, regardless of origin, which it deems likely to impair the in such special sessions as occasion may require. Special sessions general welfare or friendly relations among nations, including situ- shall be convoked by the Secretary-General at the request of the ations resulting from a violation of the provisions of the present Security Council or of a majority of the Members of the United Charter setting forth the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations. Nations. Article 21 Article 15 The General Assembly shall adopt its own rules of procedure. 1. The General Assembly shall receive and consider annual It shall elect its President for each session. and special reports from the Security Council; these reports shall include an account of the measures that the Security Council Article 22 has decided upon or taken to maintain international peace and The General Assembly may establish such subsidiary organs security. as it deems necessary for the performance of its functions. 2. The General Assembly shall receive and consider reports from the other organs of the United Nations. Chapter V Article 16 THE SECURITY COUNCIL The General Assembly shall perform such functions with respect to the international trusteeship system as are assigned to it Composition under Chapters XII and XIII, including the approval of the trus- 1 teeship agreements for areas not designated as strategic. Article 23 1. The Security Council shall consist of fifteen Members of Article 17 the United Nations. The Republic of China, France, the Union of 1. The General Assembly shall consider and approve the Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain budget of the Organization. and Northern Ireland and the United States of America shall be 2. The expenses of the Organization shall be borne by the permanent members of the Security Council. The General Assem- Members as apportioned by the General Assembly. bly shall elect ten other Members of the United Nations to be non- 3. The General Assembly shall consider and approve any permanent members of the Security Council, due regard being financial and budgetary arrangements with specialized agencies specially paid, in the first instance to the contribution of Members referred to in Article 57 and shall examine the administrative of the United Nations to the maintenance of international peace budgets of such specialized agencies with a view to making rec- and security and to the other purposes of the Organization, and ommendations to the agencies concerned. also to equitable geographical distribution. Charter of the United Nations 1657

2. The non-permanent members of the Security Council shall 3. The Security Council may hold meetings at such places be elected for a term of two years. In the first election of the non- other than the seat of the Organization as in its judgment will permanent members after the increase of the membership of the best facilitate its work. Security Council from eleven to fifteen, two of the four additional Article 29 members shall be chosen for a term of one year. A retiring member shall not be eligible for immediate re-election. The Security Council may establish such subsidiary organs 3. Each member of the Security Council shall have one as it deems necessary for the performance of its functions. representative. Article 30 Functions and Powers The Security Council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, including the method of selecting its President. Article 24 Article 31 1. In order to ensure prompt and effective action by the United Nations, its Members confer on the Security Council Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace the Security Council may participate, without vote, in the discus- and security, and agree that in carrying out its duties under this sion of any question brought before the Security Council whenever responsibility the Security Council acts on their behalf. the latter considers that the interests of that Member are specially 2. In discharging these duties the Security Council shall affected. act in accordance with the Purposes and Principles of the United Article 32 Nations. The specific powers granted to the Security Council for the discharge of these duties are laid down in Chapters VI, VII, Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of VIII and XII. the Security Council or any state which is not a Member of the 3. The Security Council shall submit annual and, when United Nations, if it is a party to a dispute under consideration necessary, special reports to the General Assembly for its con- by the Security Council, shall be invited to participate, with- sideration. out vote, in the discussion relating to the dispute. The Security Council shall lay down such conditions as it deems just for the Article 25 participation of a state which is not a Member of the United The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry Nations. out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter. Chapter VI Article 26 PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES In order to promote the establishment and maintenance of international peace and security with the least diversion for arma- Article 33 ments of the world’s human and economic resources, the Security Council shall be responsible for formulating, with the assistance of 1. The parties to any dispute, the continuance of which is the Military Staff Committee referred to in Article 47, plans to be likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and submitted to the Members of the United Nations for the establish- security, shall, first of all, seek a solution by negotiation, enquiry, ment of a system for the regulation of armaments. mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, resort to regional agencies or arrangements, or other peaceful means of Voting their own choice. 2. The Security Council shall, when it deems necessary, call 2 Article 27 upon the parties to settle their dispute by such means. 1. Each member of the Security Council shall have one Article 34 vote. 2. Decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters The Security Council may investigate any dispute, or any situ- shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members. ation which might lead to international friction or give rise to 3. Decisions of the Security Council on all other matters shall a dispute, in order to determine whether the continuance of the be made by an affirmative vote of nine members including the dispute or situation is likely to endanger the maintenance of concurring votes of the permanent members; provided that, in international peace and security. decisions under Chapter VI, and under paragraph 3 of Article 52, Article 35 a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting. 1. Any Member of the United Nations may bring any dis- Procedure pute, or any situation of the nature referred to in Article 34, to the attention of the Security Council or of the General Article 28 Assembly. 1. The Security Council shall be so organized as to be able 2. A state which is not a Member of the United Nations may to function continuously. Each member of the Security Council bring to the attention of the Security Council or of the General shall for this purpose be represented at all times at the seat of the Assembly any dispute to which it is a party if it accepts in advance, Organization. for the purposes of the dispute, the obligations of pacific settle- 2. The Security Council shall hold periodic meetings at ment provided in the present Charter. which each of its members may, if it so desires, be represented by a 3. The proceedings of the General Assembly in respect of member of the government or by some other specially designated matters brought to its attention under this Article will be subject representative. to the provisions of Articles 11 and 12. 1658 Appendix II

Article 36 inadequate, it may take such action by air, sea or land forces as 1. The Security Council may, at any stage of a dispute of the may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and nature referred to in Article 33 or of a situation of like nature, security. Such action may include demonstrations, blockade, and recommend appropriate procedures or methods of adjustment. other operations by air, sea, or land forces of Members of the 2. The Security Council should take into consideration any United Nations. procedures for the settlement of the dispute which have already Article 43 been adopted by the parties. 1. All Members of the United Nations, in order to contribute 3. In making recommendations under this Article the to the maintenance of international peace and security, under- Security Council should also take into consideration that legal take to make available to the Security Council, on its call and in disputes should as a general rule be referred by the parties to the accordance with a special agreement or agreements, armed forces, International Court of Justice in accordance with the provisions assistance and facilities, including rights of passage, necessary for of the Statute of the Court. the purpose of maintaining international peace and security. Article 37 2. Such agreement or agreements shall govern the numbers 1. Should the parties to a dispute of the nature referred to in and types of forces, their degree of readiness and general location, Article 33 fail to settle it by the means indicated in that Article, and the nature of the facilities and assistance to be provided. they shall refer it to the Security Council. 3. The agreement or agreements shall be negotiated as soon 2. If the Security Council deems that the continuance of the as possible on the initiative of the Security Council. They shall be dispute is in fact likely to endanger the maintenance of interna- concluded between the Security Council and Members or between tional peace and security, it shall decide whether to take action the Security Council and groups of Members and shall be sub- under Article 36 or to recommend such terms of settlement as ject to ratification by the signatory states in accordance with their it may consider appropriate. respective constitutional processes. Article 38 Article 44 Without prejudice to the provisions of Articles 33 to 37, the When the Security Council has decided to use force it shall, be- Security Council may, if all the parties to any dispute so request, fore calling upon a Member not represented on it to provide armed make recommendations to the parties with a view to a pacific forces in fulfilment of the obligations assumed under Article 43, settlement of the dispute. invite that Member, if the Member so desires, to participate in the decisions of the Security Council concerning the employment of Chapter VII contingents of that Member’s armed forces. ACTION WITH RESPECT TO THREATS Article 45 TO THE PEACE, BREACHES OF THE PEACE, In order to enable the United Nations to take urgent military AND ACTS OF AGGRESSION measures, Members shall hold immediately available national air- force contingents for combined international enforcement action. Article 39 The strength and degree of readiness of these contingents and The Security Council shall determine the existence of any plans for their combined action shall be determined, within the threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression and limits laid down in the special agreement or agreements referred shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be to in Article 43, by the Security Council with the assistance of the taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42, to maintain or Military Staff Committee. restore international peace and security. Article 46 Article 40 Plans for the application of armed force shall be made by In order to prevent an aggravation of the situation, the Secu- the Security Council with the assistance of the Military Staff rity Council may, before making the recommendations or decid- Committee. ing upon the measures provided for in Article 39, call upon the Article 47 parties concerned to comply with such provisional measures as it deems necessary or desirable. Such provisional measures shall 1. There shall be established a Military Staff Committee to be without prejudice to the rights, claims or position of the advise and assist the Security Council on all questions relating to parties concerned. The Security Council shall duly take account the Security Council’s military requirements for the maintenance of failure to comply with such provisional measures. of international peace and security, the employment and com- mand of forces placed at its disposal, the regulation of armaments, Article 41 and possible disarmament. The Security Council may decide what measures not involving 2. The Military Staff Committee shall consist of the Chiefs the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to its deci- of Staff of the permanent members of the Security Council or sions, and it may call upon the Members of the United Nations their representatives. Any Member of the United Nations not per- to apply such measures. These may include complete or partial manently represented on the Committee shall be invited by the interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, postal, Committee to be associated with it when the efficient discharge of telegraphic, radio and other means of communication, and the the Committee’s responsibilities requires the participation of that severance of diplomatic relations. Member in its work. 3. The Military Staff Committee shall be responsible under Article 42 the Security Council for the strategic direction of any armed forces Should the Security Council consider that measures pro- placed at the disposal of the Security Council. Questions relating vided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be to the command of such forces shall be worked out subsequently. Charter of the United Nations 1659

4. The Military Staff Committee, with the authorization of under its authority. But no enforcement action shall be taken the Security Council and after consultation with appropriate under regional arrangements or by regional agencies without regional agencies, may establish regional sub-committees. the authorization of the Security Council, with the exception of measures against any enemy state, as defined in paragraph 2 of Article 48 this Article, provided for pursuant to Article 107 or in regional 1. The action required to carry out the decisions of the arrangements directed against renewal of aggressive policy on Security Council for the maintenance of international peace and the part of any such state, until such time as the Organization security shall be taken by all the Members of the United Nations may, on request of the Governments concerned, be charged with or by some of them, as the Security Council may determine. the responsibility for preventing further aggression by such 2. Such decisions shall be carried out by the Members of the a state. United Nations directly and through their action in the appropri- 2. The term enemy state as used in paragraph 1 of this Arti- ate international agencies of which they are members. cle applies to any state which during the Second World War has Article 49 been an enemy of any signatory of the present Charter. The Members of the United Nations shall join in affording Article 54 mutual assistance in carrying out the measures decided upon by The Security Council shall at all times be kept fully informed of the Security Council. activities undertaken or in contemplation under regional arrange- Article 50 ments or by regional agencies for the maintenance of international peace and security. If preventive or enforcement measures against any state are taken by the Security Council, any other state, whether a Member Chapter IX of the United Nations or not, which finds itself confronted with special economic problems arising from the carrying out of those INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC AND measures shall have the right to consult the Security Council with SOCIAL CO-OPERATION regard to a solution of those problems. Article 55 Article 51 With a view to the creation of conditions of stability and well- Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right being which are necessary for peaceful and friendly relations among of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self- against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Coun- determination of peoples, the United Nations shall promote: cil has taken measures necessary to maintain international peace a. higher standards of living, full employment, and condi- and security. Measures taken by Members in the exercise of this tions of economic and social progress and development; right of self-defence shall be immediately reported to the Security b. solutions of international economic, social, health, and Council and shall not in any way affect the authority and respon- related problems; and international cultural and educa- sibility of the Security Council under the present Charter to take tional co-operation; and at any time such action as it deems necessary in order to maintain c. universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and or restore international peace and security. fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion. Chapter VIII Article 56 REGIONAL ARRANGEMENTS All Members pledge themselves to take joint and separate Article 52 action in co-operation with the Organization for the achievement of the purposes set forth in Article 55. 1. Nothing in the present Charter precludes the existence of regional arrangements or agencies for dealing with such matters Article 57 relating to the maintenance of international peace and security as 1. The various specialized agencies, established by intergov- are appropriate for regional action, provided that such arrange- ernmental agreement and having wide international responsibili- ments or agencies and their activities are consistent with the ties, as defined in their basic instruments, in economic, social, Purposes and Principles of the United Nations. cultural, educational, health, and related fields, shall be brought 2. The Members of the United Nations entering into such ar- into relationship with the United Nations in accordance with the rangements or constituting such agencies shall make every effort to provisions of Article 63. achieve pacific settlement of local disputes through such regional 2. Such agencies thus brought into relationship with the arrangements or by such regional agencies before referring them United Nations are hereinafter referred to as specialized to the Security Council. agencies. 3. The Security Council shall encourage the development of pacific settlement of local disputes through such regional arrange- Article 58 ments or by such regional agencies either on the initiative of the The Organization shall make recommendations for the coordi- states concerned or by reference from the Security Council. nation of the policies and activities of the specialized agencies. 4. This Article in no way impairs the application of Articles Article 59 34 and 35. The Organization shall, where appropriate, initiate negotia- Article 53 tions among the states concerned for the creation of any new spe- 1. The Security Council shall, where appropriate, utilize cialized agencies required for the accomplishment of the purposes such regional arrangements or agencies for enforcement action set forth in Article 55. 1660 Appendix II

Article 60 Article 64 Responsibility for the discharge of the functions of the Organi- 1. The Economic and Social Council may take appropriate zation set forth in this Chapter shall be vested in the General steps to obtain regular reports from the specialized agencies. Assembly and, under the authority of the General Assembly, It may make arrangements with the Members of the United in the Economic and Social Council, which shall have for this Nations and with the specialized agencies to obtain reports on purpose the powers set forth in Chapter X. the steps taken to give effect to its own recommendations and to recommendations on matters falling within its competence Chapter X made by the General Assembly. 2. It may communicate its observations on these reports to THE ECONOMIC AND the General Assembly. SOCIAL COUNCIL Article 65 Composition The Economic and Social Council may furnish information to Article 613 the Security Council and shall assist the Security Council upon its request. 1. The Economic and Social Council shall consist of fifty- four Members of the United Nations elected by the General Article 66 Assembly. 1. The Economic and Social Council shall perform such 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, eighteen mem- functions as fall within its competence in connection with the bers of the Economic and Social Council shall be elected each year carrying out of the recommendations of the General Assembly. for a term of three years. A retiring member shall be eligible for 2. It may, with the approval of the General Assembly, per- immediate re-election. form services at the request of Members of the United Nations and 3. At the first election after the increase in the membership at the request of specialized agencies. of the Economic and Social Council from twenty-seven to fifty- 3. It shall perform such other functions as are specified four members, in addition to the members elected in place of the elsewhere in the present Charter or as may be assigned to it by nine members whose term of office expires at the end of that year, the General Assembly. twenty-seven additional members shall be elected. Of these twenty- seven additional members, the term of office of nine members so Voting elected shall expire at the end of one year, and of nine other mem- bers at the end of two years, in accordance with arrangements Article 67 made by the General Assembly. 1. Each member of the Economic and Social Council shall 4. Each member of the Economic and Social Council shall have one vote. have one representative. 2. Decisions of the Economic and Social Council shall be made by a majority of the members present and voting. Functions and Powers Procedure Article 62 1. The Economic and Social Council may make or initiate Article 68 studies and reports with respect to international economic, social, The Economic and Social Council shall set up commissions in cultural, educational, health, and related matters and may make economic and social fields and for the promotion of human rights, recommendations with respect to any such matters to the General and such other commissions as may be required for the perfor- Assembly, to the Members of the United Nations, and to the spe- mance of its functions. cialized agencies concerned. 2. It may make recommendations for the purpose of promot- Article 69 ing respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental The Economic and Social Council shall invite any Member of freedoms for all. the United Nations to participate, without vote, in its delibera- 3. It may prepare draft conventions for submission to the tions on any matter of particular concern to that Member. General Assembly, with respect to matters falling within its com- petence. Article 70 4. It may call, in accordance with the rules prescribed by The Economic and Social Council may make arrangements for the United Nations, international conferences on matters falling representatives of the specialized agencies to participate, without within its competence. vote, in its deliberations and in those of the commissions estab- lished by it, and for its representatives to participate in the de- Article 63 liberations of the specialized agencies. 1. The Economic and Social Council may enter into agree- ments with any of the agencies referred to in Article 57, defining Article 71 the terms on which the agency concerned shall be brought into The Economic and Social Council may make suitable ar- relationship with the United Nations. Such agreements shall be rangements for consultation with non-governmental organiza- subject to approval by the General Assembly. tions which are concerned with matters within its competence. 2. It may co-ordinate the activities of the specialized agencies Such arrangements may be made with international organi- through consultation with and recommendations to such agencies zations and, where appropriate, with national organizations and through recommendations to the General Assembly and to after consultation with the Member of the United Nations the Members of the United Nations. concerned. Charter of the United Nations 1661

