The United Nations General Assembly is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN),serving as its main deliberative,policymaking,and representative organ. Currently in its 78th session,its powers,composition,functions,and procedures are set out in Chapter IV of the United Nations Charter. The UNGA is responsible for the UN budget,appointing the non-permanent members to the Security Council,appointing the UN secretary-general,receiving reports from other parts of the UN system,and making recommendations through resolutions. It also establishes numerous subsidiary organs to advance or assist in its broad mandate. The UNGA is the only UN organ where all member states have equal representation.
The United Nations Trusteeship Council is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations,established to help ensure that trust territories were administered in the best interests of their inhabitants and of international peace and security. The trust territories—most of them former mandates of the League of Nations or territories taken from nations defeated at the end of World War II—have all now attained self-government or independence,either as separate nations or by joining neighbouring independent countries. The last was Palau,formerly part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands,which became a member state of the United Nations in December 1994.
Samuel Rudolph Insanally was a Guyanese diplomat. He was Guyana's Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1987 onwards and was Minister of Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guyana from 2001 to 2008.
Han Seung-soo is a South Korean politician and diplomat. He served as Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea from 29 February 2008 to 28 September 2009. He was the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's Special Envoy on Climate Change (2007–08) and for Disaster Risk Reduction and Water (2013–18),Special Advisor to the UN/World Bank High-Level Panel on Water (2016–18),Member of the UN Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Water and Sanitation Agency,Member of the UN Secretary-General's High-Level Panel for Global Sustainability,Founding Chair of Global Green Growth Institute,Temasek International Panel Member (2004–18) and Independent Non-Executive Director of Standard Chartered plc (2010-2019).
Peter Tomka is a Slovak judge of the International Court of Justice. Prior to his election to the ICJ in 2003,Tomka was a Slovak diplomat.
Gerhard Pfanzelter is an Austrian diplomat. He served as the Permanent Representative of Austria to the United Nations between 7 September 1999 and November 2008. In 2000 he served as Vice-President of the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations,and in 2002 he became Vice-President of the 57th United Nations General Assembly. During the first half of 2006 he chaired the European Union in New York during Austria's Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Angie Elizabeth Brooks was a Liberian diplomat and jurist. She was the only African female President of the United Nations General Assembly. She was also the second woman from any nation to head the U.N. body.
Abdoulaye Bathily is a Senegalese politician and diplomat. Bathily,the long-time Secretary-General of the Democratic League/Movement for the Labour Party (LD/MPT),served in the government of Senegal as Minister of the Environment from 1993 to 1998 and as Minister of Energy from 2000 to 2001. Later,he worked as a diplomat for the United Nations,and since 2014 he has been Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Central Africa.
Abdul Zahir Tanin is an Afghan diplomat who has served as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Kosovo,making him Head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK),since October 2015.
The Lebanese Republic is one of the 51 founding members of the United Nations when it signed the United Nations Conference on International Organization in 1945.
Peter Mohan Maithree Peiris,PC is a Sri Lankan lawyer and diplomate. He served as the Attorney General of Sri Lanka from 2008 to 2011 and was the de facto Chief Justice of Sri Lanka from 2013 to 2015 when President Maithripala Sirisena declared his appointment void ab initio in 2015. He has been serving as the Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka to the United Nations since January 2021 and was elected Vice President of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly in June 2023.
Peter Thomson is a Fijian diplomat and the United Nations Secretary-General's Special Envoy for the Ocean,and President of the United Nations General Assembly from September 2016 until September 2017. He served as Fiji's Permanent Representative to the United Nations February 2010 to August 2017,with concurrent duties as Fiji's Ambassador to Cuba.
Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser is a Qatari diplomat and the former permanent representative of Qatar to the United Nations,appointed on 11 September 1998. Prior to this office at the United Nations,Al-Nasser had served as the ambassador to Jordan from 1993. He worked for his country's foreign affairs department beginning in November 1972. He was the President of the Sixty-sixth session of the United Nations General Assembly from 14 September 2011 to 18 September 2012.
Prasad Kariyawasam is a Sri Lankan diplomat and the former Secretary to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,the top diplomat in Sri Lanka. He was the International Affairs Adviser to Hon.Karu Jayasooriya,Speaker of the Parliament of Sri Lanka.He was the former Sri Lankan Ambassador to the United States. with concurrent accreditation as High Commissioner for Sri Lanka to Trinidad &Tobago and Ambassador (designate) to Mexico. He was also the Permanent Observer of Sri Lanka to the Washington-based Organization of American States (OAS).He has also served as Sri Lankan Ambassador to India,Afghanistan and Bhutan.
Durga Prasad Bhattarai is a Nepali career diplomat who is currently the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Nepal to the United Nations in New York City. He serves concurrently as the Ambassador of Nepal to Bolivia,Ecuador,Peru and Venezuela.
The People's Socialist Republic of Albania joined the United Nations on 14 December 1955,and has participated in several UN peacekeeping operations. The current Representative of Albania in the UN is Mr. Ferit Hoxha. Albania is a non-permanent member of the 15-country UN Security Council for the two-year term (2022–2023).
Tijjani Muhammad-Bande is a Nigerian diplomat,academic and political scientist who was the president of the United Nations General Assembly 74th session from 17 September 2019 to 15 September 2020. He previously served as vice president of the 71st session from September 2016 to September 2017. He has served as Nigeria's Permanent Representative to the United Nations since 2017.
The Sixty-third session of the United Nations General Assembly was the session of the United Nations General Assembly that ran from 16 September 2008 to 14 September 2009.
Minute Alapati Taupo OBE was a Tuvaluan politician,diplomat,economist and accountant. Taupo was elected to the Parliament of Tuvalu in the 2019 Tuvaluan general election to represent the Nanumanga electorate. He was appointed Deputy Prime Minister &Minister for Fisheries and Trade in the Natano Ministry.
Csaba Kőrösi is a Hungarian diplomat who served as President of the 77th United Nations General Assembly. He was previously Director of Environmental Sustainability in the Office of the President of Hungary.
