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GENERAL ASSEMBLY

The General Assembly is composed of all Member States of the Seventy-first session4 United Nations. First Committee SESSIONS • Chairperson: Sabri Boukadoum (Algeria) • Vice-Chairpersons: Kamapradipta Isnomo (Indonesia), Maria • Resumed seventieth session: 22 January–13 September Sole​dad Urruela Arenales (Guatemala), Rene Zeleny (Czech • Seventy-first session: 13 September–23 December (suspended) Republic) OFFICERS • Rapporteur: Darren Hansen (Australia) Resumed seventieth session Fourth Committee • President: Mogens Lykketoft (Denmark) • Chairperson: Vladimir Drobnjak () • Vice-Presidents2: Azerbaijan, Benin, Cameroon, China, Colombia, • Vice-Chairpersons: Juan Antonio Benard Estrada (Guatemala), Ecuador, Egypt, Eritrea, France, Italy, Kazakhstan, Mozambique, Hossein Maleki (Islamic Republic of Iran), Wouter Poels (Belgium) Nauru, Paraguay, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, Togo, • Rapporteur: Awale Ali Kullane () United Kingdom, United States, Yemen Second Committee Seventy-first session • Chairperson: Dian Triansyah Djani (Indonesia) • President: Peter Thomson (Fiji)1 • Vice-Chairpersons: Arthur Andambi (Kenya), Ignacio Diaz de la • Vice-Presidents2: Armenia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belgium, Guardia (Spain), Galina Nipomici (Republic of Moldova) Belize, China, Congo, Côte d’ivoire, Djibouti, El Salvador, France, • Rapporteur: Glauco Seoane (Peru) Germany, Mauritania, , Nigeria, Russian Federation, Solomon Islands, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, United Third Committee States, Zambia • Chairperson: María Emma Mejía (Colombia) The Assembly has four types of committees: (1) Main Committees; • Vice-Chairpersons: Masni Eriza (Indonesia), Karina Wegrzynowska (2) procedural committees; (3) standing committees; (4) subsid- (Poland), Andreas Glossner (Germany) iary and ad hoc bodies. In addition, it convenes conferences to • Rapporteur: Cecile Mbala Eyenga (Cameroon) deal with specific subjects. Fifth Committee 5 MAIN COMMITTEES • Chairperson: Inga Rhonda King (Saint Vincent and the Grenadines) • Vice-Chairpersons: Marcio Burity (Angola), Stefan Pretterhofer By resolution 47/233, the General Assembly rationalized its Com- (Austria), Marina Nikodijevic (Serbia) mittee structure as follows: • Rapporteur: Diana Lee (Singapore) • Disarmament and International Security Committee (First Sixth Committee Committee); • Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth • Chairperson: Danny Danon (Israel) Committee); • Vice-Chairpersons: Bilal Ahmad (Pakistan), Kaswamu Katota • Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee); (Zambia), Zoltán Turbék (Hungary) • Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (Third Committee); • Rapporteur: Isaias Medina () • Administrative and Budgetary Committee (Fifth Committee); • Legal Committee (Sixth Committee). PROCEDURAL COMMITTEES The General Assembly may constitute other committees, on which General Committee all Members of the United Nations have the right to be represented. The General Committee consists of the President of the General Assembly, as Chairperson, the 21 Vice-Presidents and the Chair- OFFICERS OF THE MAIN COMMITTEES persons of the six Main Committees. Resumed seventieth session Credentials Committee Fourth Committee3 The Credentials Committee consists of nine members appointed • Chairperson: Brian Bowler (Malawi) by the General Assembly on the proposal of the President. • Vice-Chairpersons: Abdulaziz Aljarralah (Kuwait), Danijel Medan (Croatia), Jose Eduardo Proaño (Ecuador) Resumed seventieth session • Rapporteur: Clotilde Ferry (Monaco) Argentina, Austria, Barbados, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Kazakhstan, Fifth Committee3 Russian Federation, South Africa, United States • Chairperson: Durga Prasad Bhattarai (Nepal) Seventy-first session6 • Vice-Chairpersons: Bachar Bong Abdallah (Chad), Omar Cameroon, China, Malawi, , Paraguay, Republic of Castañeda Solares (Guatemala), Yotam Goren (Israel) Korea, Russian Federation, Saint Lucia, United States • Rapporteur: Gert Auväärt (Estonia)

1 Elected on 13 June 2016 (General Assembly dec. 70/421). 4 Elected on 13 June 2016 (General Assembly dec. 70/423). 2 Elected on 13 June 2016 (General Assembly dec. 70/422). 5 Elected on 3 October 2016 (General Assembly dec. 71/402). 3 One of the Main Committees that met during the resumed session. 6 Appointed on 13 September 2016 (General Assembly dec. 71/401).

