General Assembly Elects President of 78th Session of General Assembly

The General Assembly elected, during its 74th plenary meeting, Dennis Francis, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations, as President of the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. The President was elected by acclamation.

Secretary-General António Guterres
(centre right) greets Dennis Francis, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to the United Nations and President-elect of the seventy-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. At centre left is Csaba Kőrösi, President of the seventy-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly, and at left is Movses Abelian, Under-Secretary-General for General Assembly and Conference Management.