Article 72 Article 76 1. The Economic and Social Council shall adopt its own rules The basic objectives of the trusteeship system, in accordance of procedure, including the method of selecting its President. with the Purposes of the United Nations laid down in Article 1 of 2. The Economic and Social Council shall meet as required the present Charter, shall be: in accordance with its rules, which shall include provision for a. to further international peace and security; the convening of meetings on the request of a majority of its b. to promote the political, economic, social, and educational members. advancement of the inhabitants of the trust territories, and their progressive development towards self-government or Chapter XI independence as may be appropriate to the particular cir- DECLARATION REGARDING cumstances of each territory and its peoples and the freely NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES expressed wishes of the peoples concerned, and as may be provided by the terms of each trusteeship agreement; Article 73 c. to encourage respect for human rights and for fundamen- tal freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, Members of the United Nations which have or assume respon- language, or religion, and to encourage recognition of the sibilities for the administration of territories whose peoples have interdependence of the peoples of the world; and not yet attained a full measure of self-government recognize the d. to ensure equal treatment in social, economic, and com- principle that the interests of the inhabitants of these territories mercial matters for all Members of the United Nations are paramount, and accept as a sacred trust the obligation to pro- and their nationals, and also equal treatment for the latter mote to the utmost, within the system of international peace and security established by the present Charter, the well-being of the in the administration of justice, without prejudice to the inhabitants of these territories and, to this end: attainment of the foregoing objectives and subject to the a. to ensure, with due respect for the culture of the peoples provisions of Article 80. concerned, their political, economic, social, and educa- Article 77 tional advancement, their just treatment, and their protec- 1. The trusteeship system shall apply to such territories in tion against abuses; the following categories as may be placed thereunder by means of b. to develop self-government, to take due account of the po- trusteeship agreements: litical aspirations of the peoples, and to assist them in the a. territories now held under mandate; progressive development of their free political institutions, b. territories which may be detached from enemy states as according to the particular circumstances of each territory a result of the Second World War; and and its peoples and their varying stages of advancement; c. territories voluntarily placed under the system by states c. to further international peace and security; responsible for their administration. d. to promote constructive measures of development, to en- 2. It will be a matter for subsequent agreement as to which courage research, and to co-operate with one another and, territories in the foregoing categories will be brought under the when and where appropriate, with specialized international trusteeship system and upon what terms. bodies with a view to the practical achievement of the so- cial, economic, and scientific purposes set forth in this Article 78 Article; and The trusteeship system shall not apply to territories which have e. to transmit regularly to the Secretary-General for informa- become Members of the United Nations, relationship among tion purposes, subject to such limitation as security and which shall be based on respect for the principle of sovereign constitutional considerations may require, statistical and equality. other information of a technical nature relating to eco- nomic, social, and educational conditions in the territories Article 79 for which they are respectively responsible other than those The terms of trusteeship for each territory to be placed under territories to which Chapters XII and XIII apply. the trusteeship system, including any alteration or amendment, Article 74 shall be agreed upon by the states directly concerned, including the mandatory power in the case of territories held under mandate Members of the United Nations also agree that their policy in by a Member of the United Nations, and shall be approved as respect of the territories to which this Chapter applies, no less than provided for in Articles 83 and 85. in respect of their metropolitan areas, must be based on the gen- eral principle of good-neighbourliness, due account being taken Article 80 of the interests and well-being of the rest of the world, in social, 1. Except as may be agreed upon in individual trusteeship economic, and commercial matters. agreements, made under Articles 77, 79 and 81, placing each ter- ritory under the trusteeship system, and until such agreements Chapter XII have been concluded, nothing in this Chapter shall be construed INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEESHIP SYSTEM in or of itself to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any states or any peoples or the terms of existing international instru- Article 75 ments to which Members of the United Nations may respectively The United Nations shall establish under its authority an in- be parties. ternational trusteeship system for the administration and supervi- 2. Paragraph 1 of this Article shall not be interpreted as giv- sion of such territories as may be placed thereunder by subsequent ing grounds for delay or postponement of the negotiation and con- individual agreements. These territories are hereinafter referred to clusion of agreements for placing mandated and other territories as trust territories. under the trusteeship system as provided for in Article 77. 1662 Appendix II

Article 81 Functions and Powers The trusteeship agreement shall in each case include the terms Article 87 under which the trust territory will be administered and designate the authority which will exercise the administration of the trust The General Assembly and, under its authority, the Trusteeship territory. Such authority, hereinafter called the administering Council, in carrying out their functions, may: authority, may be one or more states or the Organization itself. a. consider reports submitted by the administering authority; Article 82 b. accept petitions and examine them in consultation with There may be designated, in any trusteeship agreement, the administering authority; a strategic area or areas which may include part or all of the trust c. provide for periodic visits to the respective trust territories territory to which the agreement applies, without prejudice to any at times agreed upon with the administering authority; special agreement or agreements made under Article 43. and d. take these and other actions in conformity with the terms Article 83 of the trusteeship agreements. 1. All functions of the United Nations relating to strategic areas, including the approval of the terms of the trusteeship agree- Article 88 ments and of their alteration or amendment, shall be exercised The Trusteeship Council shall formulate a questionnaire on the by the Security Council. political, economic, social, and educational advancement of the 2. The basic objectives set forth in Article 76 shall be inhabitants of each trust territory, and the administering author- applicable to the people of each strategic area. ity for each trust territory within the competence of the General 3. The Security Council shall, subject to the provisions of the Assembly shall make an annual report to the General Assembly trusteeship agreements and without prejudice to security consid- upon the basis of such questionnaire. erations, avail itself of the assistance of the Trusteeship Council to perform those functions of the United Nations under the trustee- Voting ship system relating to political, economic, social, and educational Article 89 matters in the strategic areas. 1. Each member of the Trusteeship Council shall have one Article 84 vote. It shall be the duty of the administering authority to ensure 2. Decisions of the Trusteeship Council shall be made by that the trust territory shall play its part in the maintenance of a majority of the members present and voting. international peace and security. To this end the administering authority may make use of volunteer forces, facilities, and as- Procedure sistance from the trust territory in carrying out the obligations Article 90 towards the Security Council undertaken in this regard by the administering authority, as well as for local defence and the main- 1. The Trusteeship Council shall adopt its own rules of tenance of law and order within the trust territory. procedure, including the method of selecting its President. 2. The Trusteeship Council shall meet as required in accord- Article 85 ance with its rules, which shall include provision for the convening 1. The functions of the United Nations with regard to trustee- of meetings on the request of a majority of its members. ship agreements for all areas not designated as strategic, including the Article 91 approval of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and of their al- teration or amendment, shall be exercised by the General Assembly. The Trusteeship Council shall, when appropriate, avail itself 2. The Trusteeship Council, operating under the authority of of the assistance of the Economic and Social Council and of the the General Assembly, shall assist the General Assembly in carry- specialized agencies in regard to matters with which they are ing out these functions. respectively concerned.

Chapter XIII Chapter XIV THE TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

Composition Article 92 Article 86 The International Court of Justice shall be the principal judi- 1. The Trusteeship Council shall consist of the following cial organ of the United Nations. It shall function in accordance Members of the United Nations: with the annexed Statute, which is based upon the Statute of the a. those Members administering trust territories; Permanent Court of International Justice and forms an integral b. such of those Members mentioned by name in Article 23 part of the present Charter. as are not administering trust territories; and c. as many other Members elected for three-year terms by the Article 93 General Assembly as may be necessary to ensure that the total 1. All Members of the United Nations are ipso facto parties number of members of the Trusteeship Council is equally di- to the Statute of the International Court of Justice. vided between those Members of the United Nations which 2. A state which is not a Member of the United Nations may administer trust territories and those which do not. become a party to the Statute of the International Court of Justice 2. Each member of the Trusteeship Council shall designate on conditions to be determined in each case by the General one specially qualified person to represent it therein. Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. Charter of the United Nations 1663

Article 94 2. Appropriate staffs shall be permanently assigned to the 1. Each Member of the United Nations undertakes to comply Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, and, as with the decision of the International Court of Justice in any case required, to other organs of the United Nations. These staffs shall form a part of the Secretariat. to which it is a party. 3. The paramount consideration in the employment of the 2. If any party to a case fails to perform the obligations staff and in the determination of the conditions of service shall be incumbent upon it under a judgment rendered by the Court, the the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, com- other party may have recourse to the Security Council, which may, petence, and integrity. Due regard shall be paid to the importance if it deems necessary, make recommendations or decide upon mea- of recruiting the staff on as wide a geographical basis as possible. sures to be taken to give effect to the judgment. Article 95 Chapter XVI Nothing in the present Charter shall prevent Members of the MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS United Nations from entrusting the solution of their differences to other tribunals by virtue of agreements already in existence or Article 102 which may be concluded in the future. 1. Every treaty and every international agreement entered Article 96 into by any Member of the United Nations after the present Char- ter comes into force shall as soon as possible be registered with the 1. The General Assembly or the Security Council may request Secretariat and published by it. the International Court of Justice to give an advisory opinion on 2. No party to any such treaty or international agreement any legal question. which has not been registered in accordance with the provisions 2. Other organs of the United Nations and specialized of paragraph 1 of this Article may invoke that treaty or agreement agencies, which may at any time be so authorized by the General before any organ of the United Nations. Assembly, may also request advisory opinions of the Court on legal questions arising within the scope of their activities. Article 103 In the event of a conflict between the obligations of the Mem- Chapter XV bers of the United Nations under the present Charter and their THE SECRETARIAT obligations under any other international agreement, their obliga- tions under the present Charter shall prevail. Article 97 Article 104 The Secretariat shall comprise a Secretary-General and such The Organization shall enjoy in the territory of each of its staff as the Organization may require. The Secretary-General shall Members such legal capacity as may be necessary for the exercise be appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of its functions and the fulfilment of its purposes. of the Security Council. He shall be the chief administrative officer of the Organization. Article 105 1. The Organization shall enjoy in the territory of each of its Article 98 Members such privileges and immunities as are necessary for the The Secretary-General shall act in that capacity in all meetings fulfilment of its purposes. of the General Assembly, of the Security Council, of the Economic 2. Representatives of the Members of the United Nations and and Social Council, and of the Trusteeship Council, and shall per- officials of the Organization shall similarly enjoy such privileges form such other functions as are entrusted to him by these organs. and immunities as are necessary for the independent exercise of The Secretary-General shall make an annual report to the General their functions in connection with the Organization. Assembly on the work of the Organization. 3. The General Assembly may make recommendations with Article 99 a view to determining the details of the application of paragraphs 1 and 2 of this Article or may propose conventions to the Members The Secretary-General may bring to the attention of the of the United Nations for this purpose. Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten the maintenance of international peace and security. Chapter XVII Article 100 TRANSITIONAL SECURITY 1. In the performance of their duties the Secretary-General and ARRANGEMENTS the staff shall not seek or receive instructions from any government or from any other authority external to the Organization. They shall Article 106 refrain from any action which might reflect on their position as Pending the coming into force of such special agreements international officials responsible only to the Organization. referred to in Article 43 as in the opinion of the Security Council 2. Each Member of the United Nations undertakes to respect enable it to begin the exercise of its responsibilities under Arti- the exclusively international character of the responsibilities of the cle 42, the parties to the Four-Nation Declaration, signed at Secretary-General and the staff and not to seek to influence them Moscow, 30 October 1943, and France, shall, in accordance with in the discharge of their responsibilities. the provisions of paragraph 5 of that Declaration, consult with one another and as occasion requires with other Members of the Article 101 United Nations with a view to such joint action on behalf of the 1. The staff shall be appointed by the Secretary-General Organization as may be necessary for the purpose of maintaining under regulations established by the General Assembly. international peace and security. 1664 Appendix II

Article 107 Chapter XIX Nothing in the present Charter shall invalidate or preclude RATIFICATION AND SIGNATURE action, in relation to any state which during the Second World War has been an enemy of any signatory to the present Charter, Article 110 taken or authorized as a result of that war by the Governments 1. The present Charter shall be ratified by the signatory having responsibility for such action. states in accordance with their respective constitutional pro- cesses. Chapter XVIII 2. The ratifications shall be deposited with the Government AMENDMENTS of the United States of America, which shall notify all the signatory states of each deposit as well as the Secretary-General Article 108 of the Organization when he has been appointed. Amendments to the present Charter shall come into force for 3. The present Charter shall come into force upon the all Members of the United Nations when they have been adopted deposit of ratifications by the Republic of China, France, the by a vote of two thirds of the members of the General Assembly Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States processes by two thirds of the Members of the United Nations, of America, and by a majority of the other signatory states. including all the permanent members of the Security Council. A protocol of the ratifications deposited shall thereupon be Article 109 4 drawn up by the Government of the United States of America which shall communicate copies thereof to all the signatory 1. A General Conference of the Members of the United states. Nations for the purpose of reviewing the present Charter may be held at a date and place to be fixed by a two-thirds vote of 4. The states signatory to the present Charter which ratify the members of the General Assembly and by a vote of any nine it after it has come into force will become original Members of members of the Security Council. Each Member of the United the United Nations on the date of the deposit of their respective Nations shall have one vote in the conference. ratifications. 2. Any alteration of the present Charter recommended by Article 111 a two-thirds vote of the conference shall take effect when ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional processes by The present Charter, of which the Chinese, French, Russian, two thirds of the Members of the United Nations including all English, and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall remain the permanent members of the Security Council. deposited in the archives of the Government of the United 3. If such a conference has not been held before the tenth States of America. Duly certified copies thereof shall be trans- annual session of the General Assembly following the coming into mitted by that Government to the Governments of the other force of the present Charter, the proposal to call such a confer- signatory states. ence shall be placed on the agenda of that session of the General In faith whereof the representatives of the Governments Assembly, and the conference shall be held if so decided by a of the United Nations have signed the present Charter. majority vote of the members of the General Assembly and by a Done at the city of San Francisco the twenty-sixth day of vote of any seven members of the Security Council. June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five.

Notes

1 Amended text of Article 23, which came into force on 31 August 1965. The text of Article 23 before it was amended read as follows: 1. The Security Council shall consist of eleven Members of the United Nations. The Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America shall be permanent members of the Security Council. The General Assembly shall elect six other Members of the United Nations to be non-permanent members of the Security Council, due regard being specially paid in the first instance to the contributions of Members of the United Nations to the maintenance of international peace and security and to the other purposes of the Organization, and also to equitable geographical distribution. 2. The non-permanent members of the Security Council shall be elected for a term of two years. In the first election of the non-permanent members, however, three shall be chosen for a term of one year. A retiring member shall not be eligible for immediate re-election. 3. Each member of the Security Council shall have one representative. 2 Amended text of Article 27, which came into force on 31 August 1965. The text of Article 27 before it was amended read as follows: 1. Each member of the Security Council shall have one vote. 2. Decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of seven members. Charter of the United Nations 1665

3. Decisions of the Security Council on all other matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of seven members including the concurring votes of the permanent members; provided that, in decisions under Chapter VI, and under paragraph 3 of Article 52, a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting. 3 Amended text of Article 61, which came into force on 24 September 1973. The text of Article 61 as previously amended on 31 August 1965 read as follows: 1. The Economic and Social Council shall consist of twenty-seven Members of the United Nations elected by the General Assembly. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, nine members of the Economic and Social Council shall be elected each year for a term of three years. A retiring member shall be eligible for immediate re-election. 3. At the first election after the increase in the membership of the Economic and Social Council from eighteen to twenty-seven members, in addition to the members elected in place of the six members whose term of office expires at the end of that year, nine additional members shall be elected. Of these nine additional members, the term of office of three members so elected shall expire at the end of one year, and of three other members at the end of two years, in accordance with arrangements made by the General Assembly. 4. Each member of the Economic and Social Council shall have one representative. 4 Amended text of Article 109, which came into force on 12 June 1968. The text of Article 109 before it was amended read as follows: 1. A General Conference of the Members of the United Nations for the purpose of reviewing the present Charter may be held at a date and place to be fixed by a two-thirds vote of the members of the General Assembly and by a vote of any seven members of the Security Council. Each Member of the United Nations shall have one vote in the conference. 2. Any alteration of the present Charter recommended by a two-thirds vote of the conference shall take effect when ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional processes by two thirds of the Members of the United Nations including all the permanent members of the Security Council. 3. If such a conference has not been held before the tenth annual session of the General Assembly following the coming into force of the present Charter, the proposal to call such a conference shall be placed on the agenda of that session of the General Assembly, and the conference shall be held if so decided by a majority vote of the members of the General Assembly and by a vote of any seven members of the Security Council. Statute of the International Court of Justice

Article 1 and schools of law, and its national academies and national The International Court of Justice established by the Charter sections of international academies devoted to the study of law. of the United Nations as the principal judicial organ of the United Article 7 Nations shall be constituted and shall function in accordance 1. The Secretary-General shall prepare a list in alphabetical with the provisions of the present Statute. order of all the persons thus nominated. Save as provided in Article 12, paragraph 2, these shall be the only persons eligible. Chapter I 2. The Secretary-General shall submit this list to the ORGANIZATION OF THE COURT General Assembly and to the Security Council.