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STANDING COMMITTEES • Membership: Open to all Member States of the United Nations or member States of the specialized agencies or of IAEA The two standing committees consist of experts appointed in their individual capacity for three-year terms. Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean • Meeting: Did not meet in 2016 Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary • Membership: 43 Questions (ACABQ) • To serve until 31 December 2016: Takeshi Akamatsu (Japan), Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters Carmel Power (United Kingdom)7, Carlos Ruizmassieu (Mexico), • Sessions: Sixty-fifth, Geneva, 27–29 January; sixty-sixth, New Devesh Uttam (India), Catherine Vendat (France), Ye Xuenong York, 29 June–1 July (China) • Chairperson: Mely Caballero Anthony (Philippines) • To serve until 31 December 2017: Pavel Chernikov (Russian • Membership: 15 (plus 1 ex-officio member) Federation), Fernando De Oliveira Sena (Brazil), Ali A. Ali Kurer • Report: A/71/176 (Libya), Dietrich Lingenthal (Germany), David Traystman (United States) Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme • To serve until 31 December 2018: Ihor Humennyi (Ukraine), of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination Conrod Hunte (Antigua and Barbuda), Eihab Omaish (Jordan), and Wider Appreciation of International Law Babou Sene (Senegal), Tesfa Alem Seyoum (Eritrea) • Session: Fifty-first, New York, 4 October On 10 November 2016 (dec. 71/405 A), the General Assembly ap- • Chairperson: Martha Ama Akyaa Pobee (Ghana) pointed the following persons for a three-year term beginning on • Membership: 25 1 January 2017 to fill vacancies occurring on 31 December 2016: • Report: A/71/432 Takeshi Akamatsu (Japan), Marcel Jullier (Switzerland), Mahesh Ku- Board of Auditors mar (India), Carlos Ruiz Massieu (Mexico), Catherine Vendat (France), • Sessions: Seventieth (regular), New York, 26 July Ye Xuenong (China). • Chairperson: Shashi Kant Sharma (India) Committee on Contributions • Membership: 3 • To serve until 31 December 2016: Jean Pierre Diawara (Guinea), Committee on Conferences Gordon Eckersley (Australia), Mohamed A. Elshakshuki (Libya), • Sessions: New York, 25 April (organizational), 6–13 September Bernardo Greiver del Hoyo (Uruguay), Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta (substantive) (Cuba), Ugo Sessi (Italy) • Chairperson: Katalin Annamária Bogyay (Hungary) • To serve until 31 December 2017: Fu Daopeng (China), Simon • Membership: 21 8 Hough (United Kingdom) , Nikolay Lozinskiy (Russian Federation), • Report: A/71/32 Henrique da Silveira Sardinha Pinto (Brazil), Thomas Schlesinger • Decisions: GA 70/406 B, 71/411 A (Austria), Yoon Seongmee (Republic of Korea) • To serve until 31 December 2018: Syed Yawar Ali (Pakistan), Jasminka Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights Dinić (Croatia), Edward Faris (United States), Toshiro Ozawa (Japan), of the Palestinian People Tõnis Saar (Estonia), Josiel Motumisi Tawana (South Africa) • Meetings: Throughout the year On 10 November 2016 (dec. 71/406 A), the General Assembly ap- • Chairperson: Fodé Seck (Senegal) pointed the following persons for a three-year term beginning • Membership: 26 on 1 January 2017 to fill the vacancies occurring on 31 December • Report: A/71/35 2016: Cheikh Tidiane Dème (Senegal), Gordon Eckersley (Australia), Committee on Information Bernardo Greiver del Hoyo (Uruguay), Ugo Sessi (Italy), Alejandro Torres Lépori (Argentina). • Session: Thirty-eight, New York, 26 April–6 May • Chairperson: Kaha Imnadze (Georgia) SUBSIDIARY AND AD HOC BODIES • Membership: 115 • Report: A/71/21 The following is a list of subsidiary and ad hoc bodies functioning in 2016, including the number of members, dates of meetings/ Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space sessions in 2016, document numbers of reports (which generally • Session: Fifty-ninth, Vienna, 8–17 June provide specific information on membership) and relevant deci- • Chairperson: David Kendall (Canada) sion numbers pertaining to elections. • Membership: 83 • Report: A/71/20 Ad Hoc Committee on the Administration of Justice at the United Nations Committee for Programme and Coordination (CPC) • Session: Did not meet in 2016 • Sessions: Fifty-sixth, New York, 21 April (organizational), 31 • Membership: Open to all Member States of the United Nations or May–24 June (substantive) member States of the specialized agencies or of IAEA • Chairperson: Lorena Aymara Giménez Jiménez (Venezuela) • Membership: 34 Ad Hoc Committee on Criminal Accountability • Report: A/71/16 of United Nations Officials and Experts on Mission • Decision: GA 71/414 • Session: Did not meet in 2016 • Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations Committee on Relations with the Host Country or members of the specialized agencies or of IAEA • Meetings: New York, 3 February, 19 April, 29 July, 29 September and 21 October Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly • Chairperson: Nicholas Emiliou (Cyprus) resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996 • Membership: 19 (including the United States as host country) • Session: Did not meet in 2016 • Report: A/71/26 Committee for the United Nations Population Award 7 Appointed on 1 April 2016 (General Assembly dec. 70/407 B) to fill the • Chairperson: Marcelo Scappini Ricciardi (Paraguay) vacancy created by the resignation of Richard Moon. • Membership: 10 (plus the Secretary-General and the UNFPA 8 Appointed on 13 May 2016 (General Assembly dec. 70/408 B) to fill the Executive Director as ex-officio members) vacancy created by the resignation of Kunal Khatri.

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• Report: A/71/155 • Decision: GA 70/419, 71/413 A • Decisions: ESC 2016/201 B, D Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Disarmament Commission Refugees (UNHCR) • Sessions: New York, 19 January (organizational); 4–22 April Executive committee of the high commissioner’s programme (substantive) • Session: Sixty-seventh, 3–7 October • Chairperson: Odo Tevi (Vanuatu) • Chairperson: Carsten Staur (Denmark) • Membership: All UN Members • Membership: 98 • Report: A/71/42 • Report: A/71/12/Add.1 High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation • High Commissioner: Filippo Grandi (Italy) • Session: Nineteenth, New York, 16-19 May Panel of External Auditors • President: Oana Rebedea (Romania) • Meeting: Fifty-seventh, New York, 21–22 November • Membership: All Member States of the United Nations • Membership: Members of the UN Board of Auditors and the • Report: A/71/39 appointed external auditors of the specialized agencies and IAEA Human Rights Council Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations • Sessions: Twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth (special), 21 October and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization and 14 December; thirty-first, thirty-second and thirty-third • Meetings: New York, 16, 17 and 24 February (regular), 29 February–24 March, 13 June–1 July and 8 July, • Chairperson: Janine Elizabeth Coye-Felson (Belize) 13–30 September, all in New York • Membership: Open to all Member States of the United Nations • President: Choi Kyonglim (Republic of Korea) • Report: A/71/33 • Membership: 47 • Reports: A/71/53, A/71/53/Add.1, 2, A/71/53/Add.1, 2/Corr.1, Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices • Decision: GA 71/403 Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories Independent Audit Advisory Committee • Chairperson: Amrith Rohan Perera () • Sessions: Thirty-third, 17–19 February; thirty-fourth, 4–6 May; • Membership: 3 thirty-fifth, 25–27 July, thirty-sixth, 28–30 November; all in • Reports: A/71/352 New York • Chairperson: Joseph Christopher Mihm, Jr. (United States) Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations • Membership: 5 • Session: New York, 16 February–11 March • Reports: A/71/295 • Chairperson: Usman Sarki (Nigeria) • Decision: GA 71/409 • Membership: 151 • Report: A/70/19 International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) • Sessions: Eighty-second, New York, 7–18 March; eighty-third, Special Committee on the Situation with regard 25–5 August, Geneva to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting • Chairperson: Kingston P. Rhodes (Sierra Leone) of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples • Membership: 15 • Session: New York, 25 February and 12 April (first part); 17 June • Reports: A/71/30 (extraordinary); 13, 14, 17, 20, 21, 23, 24 and 30 June (second part) • Decision: GA 71/408 A • Chairperson: Rafael Darío Ramírez Carreño (Venezuela) Advisory Committee on Post Adjustment Questions • Membership: 29 • Report: A/71/23 • Session: Thirty-eighth, Paris, 15–22 February • Chairperson: Aldo Mantovani (Italy) United Nations Commission on International Trade Law • Membership: 6 (UNCITRAL) International Law Commission • Session: Forty-ninth, Vienna, 27 June–16 July • Chairperson: Gaston Kenfack Douajni (Cameroon) • Session: Sixty-eighth, Geneva, 2 May–10 June, 4 July–12 August • Membership: 60 • Chairperson: Pedro Comissário Afonso (Mozambique) • Report: A/71/17 • Membership: 34 • Decision: GA 70/405 B, C • Report: A/71/10 • Decision: GA 71/404 United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine Investments Committee • Membership: 3 • Report: A/71/335 • Chairperson: Madhav Dhar (India) • Membership: 9 (plus ad hoc members) United Nations Conference on Trade and Development • Decision: GA 71/407 (UNCTAD) Joint Advisory Group on the International Trade Centre • Session: Fourteenth, Nairobi, 17–22 July UNCTAD/WTO • Membership: Open to all Member States of the United Nations or member States of the specialized agencies or of IAEA • Session: Fiftieth, Geneva, 4 July • Report: TD/519 & Add.1 & Add.2 & Corr.1 • Chairperson: Negash Kebret Botora (Federal Democratic Republic • Secretary-General of UNCTAD: Mukhisa Kituyi (Kenya) of Ethiopia) • Membership: Open to all member States of UNCTAD and all Trade and Development Board member States of WTO • Sessions: Thirtieth (special), 13 June; sixty-second, sixty-third • Report: ITC/AG(L)/264 (executive), 25–26 January, 27–29 September; sixty-third (executive resumed), 11 October; sixty-third (annual), 5–9 December; all in Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) Geneva • Chairpersons: Gopinathan Achamkulangare (India) • President: Christopher Onyanga Aparr () (special, executive, • Membership: 11 executive resumed and annual) • Report: A/71/34 • Membership: Open to all members States of UNCTAD

