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Structure of the United Nations Appendix III Structure of the United Nations GENERAL ASSEMBLY The General Assembly is composed of all Member States of the • Rapporteur: Justin Kisoka (Tanzania) United Nations. Sixty-eighth session4 SESSIONS First Committee • Resumed sixty-seventh session: 22 January–16 September • Chairperson: Ibrahim O. A. Dabbashi (Libya) • Sixty-eighth session: 17 September–27 December (suspended) • Vice-Chairpersons: Miloš Nikolić (Montenegro), Fernando Luque (Ecuador), Peter Winkler (Germany) OFFICERS • Rapporteur: Khodadad Seifi Pargou (Iran) Resumed sixty-seventh session Fourth Committee • President: Vuk Jeremić (Serbia) • Vice-Presidents: Afghanistan, Algeria, Angola, Bangladesh, • Chairperson: Carlos Enrique García González (El Salvador) China, Congo, France, Ghana, Honduras, Israel, Kenya, Lebanon, • Vice-Chairpersons: Mafiroane Motanyane (Lesotho), Christina Nepal, Netherlands, Palau, Peru, Russian Federation, Sierra Rafti (Cyprus), Francesco Santillo (Italy) Leone, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States • Rapporteur: Michal Komada (Slovakia) Sixty-eighth session Second Committee • President: John William Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda)1 • Chairperson: Abdou Salam Diallo (Senegal) • Vice-Presidents2: Botswana, Cameroon, Chile, China, France, Gua­ • Vice-Chairpersons: Waruna Sri Dhanapala (Sri Lanka), Oana Maria temala, Guinea, Malaysia, Monaco, Romania, Russian Federation, Rebedea (Romania), Farrah Brown (Jamaica) Solomon Islands, South Sudan, Spain, Thailand, Timor­Leste, • Rapporteur: Juliet Hay (New Zealand) Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, United Kingdom, United States Third Committee The Assembly has four types of committees: (1) Main Commit­ • Chairperson: Stephan Tafrov (Bulgaria) tees; (2) procedural committees; (3) standing committees; (4) sub­ • Vice-Chairpersons: Mario von Haff (Angola), Thorvardur Atli sidiary and ad hoc bodies. In addition, it convenes conferences to Thórsson (Iceland), Maya Dagher (Lebanon) deal with specific subjects. • Rapporteur: Adriana Murillo Ruin (Costa Rica) MAIN COMMITTEES Fifth Committee By resolution 47/233, the General Assembly rationalized its Com­ • Chairperson: Janne Taalas (Finland) mittee structure as follows: • Vice-Chairpersons: Carlos Alejandro Funes (El Salvador), Joanna • Disarmament and International Security Committee (First Fiodorow (Republic of Poland), Kodjovi Dosseh (Togo) Committee); • Rapporteur: Ken Siah (Singapore) • Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Sixth Committee Committee); • Chairperson: Palitha T. B. Kohona (Sri Lanka) • Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee); • Vice-Chairpersons: Ibrahim Salem (Egypt), Nikolas Johannes • Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (Third Stuerchler Gonzenbach (Switzerland), Leandro Vieira Silva Committee); (Brazil) • Administrative and Budgetary Committee (Fifth Committee); • Rapporteur: Tofig Musayev (Azerbaijan) • Legal Committee (Sixth Committee). The General Assembly may constitute other committees, on PROCEDURAL COMMITTEES which all Members of the United Nations have the right to be General Committee represented. The General Committee consists of the President of the General OFFICERS OF THE MAIN COMMITTEES Assembly, as Chairperson, the 21 Vice­Presidents and the Chair­ Resumed sixty-seventh session persons of the six Main Committees. Fourth Committee3 Credentials Committee • Chairperson: Nelson Messone (Gabon) The Credentials Committee consists of nine members appointed • Vice-Chairpersons: Maratee Nalita Andamo (Thailand), Mrs. by the General Assembly on the proposal of the President. Ayesha Borland (Belize), Mr. Dimitrios Felopoulos (Greece) • Rapporteur: Zulfi Ismaili (The former Yugoslav Republic of Resumed Sixty-seventh session Macedonia) Angola, China, Peru, Russian federation, Seychelles, Sweden, Thai­ land, Trinidad and Tobago, United States Fifth Committee3 • Chairperson: Miguel Berger (Germany) Sixty-eighth session5 • Vice-Chairpersons: João Augusto Costa Vargas (Brazil), Anna Belgium, China, Colombia, Gabon, Guyana, Russian Federation, Reich (Hungary), Bilal Taher Muhammad Wilson (Saudi Arabia) Singapore, Tanzania, United States 1 Elected on 14 June 2013 (General Assembly dec. 67/420). 2 Elected on 14 June 2013 (General Assembly dec. 67/421 A & B). 4 Elected on 1 October 2013 (General Assembly dec. 68/402). 3 One of the Main Committees that met during the resumed session. 5 Appointed on 17 September 2013 (General Assembly dec. 68/401). 1544 Structure of the United Nations 1545 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 three­year terms. Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary • Meeting: 455th, New York, 11 July Questions (ACABQ) • Chairperson: Palitha T. B. Kohona (Sri Lanka) 6 • Membership: 43 • To serve until 31 December 2013: Vinay Kumar (India) , Peter • Report: A/68/29 Maddens (Belgium), Carlos Ruiz Massieu (Mexico), Richard Moon (United Kingdom), Toshihiro Aiki (Japan)7, Zhang Wanhai (China) Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters • To serve until 31 December 2014: Bruno Brant (Brazil), Pavel • Sessions: Fifty­ninth, New York, 27 February–1 March; sixtieth, Chernikov (Russian Federation), Dietrich Lingenthal (Germany), Geneva, 26–28 June Jean Christian Obame (Gabon), David Traystman (United States) • Chairperson: Hewa M. G. S. Palihakkara (Sri Lanka) • To serve until 31 December 2015: Mohanad Al­Musawi (Iraq), • Membership: 14 (plus 1 ex­officio member), fifty­seventh Jasminka Dinić (Croatia), Babou Sene (Senegal), Tesfa Alem session; 15 (plus 1 ex­officio member), fifty­eight session Seyoum (Eritrea). • Report: A/68/206 On 13 November 2013 (dec. 68/407 A), the General Assembly ap­ pointed the following persons for a three­year term beginning on Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme of 1 January 2014 to fill vacancies occurring on 31 December 2013: Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Toshihiro Aiki (Japan), Richard Moon (United Kingdom), Carlos Appreciation of International Law Ruiz Massieu (Mexico), Devesh Uttam (India), Catherine Vendat • Session: Forty­eight, New York, 8 and 10 October (France), Zhang Wanhai (China). • Chairperson: Ken Kanda (Ghana) • Membership: 25 Committee on Contributions • Report: A/68/521 • To serve until 31 December 2013: Joseph Acakpo­Satchivi (Benin), Board of Auditors Gordon Eckersley (Australia), Bernardo Greiver del Hoyo (Uruguay), Juan Ndong Mbomio Mangue (Equatorial Guinea), • Session: Sixty ­seventh (regular), New York, 23 and 24 July; Pedro Luis Pedroso Cuesta (Cuba), Thomas Schlesinger (Austria) • Chairperson: Amyas Morse (United Kingdom ) • To serve until 31 December 2014: Thomas David Smith (United • Membership: 3 Kingdom)8, Nikolay Lozinskiy (Russian Federation), Gönke • Decision: GA 68/410 Roscher (Germany), Henrique da Silveira Sardinha Pinto (Brazil), Committee on Conferences Sun Xudong (China), Yoo Daejong (Republic of Korea) • Sessions: New York, 29 April (organizational), 3 to 9 September • To serve until 31 December 2015: Andrzej T. Abraszewski (Poland); (substantive) Syed Yawar Ali (Pakistan), Ihor V. Humennyi (Ukraine), Susan M. • Chairperson: Chamithri Jayanika Rambukwella (Sri Lanka) McLurg (United States), Josiel Motumisi Tawana (South Africa), • Membership: 19 Kazuo Watanabe (Japan) • Report: A/68/32 On 13 November 2013 (dec. 68/408 A), the General Assembly ap­ • Decisions: GA 67/415 B & C, 68/414 A pointed the following persons for a three­year term beginning on 1 January 2014 to fill the vacancies occurring on 31 December Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights 2013: Jean Pierre Diawara (Guinea), Gordon Eckersley (Australia), of the Palestinian People Bernardo Greiver del Hoyo (Uruguay), Ali A. Ali Kurer (Libya), Pedro • Meetings: Throughout the year Luis Pedroso Cuesta (Cuba), Ugo Sessi (Italy). • Chairperson: Abdou Salam Diallo (Senegal) • Membership: 26 SUBSIDIARY AND AD HOC BODIES • Report: A/68/35 The following is a list of subsidiary and ad hoc bodies functioning • Decision: 67/422 in 2013, including the number of members, dates of meetings/ Committee on Information sessions in 2013, document numbers of reports (which generally provide specific information on membership) and relevant deci­ • Session: Thirty­fifth, New York, 22 April­2 May sion numbers pertaining to elections. • Chairperson: Lyutha Al­Mughairy (Oman) • Membership: 114 Ad Hoc Committee on the Administration of Justice • Report: A/68/21 at the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space • Session: Did not meet in 2013 • Session: Fifty­sixth, Vienna, 12–21 June • Membership: Open to all Member States of the United Nations or • Chairperson: Yasushi Horikawa (Japan) member States of the specialized agencies or of IAEA • Membership: 74 Ad Hoc Committee on Criminal Accountability • Report: A/68/20 of United Nations Officials and Experts on Mission Committee for Programme and Coordination (CPC) • Session: Did not meet in 2013 • Sessions: Fifty­third, New York, 25 April (organizational); 3–28 • Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations June (substantive) or members of the specialized agencies or of IAEA • Chairperson: Rashid Bayat Mokhtari (Iran) Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly • Membership: 31 resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996 • Report: A/68/16 • Session: Did not meet in 2013 • Decision: GA 67/404 B, 68/404 A Committee
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