Article 2 Article 8 The Court shall be composed of a body of independent judges, The General Assembly and the Security Council shall proceed elected regardless of their nationality from among persons of independently of one another to elect the members of the Court. high moral character, who possess the qualifications required in Article 9 their respective countries for appointment to the highest judicial offices, or are jurisconsults of recognized competence in interna- At every election, the electors shall bear in mind not only that tional law. the persons to be elected should individually possess the qualifica- tions required, but also that in the body as a whole the representa- Article 3 tion of the main forms of civilization and of the principal legal 1. The Court shall consist of fifteen members, no two of systems of the world should be assured. whom may be nationals of the same state. Article 10 2. A person who for the purposes of membership in the Court could be regarded as a national of more than one state shall be 1. Those candidates who obtain an absolute majority of votes deemed to be a national of the one in which he ordinarily exercises in the General Assembly and in the Security Council shall be civil and political rights. considered as elected. 2. Any vote of the Security Council, whether for the election Article 4 of judges or for the appointment of members of the conference 1. The members of the Court shall be elected by the General envisaged in Article 12, shall be taken without any distinction Assembly and by the Security Council from a list of persons between permanent and non-permanent members of the Security nominated by the national groups in the Permanent Court of Council. Arbitration, in accordance with the following provisions. 3. In the event of more than one national of the same state 2. In the case of Members of the United Nations not repre- obtaining an absolute majority of the votes both of the General sented in the Permanent Court of Arbitration, candidates shall be Assembly and of the Security Council, the eldest of these only shall nominated by national groups appointed for this purpose by their be considered as elected. governments under the same conditions as those prescribed for Article 11 members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration by Article 44 of the Convention of of 1907 for the pacific settlement If, after the first meeting held for the purpose of the election, of international disputes. one or more seats remain to be filled, a second and, if necessary, 3. The conditions under which a state which is a party to a third meeting shall take place. the present Statute but is not a Member of the United Nations Article 12 may participate in electing the members of the Court shall, in the absence of a special agreement, be laid down by the General 1. If, after the third meeting, one or more seats still remain Assembly upon recommendation of the Security Council. unfilled, a joint conference consisting of six members, three ap- pointed by the General Assembly and three by the Security Coun- Article 5 cil, may be formed at any time at the request of either the General 1. At least three months before the date of the election, the Assembly or the Security Council, for the purpose of choosing by Secretary-General of the United Nations shall address a written the vote of an absolute majority one name for each seat still vacant, request to the members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration to submit to the General Assembly and the Security Council for belonging to the states which are parties to the present Statute, and their respective acceptance. to the members of the national groups appointed under Article 4, 2. If the joint conference is unanimously agreed upon any paragraph 2, inviting them to undertake, within a given time, by person who fulfils the required conditions, he may be included in national groups, the nomination of persons in a position to accept its list, even though he was not included in the list of nominations the duties of a member of the Court. referred to in Article 7. 2. No group may nominate more than four persons, not more 3. If the joint conference is satisfied that it will not be suc- than two of whom shall be of their own nationality. In no case may cessful in procuring an election, those members of the Court who the number of candidates nominated by a group be more than have already been elected shall, within a period to be fixed by the double the number of seats to be filled. Security Council, proceed to fill the vacant seats by selection from among those candidates who have obtained votes either in the Article 6 General Assembly or in the Security Council. Before making these nominations, each national group is recom- 4. In the event of an equality of votes among the judges, mended to consult its highest court of justice, its legal faculties the eldest judge shall have a casting vote. 1666 Statute of the International Court of Justice 1667

Article 13 Article 21 1. The members of the Court shall be elected for nine years 1. The Court shall elect its President and Vice-President for and may be re-elected; provided, however, that of the judges three years; they may be re-elected. elected at the first election, the terms of five judges shall expire at 2. The Court shall appoint its Registrar and may provide for the end of three years and the terms of five more judges shall expire the appointment of such other officers as may be necessary. at the end of six years. 2. The judges whose terms are to expire at the end of the Article 22 above-mentioned initial periods of three and six years shall be 1. The seat of the Court shall be established at The Hague. chosen by lot to be drawn by the Secretary-General immediately This, however, shall not prevent the Court from sitting and after the first election has been completed. exercising its functions elsewhere whenever the Court considers 3. The members of the Court shall continue to discharge their it desirable. duties until their places have been filled. Though replaced, they 2. The President and the Registrar shall reside at the seat of shall finish any cases which they may have begun. the Court. 4. In the case of the resignation of a member of the Court, Article 23 the resignation shall be addressed to the President of the Court for transmission to the Secretary-General. This last notification 1. The Court shall remain permanently in session, except makes the place vacant. during the judicial vacations, the dates and duration of which shall be fixed by the Court. Article 14 2. Members of the Court are entitled to periodic leave, the Vacancies shall be filled by the same method as that laid dates and duration of which shall be fixed by the Court, having down for the first election, subject to the following provision: the in mind the distance between The Hague and the home of each Secretary-General shall, within one month of the occurrence judge. of the vacancy, proceed to issue the invitations provided for in 3. Members of the Court shall be bound, unless they are Article 5, and the date of the election shall be fixed by the Security on leave or prevented from attending by illness or other serious Council. reasons duly explained to the President, to hold themselves per- manently at the disposal of the Court. Article 15 Article 24 A member of the Court elected to replace a member whose term of office has not expired shall hold office for the remainder 1. If, for some special reason, a member of the Court consid- of his predecessor’s term. ers that he should not take part in the decision of a particular case, he shall so inform the President. Article 16 2. If the President considers that for some special reason one 1. No member of the Court may exercise any political or of the members of the Court should not sit in a particular case, administrative function, or engage in any other occupation of he shall give him notice accordingly. a professional nature. 3. If in any such case the member of the Court and the 2. Any doubt on this point shall be settled by the decision President disagree, the matter shall be settled by the decision of the Court. of the Court. Article 17 Article 25 1. No member of the Court may act as agent, counsel, 1. The full Court shall sit except when it is expressly provided or advocate in any case. otherwise in the present Statute. 2. No member may participate in the decision of any case in 2. Subject to the condition that the number of judges availa- which he has previously taken part as agent, counsel, or advocate ble to constitute the Court is not thereby reduced below eleven, the for one of the parties, or as a member of a national or international Rules of the Court may provide for allowing one or more judges, court, or of a commission of enquiry, or in any other capacity. according to circumstances and in rotation, to be dispensed from 3. Any doubt on this point shall be settled by the decision sitting. of the Court. 3. A quorum of nine judges shall suffice to constitute the Court. Article 18 1. No member of the Court can be dismissed unless, in the Article 26 unanimous opinion of the other members, he has ceased to fulfil 1. The Court may from time to time form one or more cham- the required conditions. bers, composed of three or more judges as the Court may deter- 2. Formal notification thereof shall be made to the Secretary- mine, for dealing with particular categories of cases; for example, General by the Registrar. labour cases and cases relating to transit and communications. 3. This notification makes the place vacant. 2. The Court may at any time form a chamber for dealing with a particular case. The number of judges to constitute such Article 19 a chamber shall be determined by the Court with the approval The members of the Court, when engaged on the business of of the parties. the Court, shall enjoy diplomatic privileges and immunities. 3. Cases shall be heard and determined by the chambers provided for in this Article if the parties so request. Article 20 Every member of the Court shall, before taking up his duties, Article 27 make a solemn declaration in open court that he will exercise his A judgment given by any of the chambers provided for in powers impartially and conscientiously. 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Article 28 8. The above salaries, allowances, and compensation shall The chambers provided for in Articles 26 and 29 may, with the be free of all taxation. consent of the parties, sit and exercise their functions elsewhere Article 33 than at The Hague. The expenses of the Court shall be borne by the United Nations Article 29 in such a manner as shall be decided by the General Assembly. With a view to the speedy dispatch of business, the Court shall form annually a chamber composed of five judges which, at the Chapter II request of the parties, may hear and determine cases by summary COMPETENCE OF THE COURT procedure. In addition, two judges shall be selected for the purpose of replacing judges who find it impossible to sit. Article 34 Article 30 1. Only states may be parties in cases before the Court. 2. The Court, subject to and in conformity with its Rules, 1. The Court shall frame rules for carrying out its functions. may request of public international organizations information In particular, it shall lay down rules of procedure. relevant to cases before it, and shall receive such information 2. The Rules of the Court may provide for assessors to sit with presented by such organizations on their own initiative. the Court or with any of its chambers, without the right to vote. 3. Whenever the construction of the constituent instru- Article 31 ment of a public international organization or of an international 1. Judges of the nationality of each of the parties shall convention adopted thereunder is in question in a case before retain their right to sit in the case before the Court. the Court, the Registrar shall so notify the public international 2. If the Court includes upon the Bench a judge of the organization concerned and shall communicate to it copies of all nationality of one of the parties, any other party may choose the written proceedings. a person to sit as judge. Such person shall be chosen preferably Article 35 from among those persons who have been nominated as candi- dates as provided in Articles 4 and 5. 1. The Court shall be open to the states parties to the present 3. If the Court includes upon the Bench no judge of the Statute. nationality of the parties, each of these parties may proceed to 2. The conditions under which the Court shall be open to choose a judge as provided in paragraph 2 of this Article. other states shall, subject to the special provisions contained in 4. The provisions of this Article shall apply to the case of treaties in force, be laid down by the Security Council, but in no Articles 26 and 29. In such cases, the President shall request one or, case shall such conditions place the parties in a position of inequal- if necessary, two of the members of the Court forming the cham- ity before the Court. ber to give place to the members of the Court of the nationality of 3. When a state which is not a Member of the United the parties concerned, and, failing such, or if they are unable to be Nations is a party to a case, the Court shall fix the amount which present, to the judges specially chosen by the parties. that party is to contribute towards the expenses of the Court. 5. Should there be several parties in the same interest, they This provision shall not apply if such state is bearing a share of shall, for the purpose of the preceding provisions, be reckoned as the expenses of the Court. one party only. Any doubt upon this point shall be settled by the Article 36 decision of the Court. 6. Judges chosen as laid down in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of this 1. The jurisdiction of the Court comprises all cases which the Article shall fulfil the conditions required by Articles 2, 17 (para- parties refer to it and all matters specially provided for in the Char- graph 2), 20, and 24 of the present Statute. They shall take part in ter of the United Nations or in treaties and conventions in force. the decision on terms of complete equality with their colleagues. 2. The states parties to the present Statute may at any time declare that they recognize as compulsory ipso facto and without Article 32 special agreement, in relation to any other state accepting the 1. Each member of the Court shall receive an annual same obligation, the jurisdiction of the Court in all legal disputes salary. concerning: 2. The President shall receive a special annual allowance. a. the interpretation of a treaty; 3. The Vice-President shall receive a special allowance for b. any question of international law; every day on which he acts as President. c. the existence of any fact which, if established, would con- 4. The judges chosen under Article 31, other than members stitute a breach of an international obligation; of the Court, shall receive compensation for each day on which d. the nature or extent of the reparation to be made for the they exercise their functions. breach of an international obligation. 5. These salaries, allowances, and compensation shall be fixed 3. The declarations referred to above may be made uncon- by the General Assembly. They may not be decreased during the ditionally or on condition of reciprocity on the part of several or term of office. certain states, or for a certain time. 6. The salary of the Registrar shall be fixed by the General 4. Such declarations shall be deposited with the Secretary- Assembly on the proposal of the Court. General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof 7. Regulations made by the General Assembly shall fix the to the parties to the Statute and to the Registrar of the Court. conditions under which retirement pensions may be given to mem- 5. Declarations made under Article 36 of the Statute of the bers of the Court and to the Registrar, and the conditions under Permanent Court of International Justice and which are still in which members of the Court and the Registrar shall have their force shall be deemed, as between the parties to the present Stat- travelling expenses refunded. ute, to be acceptances of the compulsory jurisdiction of the Inter- Statute of the International Court of Justice 1669 national Court of Justice for the period which they still have to 2. Pending the final decision, notice of the measures sug- run and in accordance with their terms. gested shall forthwith be given to the parties and to the Security 6. In the event of a dispute as to whether the Court has juris- Council. diction, the matter shall be settled by the decision of the Court. Article 42 Article 37 1. The parties shall be represented by agents. Whenever a treaty or convention in force provides for refer- 2. They may have the assistance of counsel or advocates ence of a matter to a tribunal to have been instituted by the before the Court. League of Nations, or to the Permanent Court of International 3. The agents, counsel, and advocates of parties before the Justice, the matter shall, as between the parties to the present Court shall enjoy the privileges and immunities necessary to the Statute, be referred to the International Court of Justice. independent exercise of their duties. Article 38 Article 43 1. The Court, whose function is to decide in accordance 1. The procedure shall consist of two parts: written and with international law such disputes as are submitted to it, shall oral. apply: 2. The written proceedings shall consist of the communi- a. international conventions, whether general or particular, cation to the Court and to the parties of memorials, counter- establishing rules expressly recognized by the contesting memorials and, if necessary, replies; also all papers and documents states; in support. b. international custom, as evidence of a general practice 3. These communications shall be made through the Regis- accepted as law; trar, in the order and within the time fixed by the Court. c. the general principles of law recognized by civilized 4. A certified copy of every document produced by one party nations; shall be communicated to the other party. d. subject to the provisions of Article 59, judicial decisions 5. The oral proceedings shall consist of the hearing by the and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists Court of witnesses, experts, agents, counsel, and advocates. of the various nations, as subsidiary means for the Article 44 determination of rules of law. 1. For the service of all notices upon persons other than the 2. This provision shall not prejudice the power of the Court agents, counsel, and advocates, the Court shall apply direct to to decide a case ex aequo et bono, if the parties agree thereto. the government of the state upon whose territory the notice has to be served. Chapter III 2. The same provision shall apply whenever steps are to be PROCEDURE taken to procure evidence on the spot.

Article 39 Article 45 1. The official languages of the Court shall be French and The hearing shall be under the control of the President or, English. If the parties agree that the case shall be conducted in if he is unable to preside, of the Vice-President; if neither is able French, the judgment shall be delivered in French. If the parties to preside, the senior judge present shall preside. agree that the case shall be conducted in English, the judgment Article 46 shall be delivered in English. The hearing in Court shall be public, unless the Court shall 2. In the absence of an agreement as to which language shall decide otherwise, or unless the parties demand that the public be be employed, each party may, in the pleadings, use the language not admitted. which it prefers; the decision of the Court shall be given in French and English. In this case the Court shall at the same time deter- Article 47 mine which of the two texts shall be considered as authoritative. 1. Minutes shall be made at each hearing and signed by the 3. The Court shall, at the request of any party, authorize Registrar and the President. a language other than French or English to be used by that party. 2. These minutes alone shall be authentic. Article 40 Article 48 1. Cases are brought before the Court, as the case may be, The Court shall make orders for the conduct of the case, shall either by the notification of the special agreement or by a written decide the form and time in which each party must conclude its application addressed to the Registrar. In either case the subject of arguments, and make all arrangements connected with the taking the dispute and the parties shall be indicated. of evidence. 2. The Registrar shall forthwith communicate the applica- tion to all concerned. Article 49 3. He shall also notify the Members of the United Nations The Court may, even before the hearing begins, call upon the through the Secretary-General, and also any other states entitled agents to produce any document or to supply any explanations. to appear before the Court. Formal note shall be taken of any refusal. Article 41 Article 50 1. The Court shall have the power to indicate, if it consid- The Court may, at any time, entrust any individual, body, ers that circumstances so require, any provisional measures which bureau, commission, or other organization that it may select, with ought to be taken to preserve the respective rights of either party. the task of carrying out an enquiry or giving an expert opinion. 1670 Appendix II