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• Reports: A/71/15 (Part I-II), A/72/15 (Part I) • Chairperson: Taous Feroukhi (Algeria) Investment, Enterprise and Development Commission • Membership: 16 • Report: UNITAR/BT/57/3 • Session: Eight, Geneva, 16 November • Executive Director: Nikhil Seth (India) • Chairperson: Robert Waller (United States) • Membership: Open to all members States of UNCTAD United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board • Report: TD/B/C.II/33 • Sessions: Sixty-third, Vienna, 14–22 July Trade and Development Commission • Chairperson: Vladimir Yossifov (Bulgaria) • Session: Eight, Geneva, 4 November • Membership: 33 • Chairperson: Faiçal Souissi (Morocco) • Report: A/71/9 • Membership: Open to all members States of UNCTAD • Chief Executive Officer of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension • Report: TD/B/C.I/40 Board: Sergio B. Arvizu (Mexico) Intergovernmental Group of Experts on Competition Law United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine and Policy Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) • Session: Fifteenth, Geneva, 19–21 October Advisory Commission of UNRWA • Chairperson: Esteban Manuel Greco (Argentina) • Meeting: Amman, Jordon, 30–31 May • Membership: Open to all members States of UNCTAD • Chairperson: Ali Mustafa (Syrian Arab Republic) • Report: TD/B/C.I/CLP/40 • Membership: 25 (plus 3 observers) Working Party on the Strategic Framework and the Programme • Report: A/71/13 Budget Working Group on the Financing of UNRWA • Sessions: Seventy-third, 5–7 September; seventy-fourth, 28 • Meeting: New York, 30 June, 14, 26 July and 9, 16 August November–2 December, all in Geneva • Chairperson: Makbule Başak Yalçın (Turkey) • Chairpersons: Uwe Petry (Germany) (seventy-third); Tehmina • Membership: 9 Janjua (Pakistan) (seventy-fourth) • Report: A/71/350 • Membership: Open to all members States of UNCTAD • Commissioner-General of UNRWA: Pierre Krähenbühl (Switzerland) • Reports: TD/B/WP/281, TD/B/WP/283 United Nations Scientific Committee United Nations Entity for Gender Equality on the Effects of Atomic Radiation and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women) • Session: Sixty-third, Vienna, 27 June–1 July Executive Board • Chairperson: Yoshiharu Yonekura (Japan) • Session: New York, First (regular), 9 February; (annual), 27–28 • Membership: 27 June; second (regular), 1–2 September • Report: A/71/46 • President: Mohamed Khaled Khiari (Tunisia) United Nations Staff Pension Committee • Reports: UNW/2016/3, UNW/2016/7, UNW/2016/10 • Executive Director: Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka (South Africa) • Membership: 8 • Decision: ESC 2016/201 D • Decision: GA 71/410 United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) United Nations University (UNU) UN Environment Assembly Council of the United Nations University • Session: Second, Nairobi, 23–27 May • Session: Sixty-fifth, Vienna, 3–4 May; sixty-sixth, Tokyo, 13–14 • Membership: 10 December • Reports: A/71/25 • Chairperson: Radha Kumar (India) • Executive Director: Achim Steiner (Germany/Brazil) (until May), • Membership: 12, the UNU Rector (plus 3 ex-officio members (UN Erik Solheim9 (Norway) Secretary-General, UNESCO Director-General, UNITAR Executive • Decisions: GA 70/420 Director)) • Rector of the University: David M. Malone (Canada) United Nations Human Settlements Programme • Report: E/2017/51 (UN-Habitat) United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations Governing Council Board of trustees • Session: Did not meet in 2016 • Membership: 58 • Session: Twenty-ninth, Geneva, 18–22 January • Executive Director of UN-Habitat: Joan Clos (Spain) • Chairperson: Anne Nuorgam (Finland) • Decisions: ESC 2016/201 C & D • Membership: 5 • Report: A/71/228 United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture Board of trustees Board of trustees • Sessions: Sixty-fifth, Geneva, 27–29 January; sixty-sixth, New • Sessions: Forty-third and forty-fourth, Geneva, 4–8 April and York, 29 June–1 July 3–7 October • Chairperson: Mely Caballero Anthony (Philippines) • Chairperson: Gaby Oré Aguilar (Peru) • Membership: 15 (plus 1 ex-officio member) • Membership: 5 • Reports: A/70/176 • Reports: A/71/289, A/HRC/34/17 • Director of UNIDIR: Jarmo Sareva (Finland) United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary United Nations Institute for Training and Research Forms of Slavery (UNITAR) Board of trustees Board of trustees • Session: Twenty-first, Geneva, 28 November–2 December • Sessions: Fifty-seventh, Geneva, 17–18 November • Chairperson: Nevena Vučković-Šahović (Serbia) • Membership: 5 • Reports: A/72/229 9 Elected on 13 May 2016 (General Assembly dec. 70/420).

