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Appointment of members of the Joint Inspection Unit

Background

At its thirty-first session, in 1976, the General Assembly approved the statute of the Joint Inspection Unit, consisting of not more than 11 members (resolution 31/192). At its resumed fifty-eighth session, in August 2004, the General Assembly appointed one member to the Joint Inspection Unit for a five-year term of office beginning on 1 January 2005 and ending on 31 December 2009 (decision 58/422) [page 59].

At its resumed fifty-ninth session, in April 2005, the General Assembly appointed a member to the Joint Inspection Unit for a term of office beginning on 28 April 2005 and expiring on 31 December 2008, as a result of the resignation of a member (decision 59/416 A) [page 119]. At the same session, in August 2005, the Assembly appointed four members to the Unit for a five-year term of office beginning on 1 January 2006 and expiring on 31 December 2010 (decision 59/416 B) [page 119].

At its sixty-first session, under the item entitled "Joint Inspection Unit" (resolution 61/238, sect. II), the General Assembly decided that, beginning on 1 January 2008, the President of the General Assembly, when drawing up a list of countries that would be requested to propose candidates, would invite Member States also to submit the names of the countries and their respective candidates simultaneously.

At its resumed sixty-first session, in July 2007, the General Assembly filled the vacancies that will arise upon the expiry on 31 December 2007 of the terms of office of Mr. Fontaine Ortiz, Mr. Tang, Mr. Vislykh, Ms. Wynes and Mr. Yussuf. China, Cuba, Egypt, the Russian Federation and the United States of America were requested to submit the names of candidates to fill those seats. The Assembly appointed Mr. Nikolay V. Chulkov, Mr. Even Francisco Fontaine Ortiz, Mr. Mohamed Mounir-Zahran, Ms. Deborah Wynes and Mr. Zhang Yishan for a five-year term ending on 31 December 2012 (decision 61/421).

At present, the Joint Inspection Unit is composed of the following 11 members:

At its sixty-second session, the General Assembly will need to fill the vacancy resulting from the resignation, effective 30 September 2007, of Inspector Juan Luis Larrabure (Peru).

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References for the sixty-first session (agenda item 106 (h))

[Source: Annotated preliminary list of items to be included in the provisional agenda of the sixty-second regular session of the General Assembly (A/62/100, Corr. 1 and Add.1)]