Economic and Social Council Elects Members to Seven Subsidiary Bodies

The Economic and Social Council held elections today to fill vacancies in several of its subsidiary bodies.

The Council elected Peru by acclamation to the Commission on Population and Development for a term effective immediately and expiring at the close of the Commission’s fifty-ninth session in 2026.  It also elected Turkmenistan for a term beginning at the first meeting of the Commission’s fifty-eighth session in 2024 and expiring at the close of the Commission’s sixty-first session in 2028.

The Council then elected Guatemala and Qatar by acclamation to the Commission for Social Development for a four-year term beginning at the first meeting of the Commission’s sixty-third session in 2024 and expiring at the close of the Commission’s sixty-sixth session in 2028.

In further action, it elected Uganda by acclamation to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice for a three-year term beginning on 1 January 2024.

Bulgaria was nominated by acclamation for election by the General Assembly to the Committee for Programme and Coordination for a three-year term beginning on 1 January 2024.

The Council then elected Algeria by acclamation to complete the term of office of Mauritania on the Executive Board of the World Food Programme (WFP), beginning on 1 January 2024 and expiring on 31 December 2025.

It elected Guatemala by acclamation to the Committee for the United Nations Population Award for a term effective immediately and expiring on 31 December 2024.

France was elected by acclamation to complete the term of office of Germany on the Programme Coordinating Board of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), beginning on 1 January 2024 and expiring on 31 December 2025.

The Council will hold the regular round of elections to its subsidiary and related bodies at its management meeting on 9 April 2024.