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SECURITY COUNCIL

The Security Council consists of 15 Member States of the United International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) Nations (five permanent members and ten non-permanent mem- • President: Carmel Agius (Malta) bers), in accordance with the provisions of Article 23 of the United • Under-Secretary-General, Prosecutor: Serge Brammertz (Belgium) Nations Charter as amended in 1965. • Assistant Secretary-General, Registrar: John Hocking (Australia) MEM BErs International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) • Permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, United • President: Vagn Joensen (Denmark) Kingdom, United States • Under-Secretary-General, Prosecutor: Hassan Bubacar Jallow • Non-permanent members: Angola, Egypt, Spain, Japan, Malaysia, (Gambia) New Zealand, Senegal, Ukraine, Uruguay, Venezuela • Assistant Secretary-General, Registrar: Bongani Majola (South Africa) On 28 and 30 June 2016 (dec. 70/403 B), the General Assembly elected Bolivia, Ethiopia, Ktaly, Kazakhstan, Sweden for a two- ADVISORY SUBSIDIARY BODY year term beginning on 1 January 2017, to Angola, Malaysia, Peacebuilding Commission (PBC)10 New Zealand, Spain, Venezuela whose terms of office expired on 31 December 2016. Organizational Committee • Session: Tenth, New York, (1 January–31 December) PRESIDENT • Chairperson: Macharia Kamau (Kenya) The presidency of the Council rotates monthly, according to the • Membership: 31 English alphabetical listing of its Member States. The following • Report: A/71/768 served as President during 2016: • Decisions: GA 71/415 A; ESC 2016/201 A, C & D Month Member Representative PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS January Uruguay Elbio Rosselli United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) February Venezuela Rafael Darío Ramírez Carreño • Head of Mission, Chief of Staff: Major General Arthur David Gawn March Angola Gaspar Martins (New Zealand) April China Liu Jieyi United Nations Military Observer Group in India May Egypt Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) June France François Delattre • Chief Military Observer: Major General Delali Johnson Sakyi July Japan Koro Bessho (Ghana) (until July), Major General Per Lodin (Sweden) August Malaysia Ramlan Bin Ibrahim United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) Ahmad Zahid Hamidi • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of September New Zealand Gerard van Bohemen Mission: Lisa M. Buttenheim (United States) (until June), Elizabeth John Key Spehar (Canada) October Russian Federation Vitaly Churkin • Force Commander: Major General Kristin Lund (Norway) (until November Senegal Fodé Seck July), Major General Mohammad Humayun Kabir (Bangladesh) December Spain Román Oyarzun Marchesi United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) • Head of Mission and Force Commander: Major General Purna MILITARY STAFF COMMITTEE Chandra Thapa (Nepal) (until February), Major General Jai The Military Staff Committee consists of the chiefs of staff of the Shanker Menon (India) permanent members of the Security Council or their representa- tives. It meets fortnightly. United Nations Interim Force in (UNIFIL) • Force Commander: Major General Luciano Portolano (Italy) (until STANDING COMMITTEES July), Major General Michael Beary (Ireland) Each of the three standing committees of the Security Council is United Nations Mission for the Referendum composed of representatives of all Council members: in Western Sahara (MINURSO) • Committee of Experts (to examine the provisional rules of • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of procedure of the Council and any other matters entrusted to Mission: Kim Bolduc (Canada) it by the Council); • Force Commander: Major General Muhammad Tayyab Azam • Committee on the Admission of New Members; (Pakistan) (until November), Major General Wang Xiaojun (China) • Committee on Council Meetings Away from Headquarters. United Nations Interim Administration Mission SUBSIDIARY BODIES in Kosovo (UNMIK) Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Zahir Tanin • Chairperson: Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta (Egypt) (Afghanistan) • Membership: 15 • OSCE Head of Mission in Kosovo: Jean-Claude Schlumberger (France) (until September), Jan Braathu (Norway) United Nations Compensation Commission • Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Governing Council Christopher Coleman (United States) • Sessions: Eighty-first, Geneva, 2 November United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission • President: Ana María Menéndez Pérez (Spain) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) • Membership: 15 • Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Maman S. Sidikou • Reports: S/2016/938 (Niger) 1540 Committee • Chairperson: Román Oyarzun Marchesi (Spain) 10 Also an advisory subsidiary body of the General Assembly.

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• Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General: David POLITICAL, PEACEBUILDING AND OTHER MISSIONS Gressly (United States) • Force Commander: Lieutenant General Derrick Mbuyiselo United Nations Integrated Peace-building Office Mgwebi (South Africa) in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNIOGBIS: Miguel Trovoada (São Tomé and Príncipe) (until • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of April), Modibo Touré (Mali) Mission: Farid Zarif (Afghanistan) • Deputy Special Representative for Peace Consolidation, Resident United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) Coordinator and Representative: Antonio Vigilante (Italy) (until • Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Somalia and July), Yagoub El Hillo (Sudan) Head of UNSOM: Michael Keating (United Kingdom) • Deputy Special Representative for Rule of Law: Waldemar Vrey • Deputy Special Representative, Resident, Humanitarian (South Africa) Coordinator for Somalia: Peter de Clercq (Netherlands) • Force Commander: Major General Salihu Zaway Uba (Nigeria) Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) for the Middle East Peace Process (UNSCO) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of • Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Personal Mission: Aïchatou Mindaoudou Souleymane (Niger) Representative of the Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation • Deputy Special Representative: M’Baye Babacar Cissé (Senegal) Organization and the Palestinian Authority: Nickolay Mladenov • Force Commander: Major General Didier L’Hôte (France) (Bulgaria) United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) • Deputy Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process: Robert Piper (Australia) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Sandra Honoré (Trinidad and Tobago) Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator • Deputy Special Representative for Rule of Law: Carl Alexandre of the Secretary-General for Lebanon (UNSCOL) (United States) • Special Coordinator of the Secretary-General for Lebanon: Sigrid • Deputy Special Representative and the Resident Coordinator and Kaag (Netherlands) Humanitarian Coordinator: Mourad Wahba (Egypt) • Deputy Special Coordinator, Resident and Humanitarian • Force Commander: Lieutenant-General Ajax Porto Pinheiro Coordinator for Lebanon: Philippe Lazzarini (Switzerland) (Brazil) United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) (UNOWAS)11 • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of • Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Mohammed Ibn Mission: Ellen Margrethe Løj (Denmark) Chambas (Ghana) • Deputy Special Representative (Political): Moustapha Soumaré • Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Hiroute (Mali) Guebre Sellassie (Ethiopia) • Deputy Special Representative and Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator: Eugene Owusu (Ghana) United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) • Force Commander: Lieutenant-General Yohannes Gebremeskel • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Tesfamariam (Ethiopia) (until June), Lieutenant General Johnson Mission: Nicholas Haysom (South Africa) (until March), Tadamichi Mogoa Kimani Ondieki (Kenya) Yamamoto (Japan) • Deputy Special Representative (Resident and Humanitarian African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation Coordinator): Mark Bowden (United Kingdom) in Darfur (UNAMID) • Deputy Special Representative (Political) for Afghanistan: • AU-UN Joint Special Representative for Darfur and Head of Mission: Tadamichi Yamamoto (Japan) (until March), Pernille Dahler Martin Ihoeghian Uhomoibhi (Nigeria) Kardel (Denmark) • Deputy Joint Special Representative for Operations and Management: Bintou Keita (Guinea) United Nations Assistance Mission for (UNAMI) • Force Commander: Lieutenant General Frank Mushyo Kamanzi • Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq and Head (Rwanda) of Mission: Ján Kubiš (Slovakia) • Police Commissioner: Priscilla Makotose (Zimbabwe) • Deputy Special Representative for Political Affairs: György Busztin (Hungary) United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) • Deputy Special Representative for Resident and Humanitarian • Head of Mission and Force Commander: Major General Hassen Coordinator: Lise Grande (United States) Ebrahim Mussa (Ethiopia) United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization for Central Asia (UNRCCA) Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head UNRCCA: Petko Draganov (Bulgaria) MINUSMA: Mahamat Saleh Annadif (Chad) • Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Koen United Nations Regional Office for Central Africa (UNOCA) Davidse (Netherlands) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Abdoulaye Bathily (Senegal) (until October), François Louncény Fall United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization (Guinea) Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) MINUSCA: Parfait Onanga-Anyanga (Gabon) • Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of • Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Diane Mission: Martin Kobler (Germany) Corner (United Kingdom) • Force Commander: Lieutenant General Balla Keïta 11 On 28 January 2016 United Nations Office for West Africa (UNOWA) and the Office of the Special Envoy for the Sahel (OSES) have merged into a single entity, United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UN- OWAS).

