A/49/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-ninth session: First Committee: Mr. Luis Valencia Rodriguez (Ecuador) Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee): Mr. Borys Hudyma (Ukraine) Second Committee: Mr. Sher Afgan Khan (Pakistan) Third Committee: Mr. Kéba Birane Cissé (Senegal) Fifth Committee: Mr. Adrien Teirlinck (Belgium) Sixth Committee: Mr. George Lamptey (Ghana) I congratulate the Chairmen on their election. 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. All members of the General Assembly are eligible in this election except those already represented in the General Committee, namely, those States whose representatives have been elected to the presidency of the General Assembly or to the chairmanships of the Main Committees. 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-ninth session shall be elected according to the following pattern: (a) Five representatives from African States; (b) Five representatives from Asian States; (c) One representative from an Eastern European State; (e) Two representatives from Western European or other States; and (f) Representatives of the five permanent members of the Security Council. 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. We shall proceed accordingly. I shall now read the names of the candidates: African States: Burundi, Guinea-Bissau, Malawi, Sudan, Tunisia Asian States: Cambodia, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Fiji, India, Kazakhstan Eastern European States: Armenia Latin American and Caribbean States: Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Uruguay Western European and other States: Austria, Netherlands The following States have therefore been elected Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly: Armenia, Austria, Burundi, Cambodia, China, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Dominican Republic, Fiji, France, Guinea-Bissau, India, Kazakhstan, Malawi, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Russian Federation, Sudan, Tunisia, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America and Uruguay. I wish to take this opportunity to congratulate the States which have been elected Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly. The General Committee for the forty-ninth session of the General Assembly has now been fully constituted in accordance with rule 38 of the rules of procedure. The first meeting of the General Committee will be held tomorrow, Wednesday, 21 September 1994, at 10 a.m., in Conference Room 3.