Theme : UN
MEMBERSHIP OF PRINCIPAL UNITED NATIONS ORGANS IN 2003
General Assembly
The General Assembly is made up of 191 Member States. The States and
the dates on which they became Members are listed in Press Release ORG/1360
issued
4 October 2002.
Security Council
The Security Council has 15 members. The United Nations Charter designates
five States as permanent members and the General Assembly elects 10 other
members for two-year terms. The term of office for each non-permanent
member of the Council ends on 31 December of the year indicated in parentheses
next to its name.
The five permanent members of the Security Council are China, France,
Russian Federation, United Kingdom and the United States.
The 10 non-permanent members of the Council in 2003 are Angola (2004),
Bulgaria (2003), Cameroon (2003), Chile (2004), Germany (2004), Guinea
(2003), Mexico (2003), Pakistan (2004), Spain (2004), Syria (2003).
Economic and Social Council
The Economic and Social Council has 54 members, elected for three-year
terms by the General Assembly. The term of office for each member expires
on
31 December of the year indicated in parentheses next to its name. In
2003, the Council is composed of the following:
Andorra (2003), Argentina (2003), Australia (2004), Azerbaijan (2005),
Benin (2005), Bhutan (2004), Brazil (2003), Burundi (2004), Chile (2004),
China (2004), Congo (2005), Cuba (2005), Ecuador (2005), Egypt (2003),
El Salvador (2004), Ethiopia (2003), Finland (2004), France (2005), Georgia
(2003), Germany (2005), Ghana (2004), Greece (2005), Guatemala (2004),
Hungary (2004), India (2004), Iran (2003), Ireland (2005), Italy (2003),
Jamaica (2005), Japan (2005), Kenya (2005), Libya (2004), Malaysia (2005),
Mozambique (2005), Nepal (2003), Netherlands (2003), Nicaragua (2005),
Nigeria (2003), Pakistan (2003), Peru (2003), Portugal (2005), Qatar (2004),
Republic of Korea (2003), Romania (2003), Russian Federation (2004), Saudi
Arabia (2005), Senegal (2005), South Africa (2003), Sweden (2004), Uganda
(2003), Ukraine (2004), United Kingdom (2004), United States (2003) and
Zimbabwe (2004).
Trusteeship Council
The Trusteeship Council is made up of the five permanent members of the
Security Council -– China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom
and the
United States. With the independence of Palau, the last remaining United
Nations Trust Territory, the Council formally suspended operations on
1 November 1994. The Council amended its rules of procedure to drop the
obligation to meet annually and agreed to meet as the occasion required,
by its decision or the decision of its President or at the request of
a majority of its members or the General
Assembly or the Security Council.
International Court of Justice
The International Court of Justice has 15 Judges, elected by both the
General Assembly and the Security Council for nine-year terms. The current
composition of the Court, with terms expiring on 5 February of the year
in parentheses, is as follows:
Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh (Jordan) (2009); Nabil Elaraby (Egypt) (2006);
Thomas Buergenthal (United States) (2006); Carl-August Fleischhauer (Germany)
(2003); Gilbert Guillaume (France) (2009); Géza Herczegh (Hungary)
(2003); Rosalyn Higgins (United Kingdom) (2009); Shi Jiuyong (China)(2003);
Pieter H. Kooijmans (Netherlands)(2006); Abdul G. Koroma (Sierra Leone)
(2003); Shigeru Oda (Japan) (2003); Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren (Venezuela)
(2009); Raymond Ranjeva (Madagascar) (2009); José Francisco Rezek
(Brazil) (2006); and Vladlen S. Vereshchetin (Russian Federation)(2006).
Elections were held during the fifty-seventh Assembly session to replace
the five judges whose terms expire this year on 5 February. Hisashi Owada
(Japan), Bruno Sima (Germany) and Peter Tomka (Slovakia) were elected,
with Shi Jiuyong (China) and Abdul G. Koroma (Sierra Leone) re-elected
to nine-year terms beginning
6 February.
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