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ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

The Economic and Social Council consists of 54 Member States of Commission on Narcotic Drugs the United Nations, elected by the General Assembly, each for a • Session: Fifty-ninth, Vienna, 14–22 March and 30 November–2 three-year term, in accordance with the provisions of Article 61 of December the United Nations Charter as amended in 1965 and 1973. • Chairperson: Galuska Vladimir (Czech Republic) • Membership: 53 MEM BErs • Reports: E/2016/28 & Add.1 • To serve until 31 December 2016: Antigua and Barbuda, Bangladesh, • Decision: ESC 2016/201 C Botswana, China, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Finland, Georgia, Guatemala, Kazakhstan, Panama, Republic of Commission on Population and Development Korea, Russian Federation, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, • Session: Forty-ninth, New York, 11–15 April United Kingdom. • Chairperson: Mwaba Patricia Kasese-Bota (Zambia) • To serve until 31 December 2017: Argentina, Brazil, Burkina Faso, • Membership: 47 Estonia, Cuba, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Honduras, • Report: E/2016/25 India, Ireland, Japan, Mauritania, Pakistan, Portugal, Trinidad • Decisions: ESC 2016/201 B & D and Tobago, Uganda, Zimbabwe. Commission on Science and Technology for Development • To serve until 31 December 2018: Afghanistan, Algeria, Australia, Belgium, Chile, Czechia, Guyana, Iraq, Italy, Lebanon, Nigeria, • Session: Nineteenth, Geneva, 9–13 May Peru, Republic of Moldova, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, • Chairperson: Peter Major (Hungary) United States, Viet Nam. • Membership: 43 • Report: E/2016/31 On 14 June 2016 (dec. 70/404 B), the General Assembly elected • Decision: ESC 2016/201 D the following for a three-year term beginning on 1 January 2017 Commission for Social Development to fill the vacancies occurring on 31 December 2016: Andorra, Azerbaijan, Benin, , Cameroon, Chad, • Session: Fifty-fourth, New York, 3–12 February China, Colombia, Norway, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation, • Chairperson: Ion Jinga (Romania) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Swaziland, Sweden, Tajikistan, • Membership: 46 United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Venezuela. • Report: E/2016/26 • Decisions: ESC 2016/201 C & D On 10 November 2016 (dec. 71/412 A), the Assembly elected Tur- key and Spain for the remaining term of office of Greece and Por- Commission on the Status of Women tugal, beginning on 1 January 2017. • Session: Sixtieth, New York, 14–24 March • Chairperson: Antonio de Aguiar Patriota (Brazil) SESSIONS • Membership: 45 • Organizational session: New York, 2 and 19 February, 14 March, • Report: E/2016/27 6 May and 28 July • Decisions: ESC 2016/201 D • Substantive session: New York, 22–24 February, 5 and 6 April, 2–4 Statistical Commission May, 1–3, 27–29 June and 7, 25–27 July • Special high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions, • Session: Forty-seventh, New York, 8–11 March WTO and UNCTAD: New York, 18–20 April • Chairperson: Wasmália Barata Bivar (Brazil) • Membership: 24 OFFICERS • Report: E/2016/24 • President: Oh Joon (Republic of Korea)12 • Decisions: ESC 2016/201 D • Vice-Presidents13: Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava (Zimbabwe), United Nations Forum on Forests Sven Jürgenson (Estonia)14, Hector Alejandro Palma Cerna • Session: Did not meet in 2016 (Honduras)15, Jürg Lauber (Switzerland)12 • Membership: Open to all Member States of the United Nations SUBSIDIARY AND OTHER RELATED ORGANS and members of the specialized agencies SU BSidiary ORGANS REGIONAL COMMISSION • The Economic and Social Council may, at each session, set Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) up committees or working groups, of the whole or of limited • Session: The forty-ninth session of the Commission/Ninth Joint membership, and refer to them any item on the agenda for Annual Meetings of the AU and ECA Conference of Ministers, study and report. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 4–5 April • Other subsidiary organs reporting to the Council consist of • Chairperson: Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (South Africa) functional commissions, regional commissions, standing • Membership: 54 committees, expert and ad hoc bodies. • The inter-agency United Nations System Chief Executives Board Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) for Coordination also reports to the Council. • Session: Did not meet in 2016 • Membership: 56 FUNCTIONAL COMMISSIONS Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) • Sessions: Twenty-fifth, Vienna, 23–27 May and 1–2 December • Chairperson: Friedrich Däuble (Germany) • Session: Thirty-sixth, Mexico, 23–27 May • Membership: 40 • Membership: 45 • Report: E/2016/30 & Add.1 Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) 12 Elected on 24 July 2015 (ESC dec. 2016/200 A). • Session: Seventy-second, Bangkok, Thailand, 15–19 May 13 Elected on 24 July 2015 (ESC dec. 2016/200 A). • Chairperson: Qohir Rasulzoda (Tajikistan) 14 Elected on 17 September 2015 (ESC dec. 2016/200 B). • Membership: 53 15 Elected on 10 December 2015 (ESC dec. 2016/200 C). • Report: E/2016/39

