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I. Organizational, administrative and other matters

Appointment of a member of the Joint Inspection Unit

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).

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). 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).

At its sixty-first session, under the item entitled “Joint Inspection Unit”, 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 (resolution 61/238, sect. II).

At its resumed sixty-first session, in July 2007, the General Assembly appointed five members to the Unit for a five-year term beginning on 1 January 2008 and ending on 31 December 2012 (decision 61/421).

At its sixty-second session, the General Assembly decided to fill the vacancy resulting from the resignation, effective 30 September 2007, of Inspector Juan Luis Larrabure (Peru); and decided that the term of office of the person appointed to fill that vacancy would begin on 1 January 2008 and expire on 31 December 2012, in order to align the term of office with that of other inspectors. Peru was requested to propose a candidate to fill the vacancy. The Assembly appointed Mr. Enrique Román-Morey for a term of office beginning on 1 January 2008 and expiring on 31 December 2012 (decision 62/402).

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

Mr. Gérard Biraud (France),** Mr. Nikolay V. Chulkov (Russian Federation),*** Mr. Papa Louis Fall (Senegal),** Mr. Even Francisco Fontaine Ortiz (Cuba),*** Mr. Tadanori Inomata (Japan),* Mr. Mohamed Mounir-Zahran (Egypt),*** Mr. István Posta (Hungary),** Mr. Enrique Román-Morey (Peru), *** Mr. Cihan Terzi (Turkey),** Ms. Deborah Wynes (United States of America)*** and Mr. Zhang Yishan (China).***

   *  Term of office expires on 31 December 2009.
**  Term of office expires on 31 December 2010.
***  Term of office expires on 31 December 2012.

At its sixty-third session, the General Assembly will need to fill the vacancy that will arise upon the expiry of the term of office of Mr. Tadanori Inomata on 31 December 2009.

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References for the sixty-second session (agenda item 114 (h))

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Source: A/63/100