Article 51 2. The proceedings for revision shall be opened by a judg- During the hearing any relevant questions are to be put to the ment of the Court expressly recording the existence of the new witnesses and experts under the conditions laid down by the Court fact, recognizing that it has such a character as to lay the case in the rules of procedure referred to in Article 30. open to revision, and declaring the application admissible on this ground. Article 52 3. The Court may require previous compliance with the terms After the Court has received the proofs and evidence within the of the judgment before it admits proceedings in revision. time specified for the purpose, it may refuse to accept any further 4. The application for revision must be made at latest within oral or written evidence that one party may desire to present unless six months of the discovery of the new fact. the other side consents. 5. No application for revision may be made after the lapse of ten years from the date of the judgment. Article 53 Article 62 1. Whenever one of the parties does not appear before the Court, or fails to defend its case, the other party may call upon 1. Should a state consider that it has an interest of a legal the Court to decide in favour of its claim. nature which may be affected by the decision in the case, it may 2. The Court must, before doing so, satisfy itself, not only submit a request to the Court to be permitted to intervene. that it has jurisdiction in accordance with Articles 36 and 37, but 2. It shall be for the Court to decide upon this request. also that the claim is well founded in fact and law. Article 63 Article 54 1. Whenever the construction of a convention to which states 1. When, subject to the control of the Court, the agents, other than those concerned in the case are parties is in question, counsel, and advocates have completed their presentation of the the Registrar shall notify all such states forthwith. case, the President shall declare the hearing closed. 2. Every state so notified has the right to intervene in the 2. The Court shall withdraw to consider the judgment. proceedings; but if it uses this right, the construction given by the 3. The deliberations of the Court shall take place in private judgment will be equally binding upon it. and remain secret. Article 64 Article 55 Unless otherwise decided by the Court, each party shall bear 1. All questions shall be decided by a majority of the judges its own costs. present. 2. In the event of an equality of votes, the President or the Chapter IV judge who acts in his place shall have a casting vote. ADVISORY OPINIONS Article 56 Article 65 1. The judgment shall state the reasons on which it is based. 2. It shall contain the names of the judges who have taken 1. The Court may give an advisory opinion on any legal part in the decision. question at the request of whatever body may be authorized by or in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations to make Article 57 such a request. If the judgment does not represent in whole or in part the 2. Questions upon which the advisory opinion of the Court unanimous opinion of the judges, any judge shall be entitled to is asked shall be laid before the Court by means of a written deliver a separate opinion. request containing an exact statement of the question upon which an opinion is required, and accompanied by all documents likely Article 58 to throw light upon the question. The judgment shall be signed by the President and by the Article 66 Registrar. It shall be read in open court, due notice having been given to the agents. 1. The Registrar shall forthwith give notice of the request for an advisory opinion to all states entitled to appear before the Article 59 Court. The decision of the Court has no binding force except between 2. The Registrar shall also, by means of a special and direct the parties and in respect of that particular case. communication, notify any state entitled to appear before the Court or international organization considered by the Court, or, Article 60 should it not be sitting, by the President, as likely to be able to fur- The judgment is final and without appeal. In the event of nish information on the question, that the Court will be prepared dispute as to the meaning or scope of the judgment, the Court to receive, within a time limit to be fixed by the President, written shall construe it upon the request of any party. statements, or to hear, at a public sitting to be held for the purpose, oral statements relating to the question. Article 61 3. Should any such state entitled to appear before the Court 1. An application for revision of a judgment may be made have failed to receive the special communication referred to in para- only when it is based upon the discovery of some fact of such graph 2 of this Article, such state may express a desire to submit a nature as to be a decisive factor, which fact was, when the judg- a written statement or to be heard; and the Court will decide. ment was given, unknown to the Court and also the party claim- 4. States and organizations having presented written or oral ing revision, always provided that such ignorance was not due to statements or both shall be permitted to comment on the state- negligence. ments made by other states or organizations in the form, to the Statute of the International Court of Justice 1671 extent, and within the time limits which the Court, or, should Chapter V it not be sitting, the President, shall decide in each particular AMENDMENT case. Accordingly, the Registrar shall in due time communicate any such written statements to states and organizations having Article 69 submitted similar statements. Amendments to the present Statute shall be effected by the Article 67 same procedure as is provided by the Charter of the United Nations for amendments to that Charter, subject however to any The Court shall deliver its advisory opinions in open court, provisions which the General Assembly upon recommendation of notice having been given to the Secretary-General and to the the Security Council may adopt concerning the participation of representatives of Members of the United Nations, of other states states which are parties to the present Statute but are not Members and of international organizations immediately concerned. of the United Nations. Article 68 Article 70 In the exercise of its advisory functions the Court shall further The Court shall have power to propose such amendments to be guided by the provisions of the present Statute which apply in the present Statute as it may deem necessary, through written contentious cases to the extent to which it recognizes them to be communications to the Secretary-General, for consideration applicable. in conformity with the provisions of Article 69. Appendix III Structure of the United Nations

General Assembly

The General Assembly is composed of all the Members of the Sixty-third session United Nations. First Committee SESSIONS Chairperson: Marco Antonio Suazo (Honduras)4 Resumed sixty-second session: 12 February–15 September 2008 Vice-Chairpersons: Martin Zvachula (Micronesia), Ivan Mutavdzic Sixty-third session: 16 September–23 December 2008 (suspended) (Croatia), Miguel Graca (Portugal) Rapporteur: Coly Seck (Senegal) OFFICERS Resumed sixty-second session Fourth Committee President: Srgjan Kerim (former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia) Chairperson: Jorge Arguello (Argentina)4 Vice-Presidents: Bahamas, Benin, Botswana, China, Cyprus, Demo- Vice-Chairpersons: Emr Elsherbini (Egypt), Alexandru Cujba cratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, France, Gambia, Honduras, (Moldova), Elmer Cato (Philippines) Iceland, Iraq, Mauritius, Palau, Russian Federation, Sri Lanka, Rapporteur: Paula Parviainen (Finland) Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay Second Committee Sixty-third session President: Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann (Nicaragua)1 Chairperson: Uche Joy Ogwu (Nigeria)4 Vice-Presidents: 2 Afghanistan, Bolivia, Cameroon, China, Egypt, Vice-Chairpersons: Andrei Metelitsa (Belarus), Troy Torrington France, Jamaica, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Mongolia, Myanmar, (Guyana), Martin Hoppe (Germany) Namibia, Niger, Portugal, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Solomon Rapporteur: Awsan Al-Aud (Yemen) Islands, Spain, Togo, United Kingdom, United States Third Committee The Assembly has four types of committees: (1) Main Com- 4 mittees; (2) procedural committees; (3) standing committees; Chairperson: Frank Majoor (Netherlands) (4) subsidiary and ad hoc bodies. In addition, it convenes confer- Vice-Chairpersons: Divina Adjoa Seanedzu (Ghana), Ara Margarian ences to deal with specific subjects. (Armenia), Julio Peralta (Paraguay) Rapporteur: Khalid Alwafi (Saudi Arabia) Main Committees Fifth Committee By resolution 47/233, the General Assembly rationalized its Chairperson: Gabor Brodi (Hungary)4 Committee structure as follows: Vice-Chairpersons: Olivio Fermin (Dominican Republic), Mohamed Disarmament and International Security Committee (First Com- Yousif Ibrahim Abdelmannan (Sudan), Henric Rasbrant (Sweden) mittee); Rapporteur: Patrick Chuasoto (Philippines) Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Commit- Sixth Committee tee); 4 Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee); Chairperson: Hamid Al Bayati (Iraq) Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (Third Committee); Vice-Chairpersons: El-Hadj Lamine (Algeria), Ana Cristina Rodríguez- Administrative and Budgetary Committee (Fifth Committee); Pineda (Guatemala), Scott Sheeran (New Zealand) Legal Committee (Sixth Committee). Rapporteur: Marko Rakovec (Slovenia) The General Assembly may constitute other committees, Procedural committees on which all Members of the United Nations have the right to be represented. General Committee OFFICERS OF THE MAIN COMMITTEES The General Committee consists of the President of the Resumed sixty-second session General Assembly, as Chairperson, the 21 Vice-Presidents and the Chairpersons of the six Main Committees. Fourth Committee3 Chairperson: Abdalmahmood Abdalhaleem Mohamad (Sudan) Credentials Committee Vice-Chairpersons: Hossein Maleki (Iran), Viktoriia Kuvshynnykova (Ukraine), Alexandrous Vidouris (Greece) The Credentials Committee consists of nine members appointed Rapporteur: Renier Valladares Gómez (Honduras) by the General Assembly on the proposal of the President. Second Committee3 Resumed sixty-second session Angola, Chile, China, Namibia, Russian Federation, Singapore, Chairperson: Kirsti Lintonen (Finland) Suriname, Switzerland, United States Vice-Chairpersons: Melanie Santizo-Sandoval (Guatemala), Hassan Ali Saleh (Lebanon), Peter Le Roux (South Africa) Sixty-third session5 Rapporteur: Tamar Tchitanava (Georgia) Botswana, China, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Mexico, Mozambique, Fifth Committee3 Russian Federation, Saint Kitts and Nevis, United States Chairperson: Hamidon Ali (Malaysia) Standing committees Vice-Chairpersons: Alejandro Torres Lepori (Argentina), Tomáš Micánek (Czech Republic), Klaus de Rijk (Netherlands) The two standing committees consist of experts appointed Rapporteur: Steven Ssenabulya Nkayivu (Uganda) in their individual capacity for three-year terms.

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Advisory Committee on Administrative and Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) Sessions: Forty-ninth, New York, 20–22 February; fiftieth, Geneva, To serve until 31 December 2008: Guillermo Kendall (Argentina), Igor 9–11 July V. Khalevinsky (Russian Federation), Susan M. McLurg (United Chairperson: Adam Daniel Rotfeld (Poland) States), Tommo Monthe (Cameroon), Christina Vasak (France) Membership: 18 (plus 1 ex-officio member) To serve until 31 December 2009: Andrzej T. Abraszewski Report: A/63/279 (Poland), Collen V. Kelapile (Botswana), Stafford Neil (Jamaica), Mohammad Mustafa Tal (Jordan), Nonye Udo (Nigeria) Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme To serve until 31 December 2010: Jorge Flores Callejas (Honduras), of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Imtiaz Hussain (Pakistan), Misako Kaji (Japan), Jerry Kramer Wider Appreciation of International Law (Canada), Peter Maddens (Belgium), Nagesh Singh (India) Session: Forty-third, New York, 6 November On 20 November 2008 (dec. 63/407), the General Assembly ap- Chairperson: Leslie K. Christian (Ghana) pointed the following for a three-year term beginning on 1 January Membership: 25 2009 to fill vacancies occurring on 31 December 2008: Aїcha Afifi Report: A/64/495 (Morocco), Renata Archini (Italy), Vladimir A. Iosifov (Russian Federa- tion), Susan M. McLurg (United States), and Alejandro Torres Lépori Board of Auditors (Argentina). Session: Sixty-second, New York, 16–18 July; special session, Paris, Committee on Contributions 3 December Chairperson: Philip Seguin (France) To serve until 31 December 2008: Sujata Ghorai (Germany), Vyacheslav A. Membership: 3 Logutov (Russian Federation), Richard Moon (United Kingdom), Hae-yun Park (Republic of Korea), Henrique da Silveira Sardinha Committee on Conferences Pinto (Brazil), Wu Gang (China) Session: New York, 7 April (organizational); 8–12 September To serve until 31 December 2009: Kenshiro Akimoto (Japan), Meshal (substantive) Al-Mansour (Kuwait), Petru Dumitriu (Romania), Ihor V. Humenny Chairperson: Patrick A. Chuasoto (Philippines) (Ukraine), Gobona Susan Mapitse (Botswana), Lisa P. Spratt (United States) Membership: 21 To serve until 31 December 2010: Joseph Acakpo-Satchivi (Benin), Report: A/63/32 Abdelmalek Bouheddou (Algeria), Gordon Eckersley (Australia), Decision: GA 63/405 Bernardo Greiver del Hoyo (Uruguay), Luis Mariano Hermosillo Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Sosa (Mexico), Eduardo Manuel da Fonseca Fernandes Ramos Rights of the Palestinian People (Portugal) On 20 November 2008 (dec. 63/408), the General Assembly Meetings: Throughout the year appointed the following for a three-year term beginning on 1 Jan- Chairperson: Paul Badji (Senegal) uary 2009 to fill the vacancies occurring on 31 December 2008: Membership: 23 Vyacheslav A. Logutov (Russian Federation), Richard Moon (United Report: A/63/35 Kingdom), Hae-yun Park (Republic of Korea), Thomas Thomma Decision: GA 62/553 (Germany), Courtney H. Williams (Jamaica), and Wu Gang (China). Committee on Information Subsidiary and ad hoc bodies Session: Thirtieth, New York, 28 April–9 May Chairperson: Andreas Baum (Switzerland) The following is a list of subsidiary and ad hoc bodies function- Membership: 112 ing in 2008, including the number of members, dates of meetings/ Report: A/63/21 sessions in 2008, document numbers of reports (which generally Decisions: GA 63/412, GA 63/524 provide specific information on membership), and relevant decision numbers pertaining to elections. Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Ad Hoc Committee on the Administration of Justice Session: Fifty-first, Vienna, 11–20 June at the United Nations Chairperson: Ciro Arévalo Yepes (Colombia) Membership: 69 Session: First, New York, 10–18, 21 and 24 April Report: A/63/20 Chairperson: Ganeson Sivagurunathan (Malaysia) Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations Committee for Programme and or members of the specialized agencies or of IAEA Coordination (CPC) Report: A/63/55 Session: Forty-eighth, New York, 30 April (organizational); 9 June– Ad Hoc Committee on Criminal Accountability of 3 July (substantive) United Nations Officials and Experts on Mission Chairperson: Ren Yisheng (China) Membership: 34 Session: Second, New York, 7–9, 11 April Report: A/63/16 Chairperson: Maria Telalian (Greece) Decisions: ESC 2008/201 C, E & G; GA 63/414 Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations or members of the specialized agencies or of IAEA Committee on Relations with the Host Country Report: A/63/54 Meetings: New York, 22 January, 22 April, 23 July, 2 October and Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly 31 October Chairpersons: Andreas D. Mavroyiannis (Cyprus) (through July), resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996 Minas Hadjimichael (Cyprus) (from October) Session: Twelfth, New York, 25–26 February and 6 March Membership: 19 (including the United States as host country) Chairperson: Rohan Perera (Sri Lanka) Report: A/63/26 Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations or members of the specialized agencies or of IAEA Committee for the United Nations Population Award Report: A/63/37 Meeting: New York, 18 January Chairperson: Anders Lidén (Sweden) Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean Membership: 10 (plus 5 honorary members, the Secretary-General Meeting: Did not meet in 2008 and the UNFPA Executive Director) Membership: 43 Report: A/63/255 1674 Appendix III

Disarmament Commission Panel of External Auditors Session: New York, 18 March (organizational); 7–24 April (substantive) Session: Forty-ninth, Paris, 1–2 December Chairperson: Piet de Klerk (Netherlands) Membership: Members of the UN Board of Auditors and the Membership: All UN Members appointed external auditors of the specialized agencies and IAEA Report: A/63/42 Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation 6 and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization Session: Did not meet in 2008 Meetings: New York, 27–29 February, 3–5 and 7 March Membership: All States participating in UNDP Chairperson: Karim Medrek (Morocco) Human Rights Council Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations Report: A/63/33 Sessions: Sixth special, 23–24 January; seventh special, 22 May; eighth special, 28 November and 1 December; seventh Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices regular, 3–28 March and 1 April; eighth regular, 2–18 June; Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People ninth regular, 8–24 September, all in Geneva and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories President: Doru Romulus Costea (Romania) Membership: 47 Meetings: Cairo, Egypt, 23–27 June; Amman, Jordan, 27 June–1 July; Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic, 1–5 July Reports: A/63/53 & Add.1, A/64/53 Chairperson: Prasad Kariyawasam (Sri Lanka) Decision: GA 62/415 Membership: 3 Independent Audit Advisory Committee Report: A/63/273 Sessions: First–fourth, New York, 20–22 February, 29 April–1 May, Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations 16–18 July and 1–3 December Chairperson: David M. Walker (United States) Meetings: New York, 10 March–4 April, 3 July Membership: 5 Chairperson: Felix Ani Aniokoye (Nigeria) Reports: A/63/328, A/64/288 Membership: 139 Report: A/62/19 International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Sessions: Sixty-sixth, Addis Ababa, 31 March–11 April; sixty-seventh, Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of New York, 14–25 July Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples Chairperson: Kingston Papie Rhodes (Sierra Leone) Membership: 15 Session: New York, 28 February and 15 April (first part); 27 May, Report: A/63/30 9, 11–12, 18–19 and 23 June (second part) Decision: GA 63/410 Chairperson: R. M. Marty M. Natalegawa (Indonesia) Membership: 27 Advisory Committee on Post Adjustment Questions Report: A/63/23 Session: Thirtieth, New York, 28 January–4 February Decisions: GA 63/413, 63/526 Chairperson: Wolfgang Stöckl (Germany) Membership: 6 United Nations Administrative Tribunal Sessions: New York, 21 April–2 May and 27 October–26 November; International Law Commission Geneva, 23 June–25 July Session: Sixtieth, Geneva, 5 May–6 June, 7 July–8 August President: Spyridon Flogaitis (Greece) Chairperson: Edmundo Vargas Carreño (Chile) Membership: 7 Membership: 34 Report: A/INF/63/5 Report: A/63/10 United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) Investments Committee Executive Board Chairperson: William J. McDonough (United States) The UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board acts as the Executive Board of Membership: 9 the Fund. Decision: GA 63/409 Managing Director: Kemal Dervis (UNDP Administrator) Joint Advisory Group on the International United Nations Commission on International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Session: Forty-second, Geneva, 10–11 December Session: Fortieth, New York, 16 June–3 July Chairperson: Arsene Balihuta (Uganda) Chairperson: Rafael Illescas Ortiz (Spain) Membership: Open to all States members of UNCTAD and all Membership: 60 members of WTO Report: A/63/17 Report: ITC/AG(XLII)/225 United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) Membership: 3 Chairperson: Even Fontaine Ortiz (Cuba) Report: A/63/317 Membership: 11 Report: A/63/34 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Session: Twelfth, Accra, Ghana, 20–25 April Office of the United Nations High Commissioner Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations for Refugees (UNHCR) or members of the specialized agencies or of IAEA Executive Committee of the High Commissioner’s Programme Report: TD/442 Session: Fifty-ninth, Geneva, 6–10 October Secretary-General of UNCTAD: Supachai Panitchpakdi (Thailand) Chairperson: Boudewijn J. van Eenennaam (Netherlands) Trade and Development Board Membership: 76 Sessions: Fifty-fifth (annual), 15–26 September; forty-third, forty- Report: A/63/12/Add.1 fourth and forty-fifth (executive), 3 March, 10 July and 13 Novem- Decisions: ESC 2008/255, 2008/201 C ber; twenty-fourth (special), 17–20 March, all in Geneva High Commissioner: António Manuel de Oliveira Guterres President: Petko Draganov (Bulgaria) (forty-third, forty-fourth executive and twenty-fourth special sessions); Debapriya Structure of the United Nations 1675

