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Structure of the United Nations Appendix II Structure of the United Nations GENERAL ASSEMBLY The General Assembly is composed of all Member States of the Sixty-ninth session4 United Nations. First Committee SESSIONS • Chairperson: Courtenay Rattray (Jamaica) • Vice-Chairpersons: Saad Abdullah N. Al Saad (Saudi Arabia), María • Resumed sixty-eighth session: 29 January–15 September Victoria González Román (Spain), Narcisa Daciana Vlãdulescu • Sixty-ninth session: 16 September–29 December (suspended) (Romania) OFFICERS • Rapporteur: Saada Daher Hassan (Djibouti) Resumed sixty-eighth session Fourth Committee • President: John William Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda) • Chairperson: Durga Prasad Bhattarai (Nepal) • Vice-Presidents: Botswana, Cameroon, Chile, China, France, Gua- • Vice-Chairpersons: Inese Freimane-Deksne (Latvia), Mordehai temala, Guinea, Malaysia, Monaco, Romania, Russian Federation, Amihai (Israel), George S.W Patten (Liberia) Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Spain, Thailand, Timor-Leste, • Rapporteur: Gabriel Orellana Zabalza (Guatemala) Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, United States Second Committee Sixty-ninth session • Chairperson: Sebastiano Cardi (Italy) • President: Sam Kutesa (Uganda)1 • Vice-Chairperson: Tishka Francis (Bahamas), Tarik Iziraren • Vice-Presidents2: Argentina, Burkina Faso, China, Cyprus, Demo- (Morocco), Aleksandra Stepowska (Poland) cratic Republic of the Congo, France, Georgia, Grenada, Iceland, • Rapporteur: Borg Tsien Tham (Singapore) Kiribati, Libya, Niger, Oman, Pakistan, Portugal, Russian Federa- tion, Saint Lucia, Swaziland, Tajikistan, United Kingdom, United Third Committee States • Chairperson: Sofia Mesquita Borges (Timor-Leste) The Assembly has four types of committees: (1) Main Committees; • Vice-Chairpersons: Kurt Davis (Jamaica), Pierre Faye (Senegal), (2) procedural committees; (3) standing committees; (4) subsid- Johanna Nilsson (Sweden) iary and ad hoc bodies. In addition, it convenes conferences to • Rapporteur: Ervin Nina (Albania) deal with specific subjects. Fifth Committee MAIN COMMITTEES • Chairperson: František Ružička (Republic of Slovakia) • Vice-Chairpersons: Paula Coto-Ramírez (Costa Rica), Aline Mu- By resolution 47/233, the General Assembly rationalized its Com- ka shyaka (Republic of Rwanda), Madhuka Sanjaya Wickrama- mittee structure as follows: rachchige (Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka) • Disarmament and International Security Committee (First Com- • Rapporteur: Matthias Dettling (Switzerland) mittee); • Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Com- Sixth Committee mittee); • Chairperson: Tuvako Nathaniel Manongi (United Republic of • Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee); Tanzania) • Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (Third Committee); • Vice-Chairpersons: Fernanda Millicay (Argentina), Mirza Pašić • Administrative and Budgetary Committee (Fifth Committee); (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Hossein Gharibi (Iran) • Legal Committee (Sixth Committee). • Rapporteur: Salvatore Zappalà (Italy) The General Assembly may constitute other committees, on which all Members of the United Nations have the right to be PROCEDURAL COMMITTEES represented. General Committee • The General Committee consists of the President of the General OFFICERS OF THE MAIN COMMITTEES Assembly, as Chairperson, the 21 Vice-Presidents and the Resumed sixty-eighth session Chairpersons of the six Main Committees. Fourth Committee3 Credentials Committee • Chairperson: Carlos Enrique García González (El Salvador) • Vice-Chairpersons: Mafiroane Motanyane (Lesotho), Christina • The Credentials Committee consists of nine members Rafti (Cyprus), Francesco Santillo (Italy) appointed by the General Assembly on the proposal of the • Rapporteur: Michal Komada (Slovakia) President. Resumed Sixty- eighth session Fifth Committee3 • Belgium, China, Colombia, Gabon, Guyana, Russian Federation, • Chairperson: Janne Taalas (Finland) Singapore, United Republic of Tanzania, United States • Vice-Chairpersons: Carlos Alejandro Funes (El Salvador), Joanna Fiodorow (Republic of Poland), Kodjovi Dosseh (Togo) Sixty-ninth session5 • Rapporteur: Ken Siah (Singapore) • Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Denmark, Jamaica, Namibia, Russian Federation, Senegal, United States 1 Elected on 11 June 2014 (General Assembly dec. 68/418). 2 Elected on 11 June 2014 (General Assembly dec. 68/419). 4 Elected on 31 July 2014 (General Assembly dec. 68/423). 3 One of the Main Committees that met during the resumed session. 5 Appointed on 16 September 2014 (General Assembly dec. 69/401). 