The 45th regular session of the General Assembly, which had been suspended December 21, 1990, was resumed April 29-May 17, 1991. In 10 resolutions the Assembly voted to: provide emergency assistance to Haiti (Resolution 45/257 B), and Costa Rica and Panama (Resolution 45/262); set date and venue of the 8th session of UNCTAD (Resolution 45/261); assist Bangladesh after the cyclone (Resolution 45/263); consider the restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the economic, social and related fields (Resolution 45/264); finance peacekeeping operations (Resolution 45/258); amend the staff regulations (Resolution 45/259); and finance UNIKOM (Resolution 45/260), UNTAG (Resolution 45/ 265) and MINURSO (Resolution 45/266). Three decisions were also adopted: appointment of UN Staff Pension Committee members (Decision 45/325 B), agenda (Decision 45/402 B) and conditions of service for JIU members (Decision 45/456). The 45th General Assembly convened again on June 10, 21 and 28, August 27 and September 13 and 16 to consider financing ONUSAL (Resolution 45/267) and UNAVEM II (Resolution 45/ 269); UN Common and Pension systems (Resolution 45/268); appointment of ACABQ members (Decision 45/305); adoption of the agenda (Decision 45/402); apartheid (Decision 45/457); Cyprus (Decision 45/458); Iraq-Kuwait situation (Decisions 45/459, 45/ 460); and revitalization of the work of the General Assembly (Decision 45/461). The 45th UN General Assembly formally closed on September 16, 1991. The 46th regular session of the General Assembly convened September 17, 1991, and was suspended December 20, 1991. The Assembly elected Samir S. Shihabi (Saudi Arabia) as President and the Chairmen of the Delegations of Australia, Belize, Botswana, China, Ecuador, France, Guinea, Honduras, Italy, Malaysia, Myanmar, Oman, Qatar, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Ukraine, U.S.S.R., United Kingdom, United States and Zaire as the 21 Vice Presidents. The Chairmen of the seven Main Committees, on which each member may be represented, were: First Committee (Political and Security)-Robert Mroziewicz (Poland) Special Political Committee-Nitya Pibulsonggram (Thailand) Second Committee (Economic and Financial)—John Burke (Ireland) Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural)— Mohammad Hussain Al-Shaali (United Arab Emirates) Fourth Committee (Decolonization)-Charles S. Flemming (Saint Lucia) Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary)-Ali Sunni Muntasser (Libya) Sixth Committee (Legal)-Pedro Comissario (Mozambique) Afonso The General Committee (steering committee) is composed of the President, the 21 Vice Presidents and Chairmen of the seven Main Committees. Security Council The Security Council is composed of 5 members designated in the Charter as permanent and 10 members elected by the General Assembly for 2-year terms ending December 31 of the year given in the heading: Permanent Members: China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, United States 1991: Cote d'Ivoire, Cuba, Romania, Yemen, Zaire 1992: Austria, Belgium, Ecuador, India, Zimbabwe On October 17, 1991, the Assembly elected Cape Verde, Hungary, Japan, Morocco and Venezuela as members of the Security Council for a 2-year term of office beginning January 1, 1992. Trusteeship Council The Trusteeship Council is composed of the United States (as administrator of a territory) and the other four Permanent Members of the Security Council (China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom). The Trusteeship Council held its 58th session on May 3-14, 1991, and a resumed session on December 19, in New York. The 21st special session of the Trusteeship Council also met in New York on December 19. Economic and Social Council ECOSOC is composed of 54 members elected by the General Assembly for 3-year terms ending December 31 of the year given in the heading: 1991: Bahamas, Brazil, Cameroon, Czechoslovakia, Indonesia, Iraq, Italy, Jordan, Kenya, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Thailand, Tunisia, Ukraine, United States, Zambia 1992: Algeria, Bahrain, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Canada, China, Ecuador, Finland, Iran, Jamaica, Mexico, Pakistan, Romania, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Sweden, United Kingdom, Zaire 1993: Argentina, Austria, Botswana, Chile, France, Germany, Guinea, Japan, Malaysia, Morocco, Peru, Somalia, Spain, Syria, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Yugoslavia On November 4, 1991, the General Assembly elected Angola, Australia, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Colombia, Ethiopia, India, Italy, Kuwait, Madagascar, Philippines, Poland, Suriname, Swaziland and the United States for terms beginning January 1, 1992. ECOSOC held its organizational session for 1991 on January 30 and February 7 in New York. Its first regular session May 13-31 and a resumed session June 17-21 were held in New York; the second was convened in Geneva on July 2–26. International Court of Justice The International Court of Justice consists of 15 members elected by the General Assembly and Security Council for 9-year terms ending February 5 of the year shown in parentheses. The judges, listed in order of precedence, are: Robert Y. Jennings, United Kingdom (2000), President Manfred Lachs, Poland (1994) Taslim Olawale Elias, Nigeria (deceased Aug. 14, 1991); Bola Ajibola, Nigeria (from Dec. 5, 1991) (1994) Roberto Ago, Italy (1997) Stephen M. Schwebel, United States (1997) Mohammed Bedjaoui, Algeria (1997) Ni Zhengyu, China (1994) Jens Evensen, Norway (1994) Nikolai K. Tarassov, Russian Federation (1997) Gilbert Guillaume, France (2000) Mohamed Shahabuddeen, Guyana (1997) Andres Aguilar Mawdsley, Venezuela (2000) |