Palestine question – Enlargement of CEIRPP membership/Ecuador – GA decision

66/420. Appointment of a member of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable

Rights of the Palestinian People

At its 100th plenary meeting, on 16 March 2012, the General Assembly, in the light of the decision of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People conveyed by its Chair to the President of the General Assembly,¹ decided to appoint ECUADOR as a member of the Committee.²

As a result, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People is composed of the following twenty-five States:³ AFGHANISTAN, BELARUS, CUBA, CYPRUS, ECUADOR, GUINEA, GUYANA, INDIA, INDONESIA, LAO PEOPLE’S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC, MADAGASCAR, MALAYSIA, MALI, MALTA, NAMIBIA, NICARAGUA, NIGERIA, PAKISTAN, SENEGAL, SIERRA LEONE, SOUTH AFRICA, TUNISIA, TURKEY, UKRAINE and VENEZUELA (BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF).

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¹ See A/66/742.

² See also decision 66/559.

³ Subsequent to decision 52/317 of 9 December 1997, Yugoslavia ceased to be a member of the Committee as from the fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly, Hungary resigned its seat on the Committee on 1 May 2004 and Romania discontinued its membership on the Committee on 31 May 2005; Nicaragua was admitted to membership as from the sixty-second session and the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela became a member as from the sixty-fifth session.

extracted from Resolutions and Decisions adopted by the

General Assembly during its sixty-sixth session, Vol. III,

25 December 2011-17 September 2012 (A/66/49 (Vol.III))