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Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) • Membership: 16 • Session: Twenty-Ninth, 13–15 December • Report: E/2016/43 • Chairperson: Ahmad Hasan Al Hamadi (Qatar) • Decision: ESC 2016/201 D & E • Membership: 18 United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names • Report: E/2016/41 • Sessions: Twenty-ninth, Bangkok, Thailand, 25–29 April STANDING COMMITTEES • Chairperson: William Watt (Australia) • Membership: Representatives of the 24 geographical/linguistic Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations divisions of the Group of Experts • Sessions: New York, 25 January–3 and 16 February (regular); 23 • Reports: E/2016/66 May–1 and 10 June (resumed) • Chairperson: Jorge Dotta (Uruguay) AD HOC BODY • Membership: 19 United Nations System Chief Executives Board for • Reports: E/2016/32 (Part I & II) Coordination (CEB) Committee for Programme and Coordination (CPC) • Sessions: First, Vienna, 27–28 April; second, New York, 9–10 • Sessions: Fifty-sixth, New York, 21 April (organizational), 31 November May–24 June (substantive) • Chairperson: Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon • Chairperson: Lorena Aymara Giménez Jiménez (Venezuela) • Membership: 29 • Membership: 34 • Reports: CEB/2016/1, CEB/2016/2 • Report: A/71/16 OTHER RELATED BODIES • Decisions: ESC 2016/201 B & D Joint United Nations Programme on Human Immunodeficiency EXPERT BODIES Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (UNAIDS) Committee of Experts on International Cooperation Programme Coordinating Board in Tax Matters • Meetings: Thirty-eight and thirty-nine, Geneva, 28–30 June and • Session: Twelfth and thirteenth, Geneva, 11–14 October and 5–8 6–8 December December • Chairperson: Alexandre Fasel (Switzerland) • Chairperson: Armando Lara Yaffar (Mexico) • Membership: 22 • Membership: 25 • Reports: UNAIDS/PCB (38)/16.15, UNAIDS/PCB (39)/16.16 • Report: E/2016/45 • Decision: ESC 2016/201 A–D • Executive Director of UNAIDS: Michel Sidibé (Mali) Committee for Development Policy • Session: Eighteenth, New York, 14–18 March United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) • Chairperson: José Antonio Ocampo (Colombia) Executive Board • Membership: 24 • Sessions: First and second (regular), 2–3 February and 14–16 • Report: E/2016/33 September; (annual), 14–16 June, all in New York • Decision: ESC 2016/201 B • President: Sven Jürgenson (Estonia) Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights • Membership: 36 • Report: E/2016/34/Rev.1 • Sessions: Fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth and fifty-ninth, Geneva, 22 • Decision: ESC 2016/201 D February–4 March, 6–24 June, 19 September–7 October • Executive Director of UNICEF: Anthony Lake (United States) • Chairpersons: Waleed Sadi (Jordon) • Membership: 18 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/United • Report: E/2017/22 Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)/United Nations Office • Decision: ESC 2016/201 D for Project Services (UNOPS) Committee of Experts on Public Administration Executive Board • Session: Fifteenth, New York, 18–22 April • Sessions: First and second regular, 25–28 January and 6–9 and • Chairperson: José Castelazo (Mexico) 13 September; annual, 6–10 June; all in New York • Membership: 24 • President: Zohrab Mnatsakanyan (Armenia) • Report: E/2016/44 • Membership: 36 • Report: E/2016/35 Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous • Decision: ESC 2016/201 D Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of • Administrator of UNDP: Helen Clark (New Zealand) Classification and Labelling of Chemicals • Associate Administrator: Tegegnework Gettu (Ethiopia) • Session: Eighth, Geneva, 9 December • Executive Director of UNFPA: Babatunde Osotimehin (Nigeria) • President: M. Ruskin (United States) • Executive Director of UNOPS: Grete Faremo (Norway) • Membership: 66 United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) • Reports: ST/SG/AC.10/44, ST/SG/AC.10/44/Add.1-3, ST/SG/ AC.10/44/Corr.1 The UNDP/UNFPA/UNOPS Executive Board acts as the Executive Board of the Fund. Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on • Managing Director: Helen Clark (UNDP Administrator) International Standards of Accounting and Reporting • Report: DP/2016/21 • Session: Thirty-third, Geneva, 4–6 October • Chairperson: Gerard Ee (Singapore) United Nations Volunteers (UNV) • Membership: 34 • Report: DP/2016/15 • Report: TD/B/C.II/ISAR/79 United Nations Research Institute for Social Development • Decisions: ESC 2016/201 D (UNRISD) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Board of directors • Session: Fifteenth, New York, 9–20 May • Chairperson: Maureen O’Neil (Canada) • Chairperson: Alvaro Esteban Pop (Guatemala) • Membership: 11

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• Report: Board/17/3 • Membership: 8 (plus 3 ex-officio members) • Director of UNRISD: Paul Ladd (United Kingdom) • Director: Jafar Javan (United States) United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research World Food Programme (WFP) Institute (UNICRI) Executive Board Board of Trustees • Sessions: First and second (regular), 8–10 February and 14–17 • Membership: 7 (plus 4 ex-officio members) November; (annual), 13–17 June; all in Rome • Director of UNICRI: Cindy Smith (United States) • President: Stephanie Hochstetter Skinner-Klée (Guatemala) • Membership: 36 United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC) • Reports: E/2017/36 Board of Governors • Decisions: ESC 2016/201 A, C & D • Chairperson: Edmond Mulet (Guatemala) • Executive Director of WFP: Ertharin Cousin (United States)

TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL

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

INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE

JUDGES OF THE COURT Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Den- The International Court of Justice consists of 15 Judges elected for mark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Fin- nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the Security Council. land, Gambia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Country End of Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Leso- Judge of nationality term tho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Ronny Abraham, President France 2018 Malawi, Malta, Marshall Islands, Mauritius, Mexico, Netherlands, Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, Vice-President Somalia 2018 New Zealand, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Para- guay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Senegal, Slova- Hisashi Owada Japan 2018 kia, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzer- Peter Tomka Slovakia 2021 land, Timor-Leste, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom and Uruguay. Mohamed Bennouna Morocco 2018 Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade Brazil 2021 United Nations organs and specialized and related agencies authorized to request advisory opinions from the Court Christopher Greenwood United Kingdom 2018 • Authorized by the United Nations Charter to request opinions on Xue Hanqin China 2021 any legal question: General Assembly, Security Council Joan E. Donoghue United States 2024 • Authorized by the General Assembly in accordance with the Charter Giorgio Gaja Italy 2021 to request opinions on legal questions arising within the scope of Julia Sebutinde Uganda 2021 their activities: Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Dalveer Bhandari India 2021 Interim Committee of the General Assembly, FAO, IAEA, ICAO, IDA, IFAD, IFC, ILO, IMO, IMF, ITU, UNESCO, UNIDO, WORLD BANK, Patrick Lipton Robinson Jamaica 2018 WHO, WIPO, WMO. James Richard Crawford Australia 2018 Committees of the Court Kirill Geyorgian Russian Federation 2018 BD U GETAry AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE • Registrar: Philippe Couvreur (Belgium) • Members: Ronny Abraham (Chairperson), Abdulqawi Ahmed • Deputy Registrar: Jean Pelé Fomété (Cameroon) Yusuf, Peter Tomka, Christopher Greenwood, Xue Hanqin, Julia Chamber of Summary Procedure Sebutinde, Dalveer Bhandari • Members: Ronny Abraham, Abdulqawi Ahmed Yusuf, Xue LI BRary CommiTTEE Hanqin, Joan E. Donoghue, Giorgio Gaja • Members: Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade (Chairperson), • Substitute members: Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, Kirill Giorgio Gaja, Dalveer Bhandari, Kirill Geyorgian Geyorgian RULES CommiTTEE Parties to the Court’s Statute • Members: Hisashi Owada (Chairperson), Antônio Augusto All Members of the United Nations are ipso facto parties to the Cançado Trindade, Joan E. Donoghue, Giorgio Gaja, Patrick Statute of the International Court of Justice. Lipton Robinson, James Richard Crawford, Kirill Geyorgian States accepting the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court OTHER UNITED NATIONS-RELATED BODIES Declarations made by the following States, several with reserva- The following bodies are not subsidiary to any principal organ tions, accepting the Court’s compulsory jurisdiction (or made un- of the United Nations, but were established by an international der the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice and treaty instrument or arrangement sponsored by the United Na- deemed to be an acceptance of the jurisdiction of the International tions and are thus related to the Organization and its work. These Court), were in force at the end of 2016: Australia, Austria, Barbados, bodies, often referred to as “Treaty organs”, are serviced by the

