IN SECOND REPORT, CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS ACCEPTANCE OF CREDENTIALS OF 45 MEMBER STATES

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GA/9033

IN SECOND REPORT, CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS ACCEPTANCE OF CREDENTIALS OF 45 MEMBER STATES

The Credentials Committee this afternoon recommended that the General Assembly accept the formal credentials of representatives of 45 of its 185 Member States for the Assembly's current session. It also recommended acceptance of the provisional credentials of representatives of 20 other States.

The Committee took that action by adopting, without a vote, a draft resolution recommending that the Assembly accept the credentials that had been submitted to the Secretary-General by those States. It also recommended that the Assembly approve the second report of the Credentials Committee.

Formal credentials were accepted from the following Member States: Albania, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Belize, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Costa Rica, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Estonia, Georgia, Grenada, Haiti, India, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Latvia, Lebanon, Libya, Madagascar, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Mozambique, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Paraguay, Philippines, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Zambia.

Provisional credentials were received from the following Member States: Belarus, Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Guatemala, Jordan, Kyrgyzstan, Niger, Palau, Peru, Poland, Sao Tome and Principe, United Republic of Tanzania, United States and Vanuatu.

The list of Member States, which was contained in a memorandum by the Secretary-General, was introduced by the United Nations Legal Counsel, Hans Corell.

Mr. Corell said the Secretary-General's memorandum related to formal credentials received from Member States participating in the work of the fiftieth session of the Assembly, other than those of the 118 Member States

which were accepted by the Committee at its first meeting on 12 October. The Secretary-General had also received communications which were considered adequate provisional credentials pending submission of formal credentials relating to the participation of delegations in the Assembly's current session.

The nine members of the Credentials Committee are: China, Luxembourg, Mali, Marshall Islands, Russian Federation, South Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, United States and Venezuela.

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