The United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) is one of six principal organs of the United Nations,responsible for coordinating the economic and social fields of the organization,specifically in regards to the fifteen specialized agencies,the eight functional commissions,and the five regional commissions under its jurisdiction.
The Group of Western European and Other States,also known as the Western European and Other States Group or WEOG,is one of the five United Nations regional groups. It is composed of 28 member states. Most of these are in Western Europe,but the group also includes Australia,Canada,Greece,Israel,New Zealand,and Turkey. The United States and Vatican City participate as observers.
Katalin Annamária Bogyay is a Hungarian ambassador,diplomat,journalist and the President of the United Nations Association of Hungary since April 2021. She has been a lecturer at the Corvinus University of Budapest since 2022,and teaching at the Hungarian Diplomatic Academy since 2021. In 2021 she founded the Women4Diplomacy movement. She served as the 15th Permanent Representative of Hungary to the United Nations in New York. She is the former Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and Permanent Delegate of Hungary to UNESCO (2009–2014) and the President of the 36th session of UNESCO General Conference (2011–2013).
Dalius Čekuolis is a Lithuanian career diplomat who was Lithuania's Permanent Representative to the UN from 2006 to 2012,and since 2019 is Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania. Previously,he served as the President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC),a primary organ of the United Nations (2007),Chair of the Third Biennial Meeting of States to Consider the Implementation of the United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms to Prevent,Combat and Eradicate the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All its Aspects (2008),Co-Chairman of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the General Assembly (2010-2011),as well as the Vice-minister of Foreign Affairs and an ambassador of Lithuania to several European countries.
United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) is an umbrella international organisation for cities,local and regional governments,and municipal associations.
Francesco Paolo Fulci was an Italian diplomat who served as Ambassador to the United Nations.
Munir Akram is a Pakistani diplomat currently serving for the second time as Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations. He had previously held the post from 2002 to 2008,during which time he also served two terms as President of the United Nations Security Council. On 23 July 2020 Akram was elected President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council,serving from July 2020 to July 2021.
Linah Kelebogile Mohohlo was a Botswana banker and university chancellor. She was the first female Governor of the Bank of Botswana from 1999 to 2016. She was also the first female Chancellor of the University of Botswana,serving from 2017 to 2021.
Sylvie Lucas was Luxembourg's ambassador to the United States of America from 2016 to 2019,having previously served as permanent representative to the United Nations from August 2008 to August 2016 and president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) (2009–2010) and the Security Council (2014).
The sixty-seventh session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on 18 September 2012 and had its last scheduled meeting on 11 September 2013. The president of the United Nations General Assembly was chosen from the EEG with Serbia's then foreign minister Vuk Jeremićbeating out Lithuania's Dalius Čekuolis in an election. Notably,the session led to United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19 which granted Palestine non-member observer state status.
Indonesia officially became the 60th member of the United Nations on 28 September 1950,in accordance with the United Nations Security Council Resolution 86 two days before,and the United Nations General Assembly resolution number A/RES/491 (V) on the "admission of the Republic of Indonesia to membership in the United Nations",less than one year after the independence of Indonesia's by the Netherlands at the Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference in the Hague.
The Sixty-Ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on 16 September 2014. The President of the United Nations General Assembly was chosen from the African Group with Uganda's Sam Kutesa being the unanimous African Union's Executive Council's candidate,thus bypassing the need for an election.
The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg is a member of the United Nations.
The International Association of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions,an association under Dutch law,is established in Brussels,Belgium and has been founded on 1 July 1999,in Port Louis,Mauritius.
Mahmoud Saikal is an Afghan former senior diplomat and an international development specialist. He was the Permanent Representative of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United Nations from October 2015 until February 2019.
The Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) is a functional commission of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) based in Vienna. The commission serves as the primary organ that guides the activities of the United Nations in the fields of crime prevention and criminal justice.
The president of the United Nations Economic and Social Council is the presiding officer of that body.
The Seventy-fifth session of the United Nations General Assembly was the session of the United Nations General Assembly which ran from 16 September 2020 to 15 September 2021. The President for the session was Volkan Bozkır,who stated that the session's theme was "The future we want,the United Nations we need;reaffirming our collective commitment to multilateralism".
The Permanent Mission of Armenia to the United Nations is the diplomatic mission of Armenia to the United Nations. The Mission in New York serves as one of three permanent representations of Armenia to the United Nations,with the other two being based in Vienna and Geneva.
Botswana and Japan established bilateral relations upon Botswana's independence in 1966. Botswana established its diplomatic mission in Tokyo in 1997,and Japan opened an embassy in Gaborone in 2008. The two nations have been regular trading partners,and Japan has provided aid to Botswana to fund education and infrastructure.