1 2 Appendix II STANDING COMMITTEES Ad Hoc Committee on Criminal Accountability of United • The two standing committees consist of experts appointed in Nations Officials and Experts on Mission their individual capacity for three-year terms. • Session: Did not meet in 2014 • Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary or members of the specialized agencies or of IAEA Questions (ACABQ) • To serve until 31 December 2014: Bruno Brant (Brazil), Pavel Chernikov Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly (Russian Federation), Dietrich Lingenthal (Germany), Jean Christian resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996 Obame (Gabon), David Traystman (United States) • Session: Did not meet in 2014 • To serve until 31 December 2015: Jasminka Dinić (Croatia), • Membership: Open to all Member States of the United Nations or Mohanad Al-Musawi (Iraq), Babou Sene (Senegal), Tesfa Alem member States of the specialized agencies or of IAEA Seyoum (Eritrea). Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean • To serve until 31 December 2016: Toshihiro Aiki (Japan), Conrod Hunte (Antigua and Barbuda), Richard Moon (United Kingdom), • Meeting: Did not meet in 2014 Carlos Ruiz Massieu (Mexico), Devesh Uttam (India), Catherine • Membership: 43 Vendat (France), Ye Xuenong (China)6 Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters On 18 November 2014 (dec. 69/407 A), the General Assembly ap- • Sessions: Sixty-first, New York, 5–7 March 2014, sixty-second, pointed the following persons for a three-year term beginning on Geneva, 2–4 July 1 January 2014 to fill vacancies occurring on 31 December 2013: • Chairperson: István Gyarmati (Hungary) Pavel Chernikov (Russian Federation), Fernando de Oliveira Sena • Membership: 15 (plus 1 ex-officio member) (Brazil), Ali A. Ali Kurer (Libya), Dietrich Lingenthal (Germany), Da- • Report: A/69/208 vid Traystman (United States). Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme of Committee on Contributions Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider • To serve until 31 December 2014: Kunal Khatri (United Kingdom)7, Appreciation of International Law Nikolay Lozinskiy (Russian Federation), Gönke Roscher • Session: Forty-ninth, New York, 8, 13 and 14 October (Germany), Henrique da Silveira Sardinha Pinto (Brazil), Fu • Chairperson: Ken Kanda (Ghana) Daopeng (China)8, Yoo Dae-jong (Republic of Korea) • Membership: 25 • To serve until 31 December 2015: Andrzej T. Abraszewski (Poland), • Report: A/69/516 & Add.1 9 Syed Yawar Ali (Pakistan), Edward Faris (United States) , Ihor V. Board of Auditors Humennyi (Ukraine), Toshiro Ozawa (Japan)10, Josiel Motumisi Tawana (South Africa) • Sessions: Sixty-eighth (regular), New York, 23 and 24 July • To serve until 31 December 2016: Jean Pierre Diawara (Guinea), • Chairperson: Mussa Juma Assad (United Republic of Tanzania) Gordon Eckersley (Australia), Mohamed A. Elshakshuki (Libya), • Membership: 3 Bernardo Greiver Del Hoyo (Uruguay), Pedro Luis Pedroso Committee on Conferences Cuesta (Cuba), Ugo Sessi (Italy) • Sessions: New York, 23 April (organizational), 20 June (recon- On 18 November 2014 (dec. 69/408 A), the General Assembly ap- vened organizational), 2 to 8 September (substantive) pointed the following persons for a three-year term beginning • Chairperson: Yotam Goren (Israel) on 1 January 2015 to fill the vacancies occurring on 31 December • Membership: 21 2014: Fu Daopeng (China), Kunal Khatri (United Kingdom), Nikolay • Report: A/69/32 Lozinskiy (Russian Federation), Henrique da Silveira Sardinha • Decisions: GA 68/414 B, C & D, 69/412 Pinto (Brazil), Thomas Schlesinger (Austria), Yoo Dae-jong (Re- Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights public of Korea). At the same meeting Mohamed A. Elshakshuki of the Palestinian People (Libya) was appointed for a term beginning on 18 November 2014 and ending on 31 December 2016. On 10 December 2014, Toshiro • Meetings: Throughout the year Ozawa (Japan) was appointed for a term beginning on 21 Decem- • Chairperson: Abdou Salam Diallo (Senegal), Fodé Seck (Senegal) ber 2014 and ending on 31 December 2015. (started in October) • Membership: 26 SUBSIDIARY AND AD HOC BODIES • Report: A/69/35 The following is a list of subsidiary and ad hoc bodies functioning Committee on Information in 2014, including the number of members, dates of meetings/ sessions in 2014, document numbers of reports (which generally • Session: Thirty-sixth, New York, 28 April–9 May provide specific information on membership) and relevant deci- • Chairperson: Lyutha Al-Mughairy (Oman) sion numbers pertaining to elections. • Membership: 114 • Report: A/69/21 Ad Hoc Committee on the Administration of Justice at the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space United Nations • Session: Fifty-seventh, Vienna, 11–20 June • Session: Did not meet in 2014 • Chairperson: Azzedine Oussedik (Algeria) • Membership: Open to all Member States of the United Nations or • Membership: 76 member States of the specialized agencies or
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