President of the United Nations General Assembly
The president of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis. The president is the chair and presiding officer of the General Assembly.
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| Style | His Excellency |
| Status | Presiding officer |
| Member of | General Assembly |
| Residence | New York City ( International Territory) |
| Seat | United Nations Headquarters |
| Appointer | Member states of General Assembly |
| Term length | One year |
| Constituting instrument | Charter of the United Nations |
| Inaugural holder | Paul-Henri Spaak |
| Formation | 1946 |
| Website | un.org/en/ga/ |
Election
editThe session of the assembly is scheduled for every year starting in September—any special, or emergency special, assemblies over the next year will be headed by the president of the UNGA.
The presidency rotates annually between the five geographic groups: African, Asia-Pacific, Eastern European, Latin American and Caribbean, and Western European and other States.[1]
Because of their powerful stature globally, some of the largest, most powerful countries have never held the presidency, including the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Japan.
The only modern countries that had a national elected as president of UNGA twice are Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Hungary and Nigeria; all the other member states had been represented only once by their nationals holding this office. This does not include special and emergency special sessions of UNGA. FR ["West"] Germany and ["East"] German DR held the presidency once each during the Cold War; the reunited Germany has not done so.
In addition to the president, a slate of 21 vice-presidents are elected for each General Assembly session. The vice-presidents have the same powers and duties as the president, and the president may designate one of them to cover his absence from any meeting or part thereof.[2][3]
List of presidents
editAbbreviations
edit- Pre-1966
- COS: Commonwealth Seat
- EAS: Eastern European and Asian Seat
- LAS: Latin American Seat
- MES: Middle Eastern Seat
- WES: Western European Seat
- Since 1966
- Africa: African Group
- Asia-Pacific: Asian Group, since 2011 the Asia-Pacific Group[6]
- EEG: Eastern European Group
- GRULAC: Latin American and Caribbean Group
- WEOG: Western European and Others Group
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "About the General Assembly". United Nations. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ "Who are the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly?". Dag Hammarskjöld Library. United Nations. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ "UNGA: Rules of procedure". United Nations. Retrieved 1 April 2024.
- ^ "Past Presidents". General Assembly of the United Nations. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ "Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qatar Elected President of General Assembly's Sixty-Sixth Session; Vice-Presidents, Main Committee Chairs Also Named". United Nations. 22 June 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
- ^ "Asian Group of Nations at UN Changes Its Name to Asia-Pacific Group". Radio New Zealand. 1 September 2011. Retrieved 7 March 2022.