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United Nations Secretariat and may be financed in part or wholly Office of Internal Oversight Services from the Organization’s regular budget, as authorized by the • Under-Secretary-General: Heidi Mendoza General Assembly, to which most of them report annually. Office of Legal Affairs Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against • Under-Secretary-General, Legal Counsel: Miguel de Serpa Soares Women (CEDAW) • Assistant Secretary-General: D. Stephen Mathias • Sessions: Sixty-third, 15 February–4 March; sixty-fourth, 4–22 July; sixty-fifth, 24 October–18 November, all in Geneva Department of Political Affairs • Chairperson: Yoko Hayashi (Japan) • Under-Secretary-General: Jeffrey D. Feltman • Membership: 23 • Assistant Secretary-General: Miroslav Jenča • Reports: A/71/38, A/72/38 Office for Disarmament Affairs Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) • Under-Secretary-General, High Representative: Kim Won-soo • Sessions: Eighty-ninth, 25 April–13 May; ninetieth, 2–26 August; ninety-first, 21 November–9 December, all in Geneva Department of Peacekeeping Operations • Chairperson: Anastasia Crickley (Ireland) • Under-Secretary-General: Hervé Ladsous • Membership: 18 • Assistant Secretaries-General: El Ghassim Wane • Report: A/71/18, A/72/18 • Assistant Secretary-General, Military Adviser: Lieutenant General Maqsood Ahmed (until October), Lieutenant General Carlos Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Humberto Loitey Workers and Members of Their Families • Sessions: Twenty-fourth, 11–22 April; twenty-fifth, 29 August–7 Department of Field Support September; all in Geneva • Under-Secretary-General: Atul Khare • Chairperson: José Serrano Brillantes (Philippines) • Assistant Secretary-General: Anthony Banbury (until February), • Membership: 14 Hubert Price (Acting), Lisa M. Buttenheim • Reports: A/71/48, A/72/48 Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Committee on the Rights of the Child • Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency • Sessions: Seventy-first, seventy-second and seventy-third, Relief Coordinator: Stephen O’Brien Geneva, 11–19 January, 13 May–3 June, 13–30 September • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator: • Chairperson: Benyam Dawit Mezmur (Ethiopia) Kyung-wha Kang • Membership: 18 • Reports: A/71/41, A/73/41 Department of Economic and Social Affairs • Under-Secretary-General: Wu Hongbo Committee against Torture • Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development: Lenni • Sessions: Fifty-seventh, 18 April–13 May; fifty-eighth, 25 July–12 Montiel August; fifty-ninth, 7 November–7 December all in Geneva • Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination and Inter- • Chairperson: Jens Modvig (Denmark) Agency Affairs: Thomas Gass • Membership: 10 • Reports: A/71/44, A/72/44 Department for General Assembly and Conference Management Conference on Disarmament • Under-Secretary-General: Catherine Pollard • Meetings: Geneva, 25 January–1 April, 16 May–1 July, 1 August–16 • Assistant Secretary-General: Movses Abelian September • President: Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, the Republic Department of Public Information of Korea • Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public • Membership: 65 Information: Cristina Gallach • Report: A/71/27 Department of Safety and Security Human Rights Committee • Under-Secretary-General: Peter Thomas Drennan • Sessions: 116th, 7–31 March; 117th, 20 June–15 July; 118th, 17 October–4 November, all in Geneva Department of Management • Chairperson: Fabián Omar Salvioli (Argentina) • Under-Secretary-General: Yukio Takasu • Membership: 18 OFFICEF O PROGRAMME PLANNING, BUDGET AND ACCOUNTS • Reports: A/71/40, A/72/40 • Assistant Secretary-General, Controller: Bettina Tucci Bartsiotas International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) OFFICEF O HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT • Sessions: 115th, 1–5 February; 116th, 17–27 May; 117th, 1–18 November; all in Vienna • Assistant Secretary-General: Carole Wainaina • President: Oh Joon (Republic of Korea) OFFICEF O CENTRAL SUPPORT SERVICES • Membership: 13 • Assistant Secretary-General: Stephen Cutts • Reports: E/INCB/2016/1 • Decisions: ESC 2016/201 D OFFICEF O INFORMATION COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY PRINCIPAL MEMBERS OF THE UNITED NATIONS • Assistant Secretary-General: Atefeh Riazi SECRETARIAT Office of the United Nations Ombudsman and Mediation Secretariat Services • Secretary-General: Ban Ki-moon • Assistant Secretary-General, Ombudsman: Johnston Barkat • Deputy Secretary-General: Jan Eliasson Peacebuilding Support Office Executive Office of the Secretary-General • Assistant Secretary-General: Oscar Fernandez-Taranco • Under-Secretary-General, Chef de Cabinet: Edmond Mulet United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Chef de Cabinet: Patrick Carey (ad interim) • Assistant Secretary-General, Chief Executive Officer: Sergio B. Arvizú