Bhattacharya (Bangladesh) (forty-fifth executive and fifty-fifth United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) annual sessions) Board of Trustees Membership: Open to all States members of UNCTAD Session: Forty-sixth, Geneva, 15–16 May Report: TD/B/55/10 Chairperson: Martin Lään (Estonia) SUBSIDIARY ORGANS OF THE TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD Membership: 15 (plus 2 ex-officio members) COMMISSION ON ENTERPRISE, Report: E/2008/72 BUSINESS FACILITATION AND DEVELOPMENT Executive Director of UNITAR: Carlos Lopes Session: Twelfth, Geneva, 4–5 February United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board Chairperson: El Mostapha Ait Amor (Morocco) Membership: Open to all States members of UNCTAD Session: Fifty-fifth, Rome, 10–18 July Report: TD/B/COM.3/86 Chairperson: Valeria Maria Gonzalez Posse (Argentina) Membership: 33 COMMISSION ON INVESTMENT, Report: A/63/9 TECHNOLOGY AND RELATED FINANCIAL ISSUES Decision: GA 63/411 Session: Twelfth, Geneva, 12–13 February Executive Director: Bernard Cochemé President: Fredrik Arthur (Norway) Membership: Open to all States members of UNCTAD United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Report: TD/B/COM.2/82 Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA)

Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law and Policy Advisory Commission of UNRWA Session: Ninth, Geneva, 15–18 July Meeting: Damascus, Syria, 10–11 June Chairperson: Taisiya Tkacheva (Russian Federation) Chairperson: Ali Mustafa (Syria) Membership: Open to all States members of UNCTAD Membership: 24 Report: TD/B/COM.2/CLP/72 Report: A/63/13 Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on International Standards of Accounting and Reporting WORKING GROUP ON THE FINANCING OF UNRWA Session: Twenty-fifth, Geneva, 4–6 November Meetings: New York, 12 and 19 September Chairperson: L. Nelson Carvalho (Brazil) Chairperson: Baki İlkin (Turkey) Membership: 34 Membership: 9 Report: TD/B/C.II/ISAR/51 & Corr.1,2 Report: A/63/375 Decision: ESC 2008/201 C Commissioner-General of UNRWA: Karen Koning AbuZayd COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, AND COMMODITIES United Nations Scientific Committee Session: Twelfth, Geneva, 7–8 February on the Effects of Atomic Radiation Chairperson: Gusti Agung Wesaka Puja (Indonesia) Session: Fifty-sixth, Vienna, 10–18 July Membership: Open to all States members of UNCTAD Chairperson: Norman Gentner (Canada) Report: TD/B/COM.1/92 Membership: 21 WORKING PARTY ON THE Report: A/63/46 MEDIUM-TERM PLAN AND THE PROGRAMME BUDGET Sessions: Fiftieth and fifty-first, Geneva, 16–18 June and 1–5 September United Nations Staff Pension Committee Chairpersons: Dmitry Godunov (Russian Federation) (fiftieth session), Membership: 12 (plus 8 alternates) Carmen Elena Castillo-Gallandat (El Salvador) (fifty-first session) Decision: GA 63/411 Membership: Open to all States members of UNCTAD Reports: TD/B/WP/200, TD/B/WP/206 United Nations University (UNU) United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Council of the United Nations University Session: Fifty-fifth, Bonn, Germany, 1–5 December Consultative Committee Session: Forty-eighth, New York, 13–14 February Chairperson: Juan Ramón de la Fuente (Mexico) Chairperson: Tiina Intelmann (Estonia) Membership: 24 (plus 3 ex-officio members and the UNU Rector) Membership: 5 Rector of the University: Konrad Osterwalder Executive Director of UNIFEM: Inés Alberdi (Spain) United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Board of Trustees Governing Council Session: Twenty-first, Geneva, 4–8 February Session: Tenth special, Monaco, 20–22 February Chairperson: Nadir Bekirov (Ukraine) President: Roberto Dobles (Costa Rica) Membership: 5 Membership: 56 Report: A/63/166 Report: A/63/25 Decision: GA 62/406 B United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture Executive Director of UNEP: Achim Steiner Board of Trustees United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Session: Twenty-eighth, Geneva, 6–8 February Governing Council Chairperson: Krassimir Kanev (Bulgaria) Session: Did not meet in 2008 Membership: 5 Membership: 58 Report: A/63/220 Decision: ESC 2008/201 C Executive Director of UN-Habitat: Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) Board of Trustees Board of Trustees Session: Thirteenth, Geneva, 8–12 September Sessions: Forty-ninth, New York, 20–22 February; fiftieth, Geneva, 9–11 July Chairperson: David Weissbrodt (United States) Chairperson: Adam Daniel Rotfeld (Poland) Membership: 5 Membership: 18 (plus 1 ex-officio member) Reports: A/63/137, A/64/306 Reports: A/63/177, A/63/279 Director of UNIDIR: Patricia Lewis 1676 Appendix III

Security Council

The Security Council consists of 15 Member States of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) United Nations (5 permanent members and 10 non-per- President: Judge Fausto Pocar (Italy) manent members), in accordance with the provisions of Article 23 of the United Nations Charter as amended in 1965. International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) MEMBERS President: Judge Dennis Byron (Saint Kitts and Nevis) Permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States Advisory Subsidiary body

Non-permanent members: Belgium, Burkina Faso, Costa Rica, 7 Croatia, Indonesia, Italy, Libya, Panama, South Africa, Viet Nam United Nations Peacebuilding Commission On 17 October 2008 (dec. 63/403), the General Assembly Organizational Committee elected Austria, Japan, Mexico, Turkey and Uganda for a two-year Session: Second, New York, 12, 19 and 23 June term beginning on 1 January 2009, to replace Belgium, Indonesia, Chairperson: Yukio Takasu (Japan) Italy, Panama and South Africa, whose terms of office were to Membership: 31 expire on 31 December 2008. Report: A/63/92 Decisions: GA 62/419 A & B, 63/415; ESC 2008/38, 2008/201 A, D, E & G PRESIDENT The presidency of the Council rotates monthly, according to Peacekeeping operations the English alphabetical listing of its Member States. The follow- ing served as President during 2008: United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) Month Member Representative January Libya Giadallah A. Ettalhi Chief of Staff: Major General Ian Campbell Gordon February Panama Ricardo Alberto Arias United Nations Military Observer Group March Russian Federation Vitaly Churkin in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) April South Africa Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo Chief Military Observer: Major General Dragutin Repinc (until May United Kingdom John Sawers October), Major General Kim Moon Hwa (from October) June United States Zalmay Khalilzad July Vietnam Le Luong Minh United Nations Peacekeeping Force August Belgium Jan Grauls in Cyprus (UNFICYP) September Burkina Faso Michel Kafando Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: October China Zhang Yesui Michael Møller (until March), Tayé-Brook Zerihoun (from November Costa Rica Jorge Urbina April) December Croatia Neven Jurica Force Commander: Major-General Rafael Barni (until March), Rear Admiral Mario Sánchez Debernardi (from April) Military Staff Committee United Nations Disengagement The Military Staff Committee consists of the chiefs of staff Observer Force (UNDOF) of the permanent members of the Security Council or their Head of Mission and Force Commander: Major General Wolfgang representatives. It meets fortnightly. Jilke Standing committees United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Each of the three standing committees of the Security Council is composed of representatives of all Council members: Force Commander: Major General Claudio Graziano Committee of Experts (to examine the provisional rules of proce- United Nations Mission for the Referendum dure of the Council and any other matters entrusted to it by the Council); in Western Sahara (MINURSO) Committee on the Admission of New Members; Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Committee on Council Meetings Away from Headquarters. Julian Harston Force Commander: Major General Zhao Jingmin Subsidiary bodies United Nations Observer Mission Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) in Georgia (UNOMIG) Chairperson: Neven Jurica Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Membership: 15 Jean Arnault (until August), Johan Verbeke (from August) Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Ivo Petrov United Nations Compensation Commission Chief Military Observer: Major General Niaz Muhammad Governing Council Khan Khattak (until August), Major General Anwar Hussain Sessions: Sixty-fifth and sixty-sixth, Geneva, 8–9 April and 21–22 (from August) October President: Alex Van Meeuwen (Belgium) United Nations Interim Administration Mission Membership: 15 in Kosovo (UNMIK) Reports: S/2008/265, S/2008/658 Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Joachim Rücker (until June), Lamberto Zannier (from June) 1540 Committee Principal Deputy Special Representative: Lawrence Rossin Chairperson: Jorge Urbina (Costa Rica) Deputy Special Representative for Reconstruction: Paul Acda Membership: 15 Deputy Special Representative for Institution Building: Werner Report: S/2008/493 Wnendt Structure of the United Nations 1677

United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Political, peacebuilding and other missions Republic of the Congo (MONUC) United Nations Political Office Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: for Somalia (UNPOS) Alan Doss Deputy Special Representative: Ross Mountain Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNPOS: Force Commander: Lieutenant-General Babacar Gaye (until October; Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah reappointed from November) United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office United Nations Mission in Ethiopia in Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS) 8 and Eritrea (UNMEE) Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNOGBIS: Acting Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head Shola Omoregie of Mission: Azouz Ennifar (Acting) Deputy Special Representative: Lebohang K. Moleko Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator Force Commander: Major-General Mohammed Taisir Masadeh for the Middle East (UNSCO) Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Organization and the Palestinian Authority: Robert H. Serry Margrethe Løj Deputy Special Representative: Jordan Ryan United Nations Peacebuilding Office Force Commander: Lieutenant-General Chikadibia Obiakor (until in the Central African Republic (BONUCA) July), Lieutenant General A. T. M. Zahirul Alam (from October) Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of BONUCA: François Lonseny Fall United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: of the Secretary-General for Lebanon (UNSCOL) Choi Young-jin (formerly known as Office of the Personal Representative Principal Deputy Special Representative: Abou Moussa of the Secretary-General for Southern Lebanon) Force Commander: Major-General Fernand Marcel Amoussou Special Coordinator of the Secretary-General for Lebanon: Geir O. United Nations Stabilization Mission Pedersen (until February), Johan Verbeke (April–July), Michael C. Williams (from August) in Haiti (MINUSTAH) Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Hédi Annabi for West Africa (UNOWA) Principal Deputy Special Representative: Luiz Carlos da Costa Force Commander: Major-General Carlos Alberto Dos Santos Cruz Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Said Djinnit

United Nations Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Ashraf Jehangir Qazi Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Deputy Special Representative: Ameerah Haq Kai Eide Force Commander: Lieutenant General Jasbir Singh Lidder (until May), Major General Paban Jung Thapa (from May) United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq: Staffan de United Nations Integrated Mission Mistura in Timor-Leste (UNMIT) United Nations Integrated Office Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: 9 Atul Khare in Sierra Leone (UNIOSIL) Deputy Special Representative for Governance Support, Development Executive Representative for the United Nations Integrated Office and Humanitarian Coordination: Finn Reske-Nielsen in Sierra Leone: Victor da Silva Angelo Deputy Special Representative for Security Sector Support and Rule of Law: Takahisa Kawakami (from September) United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office Police Commissioner: Rodolfo Aser Tor in Sierra Leone (UNIPSIL)10 Executive Representative of the Secretary-General: Michael von der African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation Schulenburg (Acting) in Darfur (UNAMID) AU-UN Joint Special Representative for Darfur and Head of Mission: United Nations Integrated Office Rodolphe Adada in Burundi (BINUB) Deputy Joint Special Representative for Operations and Management: Executive Representative of the Secretary-General: Youssef Hocine Medili Mahmoud Force Commander: General Martin Agwai United Nations Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT) Special Representative of the Secretary-General in Nepal and Head of Mission: Ian Martin Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Victor da Silva Angelo United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Rima Salah for Central Asia (UNRCCA) Police Commissioner: Major-General Gerardo Christian Chaumont (from August) Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Miroslav Jenča 1678 Appendix III

Economic and Social Council

The Economic and Social Council consists of 54 Member States Commission on Narcotic Drugs of the United Nations, elected by the General Assembly, each for Session: Fifty-first, Vienna, 10–14 March a three-year term, in accordance with the provisions of Article 61 Chairperson: Eugenio María Curia (Argentina) of the United Nations Charter as amended in 1965 and 1973. Membership: 53 Report: E/2008/28 MEMBERS To serve until 31 December 2008: Angola, Austria, Benin, Cuba, Czech Commission on Population and Development Republic, France, Greece, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Japan, Session: Forty-first, New York, 7–11 April Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Mauritania, Paraguay, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka Chairperson: Ivan Piperkov (Bulgaria) To serve until 31 December 2009: Algeria, Barbados, Belarus, Bolivia, Membership: 47 Canada, Cape Verde, El Salvador, Indonesia, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Report: E/2008/25 Luxembourg, Malawi, Netherlands, Philippines, Romania, Decision: ESC 2008/201 C Somalia, Sudan, United States Commission on Science and Technology for Development To serve until 31 December 2010: Brazil, Cameroon, China, Congo, Iceland, Malaysia, Moldova, Mozambique, New Zealand, Niger, Session: Eleventh, Geneva, 26–30 May Pakistan, Poland, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Saint Chairperson: Maximus J. Ongkili (Malaysia) Lucia, Sweden, United Kingdom, Uruguay Membership: 43 On 22 October 2008 (dec. 63/404), the General Assembly Report: E/2008/31 elected Norway for the remaining term of office of Iceland, be- Decision: ESC 2008/201 C, E & F ginning on 1 January 2009. At the same meeting, the General Commission for Social Development Assembly elected the following for a three-year term of office beginning on 1 January 2009 to fill vacancies occurring on 31 De- Session: Forty-sixth, New York, 6–15 and 22 February cember 2008: Côte d’Ivoire, Estonia, France, Germany, Greece, Chairperson: Alexei Tulbure (Moldova) Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, India, Japan, Liechtenstein, Mauritius, Membership: 46 Morocco, Namibia, Peru, Portugal, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saudi Report: E/2008/26 Arabia, and Venezuela. Decision: ESC 2008/201 B, C & E Commission on the Status of Women SESSIONS Organizational session: New York, 14 January, 5 and 8 February, Session: Fifty-second, New York, 25 February–7 and 13 March 14 April Chairperson: Olivier Belle (Belgium) Resumed organizational session: New York, 29 April, 20–22 May, Membership: 45 12 and 20 June Report: E/2008/27 Special high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions Decision: ESC 2008/201 C and the World Trade Organization: New York, 14 April Special meeting on the global food crisis: New York, 20–22 May Commission on Sustainable Development Substantive session of 2008: New York, 30 June–25 July Session: Sixteenth, New York, 5–16 May Resumed substantive session: New York, 12 September, 19 Decem- Chairperson: Francis D. Nhema (Zimbabwe) ber Membership: 53 Report: E/2008/29 OFFICERS Decision: ESC 2008/201 C & F President: Léo Mérorès (Haiti) Vice-Presidents: Antonio Pedro Monteiro Lima (Cape Verde), Kim Statistical Commission Hyun Chong (Republic of Korea), Andrei Dapkiunas (Belarus), Session: Thirty-ninth, New York, 26–29 February Jean-Marc Hoscheit (Luxembourg) Chairperson: Pali Lehohla (South Africa) Membership: 24 Subsidiary and other related organs Report: E/2008/24 Decision: ESC 2008/201 C SUBSIDIARY ORGANS The Economic and Social Council may, at each session, set United Nations Forum on Forests up committees or working groups, of the whole or of limited Session: Did not meet in 2008 membership, and refer to them any item on the agenda for study Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations and report. and members of the specialized agencies Other subsidiary organs reporting to the Council consist of functional commissions, regional commissions, standing com- Regional commissions mittees, expert bodies and ad hoc bodies. The inter-agency United Nations System Chief Executives Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Board for Coordination also reports to the Council. Session: Forty-first session of the Commission/Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Functional commissions Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 31 March–2 April Chairperson: Meles Zanawi (Ethiopia) Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Membership: 53 Session: Sixteenth, Vienna, 14–18 April Report: E/2008/38 Chairperson: Kenjika Linus Ekedede (Nigeria) Membership: 40 Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) Report: E/2008/30 Session: Did not meet in 2008 Decision: ESC 2008/201 C & E Membership: 56 Structure of the United Nations 1679

