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Latin American And Caribbean Group
The Group of Latin America and Caribbean Countries, or GRULAC, is one of the five United Nations Regional Groups composed of 33 Member States from Central and South America, as well as island nations in the Caribbean. Its members compose 17% of all United Nations members. The Group, as with all the regional groups, is a non-binding dialogue group where subjects concerning regional and international matters are discussed. Additionally, the Group works to help allocates seats on United Nations bodies by nominating candidates from the region. In 1985, the group was known as the Latin American Group. This was changed to Latin American and Caribbean Group sometime between 1985 and 1986. Member States The following are the Member States of the Latin American and Caribbean Group: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Representation Security Council The Latin American and Caribbean Group currently holds two seats o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations Regional Groups
The United Nations Regional Groups are the geopolitics, geopolitical regional groups of member states of the United Nations, member states of the United Nations. Originally, the UN member states were unofficially organized into five groups as an informal means of sharing the distribution of posts for United Nations General Assembly, General Assembly committees. Now this grouping has taken on a much more expansive and official role. Many UN bodies are allocated on the basis of geographical representation. Top leadership positions, including Secretary-General of the United Nations, Secretary-General and President of the United Nations General Assembly, President of the General Assembly, are rotated among the regional groups. The groups also coordinate substantive policy and form common fronts for negotiations and voting bloc, bloc voting. History League of Nations The precedent of the geographic distribution of seats was set by the United Nations' predecessor, the League of Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Didier Opertti
Didier Opertti Badán (born 23 April 1937) is a Uruguayan political figure and lawyer. Political offices in Uruguay Interior Minister Opertti served as the interior minister of Uruguay from 1995 to 1998 in the government of Julio María Sanguinetti. Foreign minister Opertti subsequently served as Minister of Foreign Relations under both Presidents Sanguinetti and subsequently Jorge Batlle from 1998 until 1 March 2005. Other offices He served as the president of the United Nations General Assembly from 1998 to 1999. As of 2006, he serves as Secretary-General Secretary is a title often used in organizations to indicate a person having a certain amount of authority, Power (social and political), power, or importance in the organization. Secretaries announce important events and communicate to the org ... of ALADI. See also * Politics of Uruguay External links Biography [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Nations Office At Vienna
The United Nations Office at Vienna (UNOV) is one of the four major office sites of the United Nations where numerous different UN agencies have a joint presence. UNOV was established on 1 January 1980, and was the third such complex to be created. The office complex is located in Vienna, the capital of Austria, and is part of the Vienna International Centre, a cluster of several major international organizations also informally called "UNO city". Constituent agencies Headquartered at the Vienna International Centre: *International Atomic Energy Agency (has a special agreement on its status) * International Money Laundering Information Network * International Narcotics Control Board * Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty *United Nations Commission on International Trade Law *United Nations Industrial Development Organization *United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs *United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Presence at the Vienna Internati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, representing nearly one-third of the country's population. Vienna is the Culture of Austria, cultural, Economy of Austria, economic, and Politics of Austria, political center of the country, the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most-populous of the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. The city lies on the eastern edge of the Vienna Woods (''Wienerwald''), the northeasternmost foothills of the Alps, that separate Vienna from the more western parts of Austria, at the transition to the Pannonian Basin. It sits on the Danube, and is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rome
Rome (Italian language, Italian and , ) is the capital city and most populated (municipality) of Italy. It is also the administrative centre of the Lazio Regions of Italy, region and of the Metropolitan City of Rome. A special named with 2,746,984 residents in , Rome is the list of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, third most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits. The Metropolitan City of Rome Capital, with a population of 4,223,885 residents, is the most populous metropolitan cities of Italy, metropolitan city in Italy. Rome metropolitan area, Its metropolitan area is the third-most populous within Italy. Rome is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber Valley. Vatican City (the smallest country in the world and headquarters of the worldwide Catholic Church under the governance of the Holy See) is an independent country inside the city boun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Francis (diplomat)
Dennis Francis (born 27 November 1956) is a diplomat from Trinidad and Tobago who has served as his country's permanent representative to the United Nations in New York since 2021.United Nations press release, "New Permanent Representative of Trinidad and Tobago Presents Credentials" 2 September 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2023. From 2023 to 2024 he was at its [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventy-eighth Session Of The United Nations General Assembly
The Seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly was a session of the United Nations General Assembly that convened from 5 September 2023 to 9 September 2024. The President of the General Assembly is from Latin American and Caribbean Group. Organisation for the session President On 1 June 2023, the Permanent Representative of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations, Dennis Francis, was elected to the position of President of the General Assembly. Vice-Presidents The General Assembly elected the following countries as the vice-presidents of the 78th session: The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council: * * * * * As well as the following nations: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * General debate Each member of the General Assembly will have a representative speaking about issues concerning their country and the hopes for the coming year as to what the UNGA will do. This is an opportunity for the member states to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
María Fernanda Espinosa
María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés (born September 7, 1964) is an Ecuadorian Linguistics, linguist, poet, politician, and diplomat. Currently, is Executive Director of GWL Voices, an NGO dedicated to achieve a gender-equal multilateral system. She served as an advisor on biodiversity and indigenous peoples (1999-2005) and was the regional director for South America (2005-2007) at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). Espinosa Garcés was Ecuador's Minister of Foreign Affairs twice, from 2007 to 2008 and then from 2017 to 2018. She also served as ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations in New York (2008-2009) and Geneva (2014-2017), and as Ecuador's Minister of National Defense (2012-2014). In June 2018, she was elected President of the United Nations General Assembly for the Seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly, 73rd session by a two-thirds vote of the member states. Espinosa Garcés became the fourth woman in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seventy-third Session Of The United Nations General Assembly
The Seventy-third session of the United Nations General Assembly was opened on 18 September 2018. The President of the United Nations General Assembly, President of the United Nations General Assembly was from the GRULAC group. Organisation for the session President Ecuadorian Foreign Minister, María Fernanda Espinosa, María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés was elected as President of the General Assembly on 5 June 2018. Vice-Presidents There will be twenty-one vice-presidents for the 73rd Session. They will be: The five Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, permanent members of the Security Council: * * * * United Kingdom, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland * United States, United States of America As well as the following nations: * * * * * * Gambia, Gambia (Republic of The) * * * * * * * * * * Committees The following were elected as Chairs and officers of the General Assembly committees for the 73rd Session: Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John William Ashe
John William Ashe (20 August 1954 – 22 June 2016) was an Antiguan diplomat and politician. He was the President of the United Nations General Assembly at its 68th session, which ran September 2013 to September 2014. He was also President of the UNICEF Executive Board in 2012. He served as Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York of Antigua and Barbuda between 1995 and 2004. Early life and education Ashe was born in St. John's, Antigua. His parents did not complete high school. His paternal grandfather gave his signature as an "X" and his mother, in turn, was a descendant of slave plantation owners in Barbados. Consequently, Ashe was the first in his family to attend university. He was a graduate of St. Mary's University in Nova Scotia and the Technical University of Nova Scotia, and in 1989 graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a PhD in Bioengineering. Political career From 1989 to 1995, he worked for his country’s Permanent Mission to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sixty-eighth Session Of The United Nations General Assembly
The sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on 17 September 2013. The president of the United Nations General Assembly was chosen from the GRULAC with Antigua and Barbuda's John William Ashe being the consensus candidate, thus bypassing the need for an election. Organisation for the session In December 2011, Antigua and Barbuda's UN Ambassador John William Ashe was chosen as the consensus candidate by all 33 GRULAC member states to be the president of the United Nations General Assembly, thus not necessitating an election. In opening remarks to the General Assembly, Ashe said: "The upcoming year will be pivotal for this Assembly as we seek to identify the parameters of the post-2015 development agenda. The magnitude of the task before us will require decisive action and the highest levels of collaboration and we must prove ourselves and our efforts to be equal to the enormity of the task. We simply cannot reach our development goals, or advance human ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann
Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann (February 5, 1933 – June 8, 2017) was an American-born Nicaraguan diplomat, politician and Catholic priest of the Maryknoll Missionary Society. As the President of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2008 to September 2009, he presided over the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly. He was also nominated as Libyan Representative to the UN in March 2011."Nicaraguan U.S. critic made U.N. assembly president" Reuters, June 4, 2008. He died on 8 June 2017, having suffered a stroke several months earlier. Early life D'Escoto was born in .[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