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Economic Commission for Africa Office of the Special Representative • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Carlos Lopes of the Secretary-General for West Africa • Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative: Mohammed Ibn Economic Commission for Europe Chambas • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Christian Friis Bach Office of the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean on the Prevention of Genocide • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Alicia Bárcena • Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Adama Dieng Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Office of the Special Representative of the • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Shamshad Akhtar Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia • Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative: Leila Zerrougui • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Rima Khalaf Office of the Special Representative of the United Nations Office at Geneva Secretary-General for Violence against Children • Under-Secretary-General, Director-General of the United Nations • Assistant Secretary-General, Special Representative: Marta Santos Office at Geneva: Michael Møller Pais United Nations Office at Vienna Office of the United Nations High Commissioner • Under-Secretary-General, Director-General of the United Nations for Human Rights Office at Vienna and Executive Director of the United Nations Office • Under-Secretary-General, High Commissioner: Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Drugs and Crime: Yury Fedotov • Deputy High Commissioner: Kate Gilmore United Nations Office at Nairobi • Assistant Secretary-General (New York Office): Ivan Šimonović (until September), Andrew Gilmour • Under-Secretary-General and Director-General of the United Nations Office at Nairobi: Sahle-Work Zewde Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees International Court of Justice Registry • Under-Secretary-General, High Commissioner: Filippo Grandi • Assistant Secretary-General, Registrar: Philippe Couvreur • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy High Commissioner: Kelly T. SECRETARIATS OF SUBSIDIARY ORGANS, SPECIAL Clements REPRESENTATIVES AND OTHER RELATED BODIES • Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant High Commissioner (Protec­ tion): Volker Türk Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) • Assistant Secretary-General, Assistant High Commissioner (Opera­ • Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director: Jean-Paul Laborde tions): George Okoth-Obbo International Civil Service Commission Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator • Under-Secretary-General, Chairperson: Kingston Papie Rhodes for the Middle East • Assistant Secretary-General, Vice-Chairperson: Aldo Mantovani • Under-Secretary-General, Special Coordinator for the Middle East International Trade Centre Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Secretary-General • Executive Director: Arancha González to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority: Nickolay Mladenov Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS • Deputy Special Coordination: Robert Piper • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Michel Sidibé Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director, Pro­ for the Greece-FYROM Talks gramme: Luiz Loures • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director, Manage­ • Under-Secretary-General, Personal Envoy: Matthew Nimetz ment and Governance: Jan Beagle Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General • Assistant Secretary-General, Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa: for Western Sahara Speciosa Wandira-Kasibwe • Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and • Under-Secretary-General, Personal Envoy: Christopher Ross the Pacific: Prasada Rao Personal Representative of the Secretary-General on • Assistant Secretary-General, Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in the the Border Controversy between Guyana and Venezuela Caribbean: John Edward Greene • Under-Secretary-General: Vacant Office of the Administration of Justice Special Advisers to the Secretary-General • Executive Director: Linda Taylor • Under-Secretary-General, Special Advisers: Iqbal Riza Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Cyprus Island Developing States • Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Espen Barth Eide • Under-Secretary-General, High Representative: Gyan Chandra Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Innovative Acharya Financing for Development Office of the Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Malaria • Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Philippe Douste-Blazy • Assistant Secretary-General, Special Envoy: Ray Chambers Special Adviser to the Secretary-General and Mediator in Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on the border dispute between Equatorial Guinea and Gabon Africa • Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Nicolas Michel • Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Maged Abdelfatah Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Abdelaziz implementation of Security Council resolution 1559(2004) Office of the Special Adviser of the Secretary-General for • Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy: Terje Roed-Larsen (until Myanmar May 2016) • Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Vijay Nambiar

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Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Food • Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Security and Nutrition Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Ayse Cihan • Special Representative: David Nabarro Sultanoğlu • Assistant Administrator and Director of Regional Bureau for Latin Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict America and the Caribbean: Jessica Faieta • Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative: Zainab Hawa United Nations Environment Programme Bangura • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Achim Steiner (until Special Representative of the Secretary-General on June), Erik Solheim Migration • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director: Ibrahim • Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative: Peter Sutherland Thiaw • Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Secretary United Nations Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Sudan Framework Convention on Climate Change: Christiana Figueres and South Sudan (until May), Patricia Espinosa Cantellano • Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy: Haile Menkerios (until March), Nicholas Haysom United Nations Global Compact • Executive Director: Lise Kingo Special Court for Sierra Leone • Under-Secretary-General, Prosecutor: Brenda Hollis United Nations Human Settlements Programme • Assistant Secretary General, Registrar: Binta Mansaray • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Joan Clos • Assistant Secretary General, Deputy Executive Director: Aisa Special Tribunal for Lebanon Kirabo Kacyira • Under-Secretary-General, Prosecutor: Norman Farrell • Assistant Secretary General, Registrar: Daryl A. Mundis United Nations Institute for Training and Research • Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director: Nikhil Seth United Nations Alliance of Civilizations • Under-Secretary-General, High Representative: Nassir Abdulaziz United Nations International School al-Nasser • Assistant Secretary-General, Special Representative: Michael Adlerstein United Nations Children’s Fund • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Anthony Lake United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction • Assistant Secretaries-General, Deputy Executive Directors, Field • Assistant Secretary-General, Special Representative: Robert Results: Omar Abdi (until June), Shanelle Hall Glasser • Assistant Secretaries-General, Deputy Executive Directors, United Nations Office for Project Services Programmes: Geeta Rao Gupta (until June), Omar Abdi • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director, • Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director: Grete Faremo Management: Fatoumata Ndiaye (until April), Hannan Sulieman United Nations Office for Partnerships United Nations Conference on Trade and Development • Executive Director: Ann de la Roche • Under-Secretary-General, Secretary-General of UNCTAD: Mukhisa United Nations Office of the Special Envoy to Haiti Kituyi • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy-Secretary-General: Joakim • Special Envoy: William J. Clinton Reiter United Nations Office on Sport for Development and Peace United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity • Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Wilfried Lemke • Assistant Secretary General, Executive Secretary: Braulio Ferreira United Nations Population Fund de Souza Dias (until November), Cristiana Paşca Palmer • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Babatunde United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification Osotimehin • Assistant Secretary General, Executive Secretary: Monique Barbut • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director (Manage­ ment): Laura Londén United Nations Development Programme • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director (Programme): • Under-Secretary-General, Administrator: Helen Clark Kate Gilmore (until July), Natalia Kanem • Under-Secretary-General, Associate Administrator: Tegegnework United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Gettu Refugees in the Near East • Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau External Relations and Advocacy: Michael O’Neill • Under-Secretary-General, Commissioner-General: Pierre • Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau of Management: Krähenbühl Jens Wandel • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Commissioner-General: • Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau for Development Sandra Mitchell Policy: Magdy Martinez-Soliman United Nations University • Assistant Administrator and Director of Regional Bureau for Africa: • Under-Secretary-General, Rector: David M. Malone Abdoulaye Mar Dieye • Assistant Administrator and Director of Regional Bureau for Arab World Food Programme States: Sima Sami Bahous (until November), Mourad Wahba • Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Ertharin Cousin • Assistant Administrator and Director of Regional Bureau for Asia • Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director: Amir and the Pacific: Haoliang Xu Mahmoud Abdulla

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