Economic Commission for Latin America Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification Session: Thirty-second, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and Labelling of Chemicals 9–13 June Session: Fourth, Geneva, 12 December Chair: Dominican Republic Chairperson: Kim Headrick (Canada) Membership: 44 members, 8 associate members Membership: 37 Report: LC/G.2395 Report: ST/SG/AC.10/36 Economic and Social Commission Decision: ESC 2008/201 C for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Session: Sixty-fourth, Bangkok, 24–30 April Chairperson: Kim Jonghoon (Republic of Korea) Session: Seventh, New York, 21 April–2 May Membership: 53 members, 9 associate members Chairperson: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (Philippines) Report: E/2008/39 Membership: 16 Report: E/2008/43 Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) Decision: ESC 2008/201 E Session: Twenty-fifth, Sana’a, Yemen, 26–29 May Chairpersons: Mohammad Ahmed Al-Hawri (Yemen) for the United Nations Group of Experts Senior Officials’ segment; Abdul Kareem Alarhabi (Yemen) on Geographical Names for the ministerial segment Session: Did not meet in 2008 Membership: 13 Membership: Representatives of the 23 geographical/linguistic Report: E/2008/41 divisions of the Group of Experts Standing committees Ad hoc body Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations United Nations System Chief Session: New York, 21–30 January (regular); 29 May–6 June, 25 June (resumed) Executives Board for Coordination (CEB) Chairperson: Hassan Hamid Hassan (Sudan) Sessions: First, Bern, Switzerland, 28 April; second, New York, Membership: 19 24 October Reports: E/2008/32 (Part I), E/2008/32 (Part II) Chairperson: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Membership: Organizations of the UN system Committee for Programme and Coordination (CPC) Reports: CEB/2008/1, CEB/2008/2 Session: Forty-eighth, New York, 30 April (organizational); 9 June– 3 July 2008 (substantive) Other related bodies Chairperson: Ren Yisheng (China) Membership: 34 International Research and Training Institute for Report: A/63/16 the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) Decision: ESC 2008/201 C, E & G Executive Board Expert bodies Session: Fifth, New York, 21 February, 22 May President: Marie Yvette L. Banzon-Abalos (Philippines) (Acting) Committee of Experts on International Membership: 10 (plus 5 ex-officio members) Cooperation in Tax Matters Report: E/2008/73 Session: Fourth, Geneva, 20–24 October Director of INSTRAW: Carmen Moreno Chaiperson: Noureddine Bensouda (Morocco) Membership: 25 Joint United Nations Programme Report: E/2008/45 on Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Decision: ESC 2008/201 B Immunodeficiency Syndrome (UNAIDS) Committee for Development Policy Programme Coordination Board Meetings: Twenty-second, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 23–25 April; Session: Tenth, New York, 17–20 March extraordinary, Geneva, 2 October; twenty-third, Geneva, Chairperson: Ricardo Ffrench-Davis (Chile) 15–17 December Membership: 24 Chairpersons: Chavarat Charnvirakul (Thailand) (twenty-second); Report: E/2008/33 Mark Dybul (United States) (twenty-third and extraordinary) Decision: ESC 2008/201 F Membership: 22 Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Reports: UNAIDS/PCB(22)/08.22, UNAIDS/PCB(23)/08.34, UNAIDS/ PCB/Extraordinary Meeting/EM1.3 Session: Fortieth and forty-first, Geneva, 28 April–16 May and Decision: ESC 2008/201 B, C, E & G 3–21 November Executive Director of UNAIDS: Peter Piot Chairperson: Philippe Texier (France) Membership: 18 United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Report: E/2009/22 Decision: ESC 2008/201 C Executive Board Sessions: First and second regular, 29 January–1 February and Committee of Experts on Public Administration 15–18 September; annual, 3–5 June, all in New York Session: Seventh, New York, 14–18 April President: Andres Lidén (Sweden) Chairperson: Jocelyne Bourgon (Canada) Membership: 36 Membership: 24 Report: E/2008/34/Rev.1 Report: E/2008/44 Decision: ESC 2008/201 C Decision: ESC 2008/201 B Executive Director of UNICEF: Ann M. Veneman 1680 Appendix III

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/ Membership: 11 United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Report: Board/08/3 Director of UNRISD: Thandika Mkandawire Executive Board Sessions: First and second regular, New York, 21–28 January and 8–12 September; annual, Geneva, 16–27 June United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice President: Jean-Marie Ehouzou (Benin) Research Institute (UNICRI) Membership: 36 Board of Trustees Report: E/2008/35 Membership: 7 (plus 4 ex-officio members) Decision: ESC 2008/201 C Decision: ESC 2008/246 Administrator of UNDP: Kemal Dervis Director of UNICRI: Sandro Calvani (Italy) Executive Director of UNFPA: Thoraya Ahmed Obaid World Food Programme (WFP) UNITED NATIONS VOLUNTEERS (UNV) Executive Board Report: DP/2008/34 Sessions: First and second regular, Rome, 4–6 February and 27–30 October; annual, Rome, 9–12 June United Nations Research Institute for Social President: José Eduardo Dantas Ferreira Barbosa (Cape Verde) Development (UNRISD) Membership: 36 Board Report: E/2009/36 Session: Forty-sixth, Geneva, 28 March Decision: ESC 2008/201 C Chairperson: Lourdes Arizpe (Mexico) Executive Director of WFP: Josette Sheeran

Trusteeship Council

The Trusteeship Council suspended operation on 1 No- considering that the Council no longer met and had no remain- vember 1994 following the independence of Palau, the last ing functions, decided that Chapter XIII of the United Nations remaining United Nations trust territory, on 1 October 1994. Charter and references to the Council in Chapter XII should be The General Assembly, in resolution 60/1 of 16 September 2005, deleted.

International Court of Justice

JUDGES OF THE COURT PARTIES TO THE COURT’S STATUTE The International Court of Justice consists of 15 Judges elected All Members of the United Nations are ipso facto parties to for nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the Security the Statute of the International Court of Justice. Council. The following were the Judges of the Court serving in 2008, STATES ACCEPTING THE COMPULSORY listed in the order of precedence: JURISDICTION OF THE COURT Declarations made by the following States, a number with Judge Country of nationality End of term reservations, accepting the Court’s compulsory jurisdiction (or Rosalyn Higgins, United Kingdom 2009 made under the Statute of the Permanent Court of International President Justice and deemed to be an acceptance of the jurisdiction of Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, Jordan 2009 Vice-President the International Court) were in force at the end of 2008: Raymond Ranjeva Madagascar 2009 Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, Shi Jiuyong China 2012 Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Abdul G. Koroma Sierra Leone 2012 Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Gam- Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren Venezuela 2009 bia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Thomas Buergenthal United States 2015 Honduras, Hungary, India, Japan, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Hisashi Owada Japan 2012 Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malta, Bruno Simma Germany 2012 Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Ni- Peter Tomka Slovakia 2012 geria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Ronny Abraham France 2009 Poland, Portugal, Senegal, Slovakia, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, Uganda, Kenneth Keith New Zealand 2015 United Kingdom, and Uruguay. Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor Mexico 2015 Mohamed Bennouna Morocco 2015 UNITED NATIONS ORGANS AND SPECIALIZED Leonid Skotnikov Russian Federation 2015 AND RELATED AGENCIES AUTHORIZED TO REQUEST ADVISORY OPINIONS FROM THE COURT Registrar: Philippe Couvreur Deputy Registrar: Thérèse de Saint Phalle Authorized by the United Nations Charter to request opinions on any legal question: General Assembly, Security Council Decision: GA 63/406 Authorized by the General Assembly in accordance with the Charter CHAMBER OF SUMMARY PROCEDURE to request opinions on legal questions arising within the scope Members: Rosalyn Higgins (ex officio), Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh of their activities: Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship (ex officio), Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren, Thomas Buergenthal, Council, Interim Committee of the General Assembly, ILO, Leonid Skotnikov FAO, UNESCO, ICAO, WHO, World Bank, IFC, IDA, IMF, ITU, Substitute members: Abdul G. Koroma, Ronny Abraham WMO, IMO, WIPO, IFAD, UNIDO, IAEA Structure of the United Nations 1681

COMMITTEES OF THE COURT Library Committee

Budgetary and Administrative Committee Members: Thomas Buergenthal (Chairperson), Bruno Simma, Peter Tomka, Kenneth Keith, Mohamed Bennouna Members: Rosalyn Higgins (ex officio), Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh (ex officio), Raymond Ranjeva, Thomas Buergenthal, Hisashi Rules Committee Owada, Peter Tomka Members: Hisashi Owada (Chairperson), Bruno Simma, Ronny Abraham, Kenneth Keith, Bernardo Sepúlveda Amor, Mohamed Bennouna Report: A/63/4

Other United Nations-related bodies

The following bodies are not subsidiary to any principal Committee on the Rights of the Child organ of the United Nations but were established by an inter- Sessions: Forty-seventh and forty-eighth, Geneva, 14 January– national treaty instrument or arrangement sponsored by the 1 February and 19 May–6 June United Nations and are thus related to the Organization and Chairperson: Yanghee Lee (Republic of Korea) its work. These bodies, often referred to as “treaty organs”, are Membership: 18 serviced by the United Nations Secretariat and may be financed Report: A/63/41 in part or wholly from the Organization’s regular budget, as Committee against Torture authorized by the General Assembly, to which most of them report annually. Sessions: Fortieth and forty-first, Geneva, 28 April–16 May and 3–21 November Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Chairperson: Claudio Grossman (Chile) against Women (CEDAW) Membership: 10 Sessions: Fortieth, Geneva, 14 January–1 February; forty-first, Reports: A/63/44, A/64/44 New York, 30 June–18 July Conference on Disarmament Chairperson: Dubravka Šimonović (Croatia) Meetings: Geneva, 23 January–28 March, 12 May–27 June, 28 July– Membership: 22 12 September Report: A/63/38 President: Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela (successively) Committee on the Elimination Membership: 65 of Racial Discrimination (CERD) Report: A/63/27 Sessions: Seventy-second and seventy-third, Geneva, 18 February– Human Rights Committee 7 March and 28 July–15 August Chairperson: Fatimata-Binta Victoire Dah (Burkina Faso) Sessions: Ninety-second, New York, 17 March–4 April; ninety-third Membership: 18 and ninety-fourth, Geneva, 7–25 July and 13–31 October Report: A/63/18 Chairperson: Rafael Rivas-Posada (Colombia) Membership: 18 Committee on the Protection Reports: A/63/40 (Vol. I), A/64/40 (Vol. I) of the Rights of All Migrant Workers International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) and Members of Their Families Sessions: Ninety-first, ninety-second and ninety-third, Vienna, Sessions: Eighth and ninth, Geneva, 14–25 April and 24–28 November 4–8 February, 19–30 May and 28 October–14 November Chairperson: Abdelhamid El Jamri (Morocco) President: Hamid Ghodse (Iran) Membership: 10 Membership: 13 Reports: A/63/48, A/64/48 Report: E/INCB/2008/1

Principal members of the United Nations Secretariat11

Secretariat Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director, Counter-Terrorism

The Secretary-General: Ban Ki-moon Committee: Mike Smith Assistant Secretaries-General: Haile Menkerios, Angela Kane Deputy Secretary-General: Asha-Rose Migiro (until May) Executive Office of the Secretary-General Office of the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General Under-Secretary-General, Chef de Cabinet: Vijay Nambiar on the Prevention of Genocide Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Chef de Cabinet: Kim Won- soo Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Francis Deng Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning: Robert Orr Office for Disarmament Affairs Office of Internal Oversight Services High Representative: Sergio de Queiroz Duarte Under-Secretary-General: Inga-Britt Ahlenius Department of Peacekeeping Operations Office of Legal Affairs Under-Secretary-General: Jean-Marie Guéhenno (until July), Under-Secretary-General, Legal Counsel: Nicolas Michel (until July); Alain Le Roy (from July) Patricia O’Brien (from August) Assistant Secretaries-General: Edmond Mulet, Jane Holl Lute (until Assistant Secretary-General: Larry D. Johnson (until August); May) Peter Taksøe-Jensen (from August) Department of Field Support Department of Political Affairs Officer-in-Charge: Jane Holl Lute (until May) Under-Secretary-General: B. Lynn Pascoe Under-Secretary-General: Susana Malcorra (from May) 1682 Appendix III

Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Bader Al-Dafa Relief Coordinator: John Holmes Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator: United Nations Office at Geneva Catherine Bragg Under-Secretary-General, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva: Sergei Ordzhonikidze Department of Economic and Social Affairs Under-Secretary-General: Sha Zukang Office of the United Nations High Commissioner Assistant Secretary-General, Special Adviser on Gender Issues and for Human Rights Advancement of Women: Rachel Mayanja Under-Secretary-General, High Commissioner: Louise Arbour Assistant Secretaries-General: Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Patrizio M. (until August), Navanethem Pillay (From September) Civili (until March), Thomas Stelzer (from March) Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy High Commissioner: Kyung- wha Kang Department for General Assembly and Conference Management United Nations Office at Vienna Under-Secretary-General: Muhammad Shaaban Under-Secretary-General, Director-General of the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General: Yohannes Mengesha Office at Vienna and Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime: Antonio Maria Costa Department of Public Information United Nations Office at Nairobi Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public Information: Kiyotaka Akasaka Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi: Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka Department of Safety and Security International Court of Justice Registry Under-Secretary-General: David Veness Assistant Secretary-General, Registrar: Philippe Couvreur Department of Management Under-Secretary-General: Alicia Bárcena Ibarra (until May), Angela Kane (from May) Secretariats of subsidiary organs, special representatives and other related bodies OFFICE OF PROGRAMME PLANNING, BUDGET AND ACCOUNTS Assistant Secretary-General, Controller: Warren Sach (until August), Jun Yamazaki (from August) International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO Executive Director: Patricia Francis OFFICE OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT Assistant Secretary-General: Jan Beagle (until April), Catherine Pollard Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed (from April) Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States OFFICE OF CENTRAL SUPPORT SERVICES Assistant Secretary-General: Warren Sach (from August) Under-Secretary-General, High Representative: Cheick Sidi Diarra CAPITAL MASTER PLAN PROJECT Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director: Michael Adlerstein on Africa Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Cheick Sidi Diarra Office of Information and Communications Technology Assistant Secretary-General, Chief Information Technology Officer: Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General Choi Soon-Hong on the International Compact with Iraq and Other Issues Office of the United Nations Ombudsman Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Assistant Secretary-General, Ombudsman: Nora Galer (Officer-in- Office of the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General Charge until April), Johnston Barkat (from April) for Myanmar Peacebuilding Support Office Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Ibrahim Gambari Assistant Secretary-General: Carolyn McAskie (until August), Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Jane Holl Lute (from August) for Children and Armed Conflict United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative: Radhika Coomar- aswamy Assistant Secretary-General, Chief Executive Officer: Bernard G. Cochemé Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for West Africa Economic Commission for Africa Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative: Said Djinnit Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Abdoulie Janneh Office of the United Nations High Commissioner Economic Commission for Europe for Refugees Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Marek Belka Under-Secretary-General, High Commissioner: António Manuel de Economic Commission for Latin America Oliveira Guterres and the Caribbean Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: José Luis Machinea for the Middle East (until June), Alicia Bárcena Ibarra (from July) Under-Secretary-General, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary- General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Noeleen Heyzer Palestinian Authority: Robert H. Serry Structure of the United Nations 1683

Special Adviser to the Secretary-General Assistant Administrator and Regional Director, UNDP Arab States: on Latin American Issues Amat Al Aleem Ali Alsoswa Assistant Administrator and Regional Director, UNDP Asia and the Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Diego Cordovez Pacific:Ajay Chhibber (from April) Assistant Administrator and Regional Director, UNDP Europe Special Representative of the Secretary-General and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Kori Udovicki for the Sudan Assistant Administrator and Regional Director, UNDP Latin America and the Caribbean: Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative: Ashraf Jehangir Qazi United Nations Environment Programme Assistant Secretary-General, Principal Deputy Special Represent- ative: Tayé-Brook Zerihoun (until April) Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Achim Steiner Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director: Angela United Nations Children’s Fund Cropper Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Yvo de Boer Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Ann M. Veneman Assistant Secretaries-General, Deputy Executive Directors: Hilde United Nations Human Settlements Programme Johnson, Omar Abdi, Saad Houry Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka United Nations Compensation Commission United Nations Institute for Training and Research Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Mojtaba Kazazi Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director: Carlos Lopes United Nations Conference on Trade and Development United Nations Population Fund Under-Secretary-General: Supachai Panitchpakdi Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Thoraya Ahmed Obaid United Nations Development Programme United Nations Office for Project Services Administrator: Kemal Dervis Under-Secretary-General, Associate Administrator: Ad Melkert Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director: Jan Mattsson Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau for Crisis Prevention United Nations Relief and Works Agency and Recovery: Kathleen Cravero for Palestine Refugees in the Near East Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau for Resources and Strategic Partnerships: Bruce Jenks Under-Secretary-General, Commissioner-General: Karen Koning Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau of Management: Akiko AbuZayd Yuge Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Commissioner-General: Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau for Development Policy: Filippo Grandi Olav Kjørven United Nations University Assistant Administrator and Regional Director, UNDP Africa: Gilbert Fossoun Houngbo (until September) Under-Secretary-General, Rector: Konrad Osterwalder

Notes

1 Elected on 4 June 2008 (dec. 62/416). 2 Elected on 4 June 2008 (dec. 62/418). 3 One of the Main Committees that met during the resumed session. 4 Elected by the Committees; announced by the Assembly President on 4 June 2008 (dec. 62/417). 5 Appointed on 16 September 2008 (dec. 63/401). 6 Formerly known as the “High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries” and renamed by the Assembly in December 2003 (res. 58/220). 7 Also an advisory subsidiary body of the General Assembly. 8 Mandate terminated on 31 June 2008 (res. 1827(2008)). 9 Mandate ended on 30 September 2008 and the mission was succeeded by UNIPSIL on 1 October 2008 (res. 1829(2008)). 10 Established on 1 October 2008 (res. 1829(2008)). 11 As at 30 June 2008, the total number of staff of the United Nations Secretariat with continuous service or expected service of a year or more was 39,503. Of these, 9,892 were in the Professional and higher categories, 1,250 were experts (200-series Project Personnel staff) and 28,361 were in the General Service and related categories. Appendix IV Agendas of the United Nations principal organs in 2008

This appendix lists the items on the agendas of the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council during 2008. For the Assembly, the column headed “Allocation” indicates the assignment of each item to plenary meetings or committees.

