A/48/PV.2 General Assembly

I should like to inform members that the following representatives have been elected chairmen of the six Main Committees of the Assembly and are accordingly members of the General Committee for the forty-eighth session: First Committee: Mr. Adolf Ritter von Wagner (Germany) Special Political and Decolonization Committee: Mr. Stanley Kalpagé (Sri Lanka) Second Committee: Mr. René Valéry Mongbé (Benin) Third Committee: Mr. Eduard Kukan (Slovakia) Fifth Committee: Mr. Rabah Hadid (Algeria) Sixth Committee: Mrs. María del Luján Flores (Uruguay) 2. I congratulate the Chairmen on their election. This record is subject to correction. Corrections should be sent under the signature of a member of the delegation concerned within one week of the date of publication to the Chief of the Verbatim Reporting Section, Room C-178, and incorporated in a copy of the record. NEW YORK ITEM 6 OF THE PROVISIONAL AGENDA ELECTION OF THE VICE-PRESIDENTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Pursuant to rule 31 of the rules of procedure, we shall now proceed to the election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly. 4. All members of the General Assembly are eligible in this election except those already represented in the General Committee, namely those countries whose representatives have been elected to the presidency of the General Assembly or to the chairmanships of the Main Committees. 5. In accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3 of the annex to resolution 33/138, the 21 Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly at its forty-eighth session shall be elected according to the following pattern: (a) Six representatives from African States; (b) Five representatives from Asian States; (c) One representative from an Eastern European State; (d) Two representatives from Latin American and Caribbean States; (e) Two representatives from Western European or other States; and (f) Representatives of the five permanent members of the Security Council. 6. In accordance with paragraph 16 of annex VI to the rules of procedure, the election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly by secret ballot will be dispensed with when the number of candidates corresponds to the number of seats to be filled. In other words, whenever the number of candidates in a given region corresponds to the number of seats to be filled in that region, those candidates will be declared elected. Distr. GENERAL A/48/PV.2 1 October 1993 ENGLISH