General Assembly Elects Chairs and Bureax of Main Committees - 6th Commitee, 34th Meeting

The General Assembly held consecutive meetings of its six Main Committees to elect members of their respective bureaux. It elected five Chairs by acclamation, while electing the Chair of the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) by secret ballot.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / General Assembly
• Video Length: 00:06:37
• Production Date: 31 May 2017
• Asset Language: Arabic; Chinese; English; French; Russian; Spanish
• Corporate Name: GENERAL ASSEMBLY
• Subject Topical: APPOINTMENT OF MEMBERS; APPOINTMENT OF OFFICIALS; GENERAL ASSEMBLY; LEGISLATION
• Geographic Subject: AUSTRALIA; FIJI; PERU; SINGAPORE; SLOVAK REPUBLIC; UGANDA
• MAMS Id: 1897734
• Parent Id: 1897055

Description

The Sixth Committee (Legal) elected Burhan Gafoor (Singapore) as Chair, as well as Duncan Laki Muhumuza (Uganda), Angel Horna (Peru), Carrie McDougall (Australia) and Peter Nagy (Slovakia) as Vice-Chairs, with Mr. Nagy also elected Rapporteur.

At the outset, Mr. Thomson (Fiji) expressed his deepest sympathies following the terrorist attack earlier today in Kabul, Afghanistan, which claimed many lives, also extending condolences to all family members of the victims of recent terrorist attacks around the world.