UNtTED NATIONS A Gene,.1AS8emblyPROVISIONAL A/40/PV.2 18September 1985 ENGLISH Fortieth session GENERAL ASSEMBLY PROVISIONAL VERBATIM RECORD OFTHESECOND MEETING HeldatHeadquarters, NewYork, onTuesday, 17September 1985,at5.25p.m. Presideint: Mr.dePINIES (Spain) -Statement bythePresident -Election oftheVice-President oftheGeneral Assembly -Election oftheofficers oftheMainCommittees Thisrecordcontains theoriginal textofspeeches delivered inEnglish and interpretations ofspeeches intheotherlanguages. Thefinaltextwillbeprinted intheOfficial Records oftheGeneral Assembly. Corrections shouldbesubmitted tooriginal speeches only.Theyshouldbe sentunderthesignature ofamemberofthedelegation concerned, withinoneweek, to.theChief,Official Records Editing Section, Department ofConference Services, roomDC2-750, 2UnitedNations Plaza,andincorporated inacopyoftherecord. 85-64009/A 3095V(E)A/40/PV.2 2 :£!lemeeting wascalledtoorderat5.25p.m. STATEMENT BYTHEPRESIDENT ThePRESIDENT (interp~etation fromSpanish): Inordertoallowtimefor consultations inregardtothechairmanship oftheSpecialPolitical Committee and inordertoexpedite theworkoftheAssembly, itwouldbehelpfulifweproceeded atoncetotheeler'tion ofthe21Vice-Presidents andthenreturned totheelection oftheChairman oftheSpecialPolitical Committee. Although rule31oftherulesofprocedure statesthattheVice-Presidents shallbeelectedaftertheelection oftheChairmen ofthesevenMainCommittees referred toinrule98,IwouldasktheAssembly tomakeanexception inthis case.Giventhegeneral assumptions whichmustbemadeabouttheprobable candidacies forthechairmanship oftheSpecialPolitical Committee andthefact thattheChairmen ofsixMainCommittees havealready beenelected, thisprocedure wouldnotinfringe thespiritof~ule31,whichcallsforensuring the representative. character oftheGeneral Committee. MayItakeitthatinthelightofthosecircumstances theAssembly wishesto proceedatoncetotheelection ofthe21Vice-Presidents? Itwassodecided. ITEM6OFTHEPROVISIONALAGENDA ELECTION OFTHEVICE-PRESIDENTS OFTHEGENERAL ASSEMBLY ThePRESIDENT (interpretation fromSpanish): Pursuant torule31ofthe rulesofprocedures, weshallnowproceed totheelection oftheVice-Presidents of theGeneral Assembly, whoaretobechoseninsuchamannerastoensurethe representative character oftheGeneral Committee.A/40/PV.2 3 (ThePresident) AllMembersoftheGeneral Assembly areeligible inthiselection exceptthose already represented intheGeneral Committee -namely, thosecount!':ies whose representatives havebeenelected toth~presidency oftheGeneral Assembly orto thechairmahships oftheMainCommittees. Inaccordance withparagraphs 2and3oftheannextoresolution 33/138, the 21Vice-Presidents shallbeelected according tothefollowing pattern: (a)Sixrepresentatives fromAfricanStates; (b)Fiverepresentatives fromAsianStates; (c)Onerepresentative fromEastern European States; (d)Three rep~esentatives from Lat~nAmerican States; (e)Onerepresentative fromWestern European andotherStates; (f)Fiverepresentatives fromthepermanent membersoftheSecurity Council. Inaccordance withparagraph 16ofannex6totherulesofprocedure, the election oftheVice-Presidents oftheAssembly bysecretballotwillbedispensed withwhenthenumberofcandidates corresponds tothenumberofseatstobe filled. Inotherwords,whenever thenumberofcandidates inagivengroup corresponds tothenumberofseatstobefilledinthatgroup,thosecandidates willbedeclared elected. Weshallproceed accordingly. Ishallnowreadoutthenamesofthecandidates endorsed bytheregional groups: African States: AsianStates: Eastern European States: LatinAmerican States: Western European andotherStates:Burkina Faso,Gabon,Kenya,Lesotho, Senegal andTunisia; Cyprus, Democratic Yemen,Pakistan, the Philippines andQatar; Romania, Bahamas, Barbados andCostaRica; Malta.A/40/PV.2 4-5, (ThePreside.llt) Sincethenumberofcanc11t7ates endorsed bytheregional groupscorresponds to thenumberofseatstobefilledin~achgroup,Ideclare thosecandidates elected, inaddition tothefivepermanent membersofthesecurity Council. Thefollowing stateshavetherefore beenelected tovice-presidencies ofthe General Assembly: Bahamas, Barbados, Burkina Paso,China,CostaRica,Cyprus, Democratic Yemen,France, Gabon,Kenya,Lesotho, Malta,Pakistan, thePhilippines, Qatar,Romania, Senegal, Tunisia, theunionofSoviet:SOcialist Republics, the ; UnitedKingdom ofGreatBritain andNorthern Ireland andtheUnitedStatesof America.
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