General Assembly

Agenda items remaining for consideration at the resumed sixty-second session (23 December 2007–15 September 2008) [decision 62/546, A/62/49 (Vol. II)]

Item No. Title Allocation 10. Report of the Peacebuilding Commission. Plenary 11. Elimination of unilateral extraterritorial coercive economic measures as a means of political and Plenary economic compulsion. 14. Prevention of armed conflict. Plenary 15. The situation in Central America: progress in fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and Plenary development. 16. Protracted conflicts in the guam area and their implications for international peace, security and Plenary development. 17. The situation in the Middle East. Plenary 18. Question of Palestine. Plenary 20. The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. Plenary 22. Question of Cyprus. Plenary 23. Armed aggression against the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Plenary 24. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Plenary 25. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti. Plenary 26. Armed Israeli aggression against the Iraqi nuclear installations and its grave consequences for the Plenary established international system concerning the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and international peace and security. 27. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against Kuwait. Plenary 28. Declaration of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity on the Plenary aerial and naval military attack against the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya by the present United States Administration in April 1986. 34. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects. 4th 43. Report of the Economic and Social Council. Plenary 44. Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on hiv/aids and the Political Declaration on hiv/aids. Plenary 45. Sport for peace and development: Plenary (a) Sport for peace and development; (b) Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal. 46. Global road safety crisis. Plenary 48. Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations Plenary conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields. 53. Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Plenary Development: (a) Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development. 54. Sustainable development: 2nd (d) Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind. 57. Groups of countries in special situations: 2nd (b) Specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries: outcome of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries; and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation. 64. New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support: Plenary (a) New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support; (b) Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa.

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Item No. Title Allocation 86. The rule of law at the national and international levels. 6th 98. General and complete disarmament: 1st (g) Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament. 108. Measures to eliminate international terrorism. 6th 109. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization. Plenary 110. Report of the Secretary-General on the Peacebuilding Fund. Plenary 113. Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections: Plenary (a) Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination; (c) Election of five members of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission; (d) Election of fifteen members of the Human Rights Council. 114. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other appointments: Plenary (i) Approval of the appointment of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 115. Admission of new members to the United Nations. Plenary 116. Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit. Plenary 117. United Nations reform: measures and proposals. Plenary 118. The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy. Plenary 121. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly. Plenary 122. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and Plenary related matters. 123. Strengthening of the United Nations system. Plenary 124. Follow-up to the recommendations on administrative management and internal oversight of the Plenary Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme. 125. Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors: 5th (a) United Nations peacekeeping operations; (b) Capital master plan; (c) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; (d) United Nations Office for Project Services. 126. Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations. 5th 127. Programme budget for the biennium 2006–2007. 5th 128. Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008–2009. 5th 129. Programme planning. Plenary and all Committees 130. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations. 5th 131. Pattern of conferences. 5th 132. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations. 5th 133. Human resources management. 5th 134. Joint Inspection Unit. 5th 135. United Nations common system. 5th 136. Report on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services. 5th 137. Administration of justice at the United Nations. 5th 138. Financing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide 5th and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994. 139. Financing of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations 5th of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. 140. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations. 5th 141. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Burundi. 5th 142. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire. 5th 143. Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus. 5th 144. Financing of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 5th 145. Financing of the United Nations Mission in East Timor. 5th 146. Financing of the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor. 5th 147. Financing of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste. 5th 148. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea. 5th 149. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia. 5th 150. Financing of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. 5th 151. Financing of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. 5th 152. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Liberia. 5th 153. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle East: 5th (a) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force; (b) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. 1686 Appendix IV

Item No. Title Allocation 154. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone. 5th 155. Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan. 5th 156. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara. 5th 161. Financing of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur. 5th 164. Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad. 5th

Agenda of the sixty-third session, first part (16 September–24 December 2008) [A/63/49 (Vol. I), Annex i]

Item No. Title Allocation 1. Opening of the session by the President of the General Assembly. Plenary 2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation. Plenary 3. Credentials of representatives to the sixty-third session of the General Assembly: Plenary (a) Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee; (b) Report of the Credentials Committee. 4. Election of the President of the General Assembly. Plenary 5. Election of officers of the Main Committees. 1st, 4th, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th 6. Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly. Plenary 7. Organization of work, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items: reports of the General Committee. Plenary 8. General debate. Plenary A. Maintenance of international peace and security 9. Report of the Security Council. Plenary 10. Report of the Peacebuilding Commission. Plenary 11. The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict. Plenary 12. Prevention of armed conflict. Plenary 13. Protracted conflicts in the guam area and their implications for international peace, security and development. Plenary 14. Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic. Plenary 15. The situation in the Middle East. Plenary 16. Question of Palestine. Plenary 17. The situation in Afghanistan. Plenary 18. The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. Plenary 19. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of Plenary America against Cuba. 20. The situation in Central America: progress in fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and Plenary development. 21. Question of Cyprus. Plenary 22. Armed aggression against the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Plenary 23. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Plenary 24. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti. Plenary 25. Armed Israeli aggression against the Iraqi nuclear installations and its grave consequences for the Plenary established international system concerning the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and international peace and security. 26. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against Kuwait. Plenary 27. Effects of atomic radiation. 4th 28. International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space. 4th 29. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. 4th 30. Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the 4th Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories. 31. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects. Plenary, 4th 32. Questions relating to information. 4th 33. Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United 4th Nations. 34. Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing 4th Territories. 35. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples 4th by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations. 36. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories. 4th 37. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. 4th 38. Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East 2nd Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources. 39. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and 3rd displaced persons and humanitarian questions. Agendas of the United Nations principal organs in 2008 1687

Item No. Title Allocation B. Promotion of sustained economic growth and sustainable development in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and recent United Nations conferences 40. Report of the Economic and Social Council. Plenary 41. Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on hiv/aids and the Political Declaration on hiv/aids. Plenary 42. Sport for peace and development. Plenary 43. 2001–2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa. Plenary 44. Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations Plenary conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields. 45. Culture of peace. Plenary 46. Information and communication technologies for development. 2nd 47. Macroeconomic policy questions: 2nd (a) International trade and development; (b) International financial system and development; (c) External debt and development: towards a durable solution to the debt problems of developing countries; (d) Commodities. 48. Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the 2002 International Conference on Financing 2nd for Development and the preparation of the 2008 Review Conference. 49. Sustainable development: 2nd (a) Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development; (b) Follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States; (c) International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; (d) Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind; (e) Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa; (f) Convention on Biological Diversity; (g) Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its tenth special session. 50. Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and 2nd strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). 51. Globalization and interdependence: 2nd (a) Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence; (b) International migration and development; (c) Culture and development; (d) Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of assets of illicit origin and returning such assets, in particular to the countries of origin, consistent with the United Nations Convention against Corruption; (e) Integration of the economies in transition into the world economy. 52. Groups of countries in special situations: Plenary, 2nd (a) Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries; (b) Specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries: outcome of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation. 53. Eradication of poverty and other development issues: 2nd (a) Implementation of the second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017); (b) Industrial development cooperation. 54. Operational activities for development. 2nd 55. Social development: 3rd (a) Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty- fourth special session of the General Assembly; (b) Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family; (c) Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing; (d) United Nations Literacy Decade: education for all; (e) Review and appraisal of the World Programme of Action concerning Disabled Persons. 56. Advancement of women: 3rd (a) Advancement of women; (b) Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women and of the twenty- third special session of the General Assembly. 155. Recognition of sickle-cell anaemia as a public health priority. Plenary 1688 Appendix IV

Item No. Title Allocation C. Development of Africa 57. New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support: Plenary (a) New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support; (b) Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa. D. Promotion of human rights 58. Report of the Human Rights Council. Plenary, 3rd 59. Holocaust remembrance. Plenary 60. Promotion and protection of the rights of children: 3rd (a) Promotion and protection of the rights of children; (b) Follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children. 61. Indigenous issues: 3rd (a) Indigenous issues; (b) Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People. 62. Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance: 3rd (a) Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance; (b) Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. 63. Right of peoples to self-determination. 3rd 64. Promotion and protection of human rights: Plenary, 3rd (a) Implementation of human rights instruments; (b) Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms; (c) Human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives; (d) Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action; (e) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. E. Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance efforts 65. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, Plenary including special economic assistance: (a) Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations; (b) Special economic assistance to individual countries or regions; (c) Assistance to the Palestinian people. F. Promotion of justice and international law 66. Report of the International Court of Justice. Plenary 67. Report of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Plenary Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994. 68. Report of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of Plenary International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. 69. Report of the International Criminal Court. Plenary 70. Oceans and the law of the sea: Plenary (a) Oceans and the law of the sea; (b) Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments. 71. Request for an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on whether the unilateral declaration Plenary of independence of Kosovo is in accordance with international law. 72. Nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States. 6th 73. Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission. 6th 74. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its forty-first 6th session. 75. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its sixtieth session. 6th 76. Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of 6th victims of armed conflicts. 77. Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and 6th consular missions and representatives. 78. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the 6th Role of the Organization. 79. The rule of law at the national and international levels. 6th Agendas of the United Nations principal organs in 2008 1689

Item No. Title Allocation G. Disarmament 80. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Plenary 81. Reduction of military budgets. 1st 82. Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and 1st new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament. 83. Maintenance of international security—good-neighbourliness, stability and development in South- 1st Eastern Europe. 84. Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament. 1st 85. Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international 1st security. 86. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East. 1st 87. Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the 1st use or threat of use of nuclear weapons. 88. Prevention of an arms race in outer space. 1st 89. General and complete disarmament: 1st (a) Notification of nuclear tests; (b) Missiles; (c) Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus; (d) Disarmament and non-proliferation education; (e) Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament measures; (f) Transparency in armaments; (g) Information on confidence-building measures in the field of conventional arms; (h) Mongolia’s international security and nuclear-weapon-free status; (i) Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central Asia; (j) Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and collecting them; (k) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction; (l) Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments; (m) Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non-proliferation; (n) Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control; (o) Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament; (p) Effects of the use of armaments and ammunitions containing depleted uranium; (q) Reducing nuclear danger; (r) Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction; (s) Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas; (t) Regional disarmament; (u) Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons; (v) Nuclear disarmament; (w) Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities; (x) Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels; (y) Confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context; (z) The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects; (aa) Relationship between disarmament and development; (bb) United Nations conference to identify appropriate ways of eliminating nuclear dangers in the context of nuclear disarmament. 90. Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General 1st Assembly: (a) United Nations disarmament fellowship, training and advisory services; (b) United Nations Disarmament Information Programme; (c) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean; (d) United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament; (e) Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons; (f) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific; (g) Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa; (h) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa. 1690 Appendix IV

Item No. Title Allocation 91. Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly 1st at its tenth special session: (a) Report of the Disarmament Commission; (b) Report of the Conference on Disarmament. 92. The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. 1st 93. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May 1st Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects. 94. Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region. 1st 95. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. 1st 96. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological 1st (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction. H. Drug control, crime prevention and combating international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations 97. Crime prevention and criminal justice. 3rd 98. International drug control. 3rd 99. Measures to eliminate international terrorism. 6th I. Organizational, administrative and other matters 100. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization. Plenary 101. Report of the Secretary-General on the Peacebuilding Fund. Plenary 102. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations. Plenary 103. Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs: Plenary (a) Election of five non-permanent members of the Security Council; (b) Election of eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council; (c) Election of five members of the International Court of Justice. 104. Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections: Plenary (a) Election of twenty members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination; (b) Election of seven members of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission; (c) Election of eighteen members of the Human Rights Council. 105. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other appointments: Plenary, 5th (a) Appointment of members of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions; (b) Appointment of members of the Committee on Contributions; (c) Confirmation of the appointment of members of the Investments Committee; (d) Appointment of members of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal; (e) Appointment of members of the International Civil Service Commission; (f) Appointment of members and alternate members of the United Nations Staff Pension Committee. (g) Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences; (h) Appointment of a member of the Joint Inspection Unit; (i) Confirmation of the appointment of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme; (j) Confirmation of the appointment of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; (k) Appointment of the judges of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal; (l) Appointment of the judges of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal. 106. Admission of new Members to the United Nations. Plenary 107. Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit. Plenary 108. Follow-up to the commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic Plenary slave trade. 109. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations. Plenary 110. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly. Plenary and all Committees 111. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related Plenary matters. 112. Strengthening of the United Nations system. Plenary 113. Multilingualism. Plenary 114. Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations: Plenary (a) Cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union; (b) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization; (c) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations; (d) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization; (e) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community; (f) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries; (g) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe; Agendas of the United Nations principal organs in 2008 1691

Item No. Title Allocation (h) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Community of Central African States; (i) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization; (j) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Eurasian Economic Community; (k) Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization of la Francophonie; (l) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union; (m) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American Economic System; (n) Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States; (o) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons; (p) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe; (q) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of American States; (r) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference; (s) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Pacific Islands Forum; (t) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization; (u) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Southern African Development Community. 115. Follow-up to the recommendations on administrative management and internal oversight of the Plenary Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme. 116. Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors: 5th (a) United Nations; (b) United Nations peacekeeping operations; (c) International Trade Centre unctad/wto; (d) United Nations University; (e) Capital master plan; (f) United Nations Development Programme; (g) United Nations Children’s Fund; (h) United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East; (i) United Nations Institute for Training and Research; (j) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; (k) Fund of the United Nations Environment Programme; (l) United Nations Population Fund; (m) United Nations Human Settlements Programme; (n) Fund of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme; (o) United Nations Office for Project Services; (p) International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994; (q) International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. 117. Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations. 5th 118. Programme budget for the biennium 2008–2009. 5th 119. Programme planning. Plenary and all Committees 120. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations. 5th 121. Pattern of conferences. 5th 122. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations. 5th 123. Human resources management. 5th 124. Joint Inspection Unit. 5th 125. United Nations common system. 5th 126. United Nations pension system. 5th 127. Administrative and budgetary coordination of the United Nations with the specialized agencies and 5th the International Atomic Energy Agency. 128. Report on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services. 5th 129. Administration of justice at the United Nations. 5th, 6th 130. Financing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide 5th and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994. 131. Financing of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of 5th International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. 1692 Appendix IV

Item No. Title Allocation 132. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations. 5th 133. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Burundi. 5th 134. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire. 5th 135. Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus. 5th 136. Financing of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 5th 137. Financing of the United Nations Mission in East Timor. 5th 138. Financing of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste. 5th 139. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea. 5th 140. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia. 5th 141. Financing of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. 5th 142. Financing of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. 5th 143. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Liberia. 5th 144. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle East: 5th (a) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force; (b) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. 145. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone. 5th 146. Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan. 5th 147. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara. 5th 148. Financing of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur. 5th 149. Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad. 5th 150. Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country. 6th 151. Observer status for the South Centre in the General Assembly. 6th 152. Observer status for the Agency for International Trade Information and Cooperation in the General 6th Assembly. 153. Observer status for the University for Peace in the General Assembly. 6th 154. Judges of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations Plenary of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. 156. Observer status for the International Fund for Saving the Aral Sea in the General Assembly. 6th

Security Council Questions considered during 2008 The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. The situation in the Middle East. The situation in Cyprus. The situation concerning Western Sahara. The situation in Timor-Leste. The situation between Iraq and Kuwait. The situation in Liberia. The situation in Somalia. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Security Council resolutions 1160(1998), 1199(1998), 1203(1998), 1239(1999) and 1244(1999) [Kosovo]. International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. The situation concerning Rwanda. International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994. The situation in Georgia. The question concerning Haiti. The situation in Burundi. The situation in Afghanistan. The situation in Sierra Leone. Relations between Cameroon and Nigeria. The situation in the Great Lakes region. The situation concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The situation in the Central African Republic. The situation between Eritrea and Ethiopia. Children and armed conflict. The situation in Guinea-Bissau. Agendas of the United Nations principal organs in 2008 1693

Protection of civilians in armed conflict. Small arms. Women and peace and security. Briefing by the President of the International Court of Justice. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries [unfycip, undof, unifil, minurso, unomig, monusco, unmee, unmil, minuci, minustah, unmis, unamid, minurcat]. Briefing by the Chairperson-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts. The situation in Côte d’Ivoire. Security Council mission [Africa]. Briefings by Chairpersons of subsidiary bodies of the Security Council. Cross-border issues in West Africa. Non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. Reports of the Secretary-General on the Sudan. Post-conflict peacebuilding. The situation concerning Iraq. Non-proliferation. The situation in Myanmar. Request of Nepal for United Nations assistance in support of its peace process [Report of the Secretary-General]. Maintenance of international peace and security: role of the Security Council in supporting security sector reform. United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy for Central Asia. Maintenance of international peace and security, including mediation and settlement of disputes; and strengthening collective security through general regulation and reduction of armaments. The situation in Chad, the Central African Republic and the subregion. Peace and security in Africa [general issues, as well as Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mauritania, and Djibouti and Eritrea]. Briefing by the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator. Communications concerning the India-Pakistan question. Security Council mission [Afghanistan]. The situation in Chad and the Sudan. Other matters considered during 2008 Security Council documentation and working methods and procedure. Consideration of the draft report of the Security Council to the General Assembly. International Court of Justice [election of members].

