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President of the United Nations General Assembly |
The President of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted for by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly on a yearly basis.
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The session of the assembly is scheduled every year starting in September - any special, or emergency special, assemblies over the next year will be headed by the president of the General Assembly.
The presidency rotates annually between five geographic groups: African, Asian, Eastern European, Latin American and Caribbean, and Western European and other States.1
Because of their powerful stature globally, some of the largest, most powerful countries have never held the presidency, such as the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Russia, Japan and China. In particular, it is traditional that a national of a permanent member of the Security Council never serves as General Assembly President.
On June 4, 2008, former Nicaraguan foreign minister Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann was elected to the presidency of the 63rd Session of the United Nations General Assembly, which began on September 16, 2008.2 D’Escoto Brockmann was the official nominee of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States (GRULAC).3
Have been proposed clear and appropriate criteria prior to the consideration of candidacies and to establish of an “elections committee,” or, alternatively, a search committee.4 Criteria include:
Availability to devote full-time attention for many months;
Other propositions includes presidential voting by citizens of all over the world to elect the President.
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