A/38/PV.1 General Assembly

4.  Election of the President of the Gener&1 Assembly 26. The TEMPORARY PRm;iDENT: I now invite members of the General AsserHoly to proceed to the election of the President of the thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly. 27. In accordance with rule 92 of the rules of procedure, the election shall be held by secret ballot and there shall be no nominati!'lns. 28. May I recall that, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 33/138, the President should be elected from a Latin Ameri~an State. In this connection I have received a communication dated 19 September 1983 from the chairman of the Group of Latin American States informing me that his Group has decided to transmit to the General Assembly the candidacies of Mr. Davidson Hepburn of the Bahamas and Mr. lorge Illueca of Panama. 29. The ballot papers are now being distributed. I request representatives to use only ballot papers and to write the name of the person for whom they wish to vote, not the name of the country. Ballot papers containing more than one name will be declared invalid. At the invitation of the Temporary President, Mr. Woolcott (Australia), Mr. Ott (German Democratic Republic) and Mr. Gbeho (Ghana) acted as tellers. A vote was taken by secret ballot. 30. The TEMPORARY PRESIDENT: I propose now to suspend the meeting while the ballots are being counted. The meeting was suspendedat 4.05 p.m. and resumed at 4.20 p.m. 31. The TEMPORARY PRESIDENT: The result ofthe voting is as follows: Number of ballot papers: Number of invalid ballots: Number of valid ballots: Abstentions: Number of Members voting: 155o 155 2 153 77 Require(.~ majority: Number of votes obtained: Mr. lorge Illueca (Panama) 83 Mr. Davidson Hepburn (Bahamas) 70 Having obtained the required majority, Mr. Jorge lllueca was elected President ofthe thirty-eighth session of the General Assembly (decision 38/302). 32. The TEMPORARY PRESIDENT: I extend to Mr. Jorge Illueca of the Republic of Panama my sincere congratulations on his election and invite him to a~sume the presidency. Mr. lllueca_(Panama) took the Chair.