Economic and Social Council

Agenda of the organizational and resumed organizational session for 2008 (14 January, 5 and 8 February, 14 and 29 April, 20–22 May and 20 June 2008)

Item No. Title 1. Election of the Bureau. 2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters. 3. Basic programme of work of the Council. 4. Elections, nominations, confirmations and appointments.

Agenda of the substantive and resumed substantive sessions of 2008 (30 June–25 July, 12 September and 19 December 2008)

Item No. Title 1. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters. High-level segment 2. High-level segment: (a) High-level policy dialogue with international financial and trade institutions on current developments in the world economy; (b) Development Cooperation Forum; (c) Annual ministerial review: Implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to sustainable development; (d) Thematic discussion: Promoting an integrated approach to rural development in developing countries for poverty eradication and sustainable development, taking into account current challenges. 1694 Appendix IV

Item No. Title Operational activities segment 3. Operational activities of the United Nations for international development cooperation: (a) Follow-up to policy recommendations of the General Assembly and the Council; (b) Reports of the Executive Boards of the United Nations Development Programme/United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Food Programme. Coordination segment 4. The role of the United Nations system in implementing the Ministerial Declaration of the high-level segment of the substantive session of 2007 of the Council. Humanitarian affairs segment 5. Special economic, humanitarian and disaster relief assistance. General segment 6. Implementation of and follow-up to major United Nations conferences and summits: (a) Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development; (b) Review and coordination of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010. 7. Coordination, programme and other questions: (a) Reports of coordination bodies; (b) Proposed strategic framework for the period 2010–2011; (c) International cooperation in the field of informatics; (d) Long-term programme of support for Haiti; (e) Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system; (f) Ad hoc advisory groups on African countries emerging from conflict; (g) Tobacco or health. 8. Implementation of General Assembly resolutions 50/227, 52/12 B, 57/270 B and 60/265, including 61/16. 9. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations. 10. Regional cooperation. 11. Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan. 12. Non-governmental organizations. 13. Economic and environmental questions: (a) Sustainable development; (b) Science and technology for development; (c) Statistics; (d) Human settlements; (e) Environment; (f) Population and development; (g) Public administration and development; (h) International cooperation in tax matters; (i) Assistance to third States affected by the application of sanctions; (j) Cartography; (k) Women and development. 14. Social and human rights questions: (a) Advancement of women; (b) Social development; (c) Crime prevention and criminal justice; (d) Narcotic drugs; (e) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; (f) Comprehensive implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action; (g) Human rights; (h) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues; (i) Genetic privacy and non-discrimination. 15. United Nations research and training institutes. Appendix V United Nations information centres and services (as at December 2011)

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PORT OF SPAIN. United Nations Information KATHMANDU. United Nations Information Centre Centre MANILA. United Nations Information Centre Bretton Hall (2nd floor) Harihar Bhavan GC Corporate Plaza (ex Jaka II Building) (5th floor) 150 Legaspi Street, Legaspi Village 16 Victoria Avenue (P.O. Box 107, UN House) (P.O. Box 130) Kathmandu, Nepal (P.O. Box 7285 ADC (DAPO), Pasay City) Makati City, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I. Serving: Nepal 1229 Metro Manila, Philippines Serving: Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Serving: Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Solomon Islands Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, KHARTOUM. United Nations Information Jamaica, Netherlands Antilles, Centre Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, United Nations Compound House #7, Blk 5 MASERU. United Nations Information Centre Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago Gamma’a Avenue United Nations Road (P.O. Box 1992) UN House Khartoum, Sudan (P.O. Box 301, Maseru 100) PRAGUE. United Nations Information Centre Serving: Somalia, Sudan Maseru, Lesotho nam. Kinskych 6 15000 Prague 5, Czech Republic Serving: Lesotho Serving: Czech Republic LAGOS. United Nations Information Centre MEXICO CITY. United Nations Information PRETORIA. United Nations Information Centre 17 Alfred Rewane (ex Kingsway) Road, Ikoyi Centre Metro Park Building (P.O. Box 1068) Montes Urales 440 (3rd floor) 351 Schoeman Street Lagos, Nigeria Colonia Lomas de Chapultepec (P.O. Box 12677), Tramshed Mexico City, D.F. 11000, Mexico Serving: Nigeria Pretoria, South Africa 0126 Serving: Cuba, Dominican Republic, Serving: South Africa Mexico LA PAZ. United Nations Information Centre RABAT. United Nations Information Centre Calle 14 esq. S. Bustamante MOSCOW. United Nations Information Edificio Metrobol II, Calacoto Centre 6 Angle Avenue Tarik Ibn Ziyad et rue (Apartado Postal 9072) Roudana La Paz, Bolivia 4/16 Glazovsky Pereulok (Boîte postale 601, Casier ONU, Rabat-Chellah) Moscow 119002, Russian Federation Rabat, Morocco Serving: Bolivia Serving: Russian Federation Serving: Morocco

LIMA. United Nations Information Centre RIO DE JANEIRO. United Nations Information NAIROBI. United Nations Information Centre Lord Cochrane 130 Centre San Isidro (L-27) Palácio Itamaraty (P.O. Box 14-0199) United Nations Office, Gigiri Av. Marechal Floriano 196 Lima, Peru (P.O. Box 30552-00200) 20080-002 Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil Nairobi, Kenya Serving: Peru Serving: Brazil Serving: Kenya, Seychelles, Uganda SANA’A. United Nations Information LOME. United Nations Information Centre Centre NEW DELHI. United Nations Information 468, Angle rue Atime Centre Street 5, Off Albawnya Area Avenue de la Libération Handhel Zone, beside Handhal Mosque (Boîte postale 911) 55 Lodi Estate (P.O. Box 237) Lomé, Togo New Delhi 110 003, India Sana’a, Yemen Serving: Benin, Togo Serving: Bhutan, India Serving: Yemen United Nations information centres and services 1697

SANTIAGO. United Nations Information Service, TUNIS. United Nations Information Centre . United Nations Information Economic Commission for Latin America Centre and the Caribbean 41 Bis, Av. Louis Braille, Cité El Khadra (Boîte postale 863) United Nations House Edificio Naciones Unidas 1003 Tunis, Tunisia 38-44 Stein Street, Klein Avenida Dag Hammarskjöld 3477 (Private Bag 13351) Vitacura Serving: Tunisia Windhoek, Namibia (Casilla 179-D), Santiago, Chile Serving: Namibia Serving: Chile, ECLAC VIENNA. United Nations Information Service, United Nations Office at Vienna YANGON. United Nations Information TEHRAN. United Nations Information Centre Vienna International Centre Centre Wagramer Strasse 5 No. 8, Shahrzad Blvd. Darrous (P.O. Box 500, 1400 Vienna) 6 Natmauk Road, (P.O. Box 15875-4557, Tehran) 1220 Vienna, Austria Tamwe Township Tehran, Iran (P.O. Box 230) Serving: Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, Yangon, Myanmar Serving: Iran Slovenia Serving: Myanmar

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Note: For more information on unics, please visit the website: unic.un.org. Appendix VI Intergovernmental organizations related to the United Nations (Direction as at December 2008) International Atomic Energy Agency FAO maintains liaison offices in World Bank (IAEA) Brussels, Geneva, Washington, D.C., (IBRD and IDA) Vienna International Centre and Yokohama, Japan; regional offices 1818 H Street, NW Wagramer Strasse, 5 in Accra, Ghana; Bangkok, Thailand; Washington, D.C. 20433, U.S.A. Cairo, Egypt; and Santiago, Chile; and P.O. Box 100 subregional offices in Apia, Samoa; Telephone: (1) (202) 473-1000 1400 Vienna, Austria Bridgetown, Barbados; Budapest, Fax: (1) (202) 477-6391 Telephone: (43) (1) 2600-0 Hungary; Harare, Zimbabwe; and E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (43) (1) 2600-7 Tunis, Tunisia. Internet: www.worldbank.org E-mail: [email protected] Director General: Robert B. Zoellick Internet: www.iaea.org United Nations Educational, Scientific (United States) Director General: Mohamed El Baradei and Cultural Organization (Egypt) (UNESCO) The World Bank Mission UNESCO House to the United Nations IAEA Office at the United Nations Place de Fontenoy, 7 1 Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza 1 United Nations Plaza, Room 1155 75352 Paris 07-SP, France 885 Second Avenue, 26th floor New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Telephone: (33) (0) (1) 45-68-10-00 New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Telephone: (1) (212) 963-6010/6011 Fax: (33) (0) (1) 45-67-16-90 Telephone: (1) (212) 355-5112 Fax: (1) (917) 367-4046 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (1) (212) 355-4523 E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.unesco.org Director General: Koïchiro Matsuura The World Bank maintains offices (Japan) in Brussels, Belgium; Frankfurt, International Labour Organization Germany; Geneva; London; (ILO) Paris; Sydney, Australia; and Route des Morillons, 4 UNESCO Office Tokyo. 1211 Geneva 22, Switzerland at the United Nations 2 United Nations Plaza, Room 900 Telephone: (41) (22) 799-6111 International Finance Corporation Fax: (41) (22) 798-8685 New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. (IFC) E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: (1) (212) 963-5995 2121 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Internet: www.ilo.org Fax: (1) (212) 963-8014 Washington, D.C. 20433, U.S.A. Director General: Juan Somavía (Chile) E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: (1) (202) 473-3800 Fax: (1) (202) 974-4384 ILO Office at the United Nations World Health Organization E-mail: [email protected] 220 East 42nd Street, Suite 3101 (WHO) Internet: www.ifc.org New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Avenue Appia, 20 Executive Vice President & CEO: Telephone: (1) (212) 697-5218 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland Lars H. Thunell (Sweden) Fax: (1) (212) 697-0150 Telephone: (41) (22) 791-2111 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (41) (22) 791-3111 IFC c/o the World Bank, E-mail: [email protected] Office of the Special Representative Internet: www.who.int to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization 1 Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza of the United Nations (FAO) Director General: Dr. Margaret Chan (China) 885 Second Avenue, 26th floor Viale delle Terme di Caracalla New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. 00153 Rome, Italy Telephone: (1) (212) 355-5112 Telephone: (39) (06) 57051 WHO Office at the United Nations Fax: (1) (212) 355-5523 Fax: (39) (06) 5705-3152 1 Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, 885 Second Avenue, 26th floor E-mail: [email protected] New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. International Monetary Fund Internet: www.fao.org Telephone: (1) (646) 626-6060 (IMF) Director General: Jacques Diouf (Senegal) Fax: (1) (646) 626-6080 700 19th Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20431, U.S.A. FAO Office at the United Nations Telephone: (1) (202) 623-7000 1 United Nations Plaza, Room 1125 WHO is a decentralized Fax: (1) (202) 623-4661 New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. organization, with regional offices in Brazzaville, Congo; Cairo, Egypt; E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: (1) (212) 963-6036 Copenhagen, Denmark; Manila, Internet: www.imf.org Fax: (1) (212) 963-5425 Philippines; New Delhi, India; and Managing Director: Dominique Strauss- E-mail: [email protected] Washington, D.C. Kahn (France)

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IMF WMO United Nations Industrial Office at the United Nations Office at the United Nations Development 1 Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza 866 United Nations Plaza, Room A-302 Organization (UNIDO) 885 Second Avenue, 26th floor New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Vienna International Centre New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Telephone: (1) (917) 367-9867 Wagramer Strasse, 5 Telephone: (1) (212) 317-4720 Fax: (1) (917) 367-9868 P.O. Box 300 Fax: (1) (212) 317-4733 E-mail: [email protected] 1400 Vienna, Austria Telephone: (43) (1) 26026-0 IMF maintains offices in Geneva, International Maritime Organization Fax: (43) (1) 269-2669 Paris and Tokyo. (IMO) E-mail: [email protected] 4, Albert Embankment Internet: www.unido.org International Civil Aviation Organization London SE1 7SR Director General: Kandeh K. Yumkella (ICAO) United Kingdom (Sierra Leone) 999 University Street Telephone: (44) (207) 735-7611 Montréal, Quebec H3C 5H7, Canada Fax: (44) (207) 587-3210 UNIDO Telephone: (1) (514) 954-8219 E-mail: [email protected] Office at Geneva Fax: (1) (514) 954-6077 Internet: www.imo.org Palais des Nations E-mail: [email protected] Director General: Efthimios E. Mitropoulos Le Bocage, Rooms 77-82 Internet: www.icao.int (Greece) Avenue de la Paix 8-14 Secretary-General: Taïeb Chérif (Algeria) 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland World Intellectual Property Organization Telephone: (41) (22) 917-1434 ICAO maintains regional offices (WIPO) Fax: (41) (22) 917-0059 in Bangkok, Thailand; Cairo, Egypt; Chemin des Colombettes, 34 E-mail: [email protected] Dakar, Senegal; Lima, Peru; Mexico City; P.O. Box 18 Nairobi; and Paris. 1211 Geneva 20, Switzerland UNIDO Telephone: (41) (22) 338-9111 Universal Postal Union Office in New York (UPU) Fax: (41) (22) 733-5428 1 United Nations Plaza, Room 1118 Weltpost Strasse, 4 E-mail: [email protected] New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Case Postale 3000 Internet: www.wipo.int Telephone: (1) (212) 963-6890 3000 Berne 15, Switzerland Director General: Kamil Idris (Sudan) Fax: (1) (212) 963-7904 Telephone: (41) (31) 350-3111 (until October 2008) E-mail: [email protected] Fax: (41) (31) 350-3110 Francis Gurry (Australia) E-mail: [email protected] World Trade Organization Internet: www.upu.int WIPO (WTO) Director General: Edouard Dayan (France) Office at the United Nations Centre William Rappard 2 United Nations Plaza, Room 2525 Rue de Lausanne, 154 International Telecommunication Union New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. 1211 Geneva 21, Switzerland (ITU) Telephone: (1) (212) 963-6813 Telephone: (41) (22) 739-5111 Place des Nations Fax: (1) (212) 963-4801 Fax: (41) (22) 731-4206 1211, Geneva 20, Switzerland E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: (41) (22) 730-5111 Internet: www.wto.org Fax: (41) (22) 733-7256 International Fund for Agricultural Director General: Pascal Lamy E-mail: [email protected] Development (IFAD) (France) Internet: www.itu.int Via Paolo di Dono, 44 Secretary-General: Hamadoun Touré (Mali) 00142 Rome, Italy World Tourism Organization Telephone: (39) (06) 54591 (UNWTO) ITU maintains regional offices in Fax: (39) (06) 504-3463 Capitán Haya, 42 Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Brasilia, Brazil; E-mail: [email protected] 28020 Madrid, Spain Cairo, Egypt; Bangkok, Thailand; and Internet: www.ifad.org Telephone: (34) (91) 567-8100 Geneva. President: Lennart Båge Fax: (34) (91) 571-3733 (Sweden) E-mail: [email protected] World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Internet: www.unwto.org IFAD Secretary-General: Francesco Frangialli 7 bis, avenue de la Paix Office at the United Nations Case postale 2300 (France) 2 United Nations Plaza, Rooms 1128-29 1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland New York, NY 10017, U.S.A. Telephone: (41) (22) 730-8111 UNWTO maintains a regional support Telephone: (1) (212) 963-0546 Fax: (41) (22) 730-8181 office for Asia and the Pacific in Osaka, Fax: (1) (212) 963-2787 Japan. E-mail: [email protected] Internet: www.wmo.ch IFAD maintains offices in President: Alexander Bedritsky (Russia) Eschbom, Germany, and Secretary-General: Michel Jarraud (France) Washington, D.C.