Concluding Coordination Segment, Economic and Social Council Fills Vacancies on Remaining Subsidiary Bodies

Commission for Social Development, Forum on Indigenous Issues among Selected

The Economic and Social Council today concluded the first set of coordination and management meetings of its 2016 session, completing the election of representatives to several of its subsidiary bodies.

For the Statistical Commission, in a single round of secret balloting, the Council elected China and Japan (Asia-Pacific States) to a four-year term beginning 1 January 2017.  The other candidates were Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan.

The Council then moved on to the Commission for Social Development, where it elected, by acclamation, Haiti and Panama (Latin American and Caribbean States) to a four-year term beginning from the first meeting of its fifty-sixth session and expiring at the close of its fifty-ninth session.  Further, it postponed the election of two members from the Asia-Pacific States, two members from the Eastern European States and three from the Western European and other States.

Continuing on to the Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP), the organ elected, by acclamation, Saudi Arabia from List B for a three-year term beginning 1 January 2017.  It postponed the election of one member from List A and one member from List D.

In a single round of secret balloting, the Council next elected — to a four-year term beginning on 1 January 2017 — Mohamed Ezzeldin Abdel-Moneim (Egypt) and Sandra Liebenberg (South Africa) of the African States to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.  The other candidates were Marc France Eddy Balancy (Mauritius) and Mohamed Ould Lagdaf Ould Boya (Mauritania).

Following, in a single round of secret balloting for the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, the Council elected Aisa Mukabenova (Russian Federation) from the Eastern European States to a three-year term beginning 1 January 2017.  The other candidate was Oliver Loode (Estonia).

Concluding, the Council, in a single round of secret balloting for the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), elected Trinidad and Tobago, Brazil and El Salvador (Latin American and Caribbean States) to a three-year term beginning 1 January 2017.  The other candidate was Guatemala.

For the 5 April election results, see Press Release ECOSOC/6748.

The Economic and Social Council will meet again at a time and date to be announced.