A/48/PV.34 General Assembly

This afternoon the General Assembly will continue with the election of 18 members of the Economic and Social Council to replace those members whose terms of office expires on 31 December 1993. As no candidate obtained the required two-thirds majority in the previous ballot and one seat still remains to be filled from among the Asian States, we shall now proceed to the second restricted ballot. This third round of balloting shall be restricted to those two States from among the Asian States which were not elected but obtained the largest number of votes in the previous ballot - namely, Kazakhstan and Pakistan. This is in accordance with rule 94 of the rules of procedure. Ballot papers will now be distributed. I ask representatives to write on the ballot papers the name of the State for which they want to vote. 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 Ballot papers will be declared invalid if they contain the name of a State other than Kazakhstan or Pakistan and also if they contain the name of more than one State.

The result of the voting is as follows: Group B - Asian States Number of ballot papers: 161 Number of invalid ballots: 2 Number of valid ballots: 159 Abstentions: 0 Number of Members voting: 159 Required two-thirds majority: 106 Number of votes obtained: Pakistan 116 Kazakhstan 43 Distr. GENERAL A/48/PV.34 10 November 1993 ENGLISH The following 18 States have thus been elected members of the Economic and Social Council for a three- year term beginning on 1 January 1994: Bulgaria, Chile, Costa Rica, Egypt, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Indonesia, Ireland, Japan, Pakistan, Paraguay, Portugal, Senegal, United Republic of Tanzania, Venezuela and Zimbabwe. That concludes our consideration of agenda item 15 (b).

I should like to inform members that on Monday, 25 October, in the afternoon, in addition to the agenda items already scheduled for that meeting, namely the introduction of sub-item (b) of agenda item 108 (Effective realization of the right of self-determination through autonomy) and the consideration of agenda item 22 (University for Peace) and agenda item 23 (Programmes and activities to promote peace in the world), the Assembly will take up, as the last item, agenda item 167 (Building a peaceful and better world through sport). The list of speakers for agenda item 167 is now open.