Election of the President and the Vice-President
The Trusteeship Council suspended its operations on 1 November 1994, a month after the independence of Palau, the last remaining United Nations trust territory. By a resolution adopted on 25 May 1994, the Council amended its rules of procedure to drop the obligation to meet annually and agreed to meet as occasion required -- by its decision or the decision of its President, or at the request of a majority of its members or the General Assembly or the Security Council.
Machine-readable formats: Plain text · JSON
Transcripts available through this tool are created by using automatic speech recognition and are not official records nor official documents of the United Nations. Official records and official documents are available on the Official Document System of the United Nations. Learn more
Okay everyone, I declare open the 75th session and the 1720th meeting of the Trusteeship Council. In accordance with past practice, the Council is convened today for a brief organisational meeting to elect its President and Vice President. In keeping with Rule 8 of the Rules of Procedure of the Council, I invite you to turn to the first item on our provisional agenda this afternoon, namely the adoption of the agenda contained in document T/2000. Are there any comments on the agenda? If there are no comments, may I take it that the Council wishes to adopt the agenda for its 75th session contained in document T/2000? I hear no objection. It is so decided. I now invite the Council to take up item two on the agenda, namely election of the President and the Vice-President. In that regard, and in accordance with the tradition of the Council, I understand that His Excellency Mr. J. Dhamadikari of France is a candidate for the post of President. and that myself, His Excellency, Mr. James Kariuki of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a candidate for the post of Vice President of the Council. Since there are no other nominations, may I take it that it is the wish of the Council to dispense with the secret ballot and elect by acclamation Mr. J Darmandicari of France as President and James Kariuki of the UK as Vice President of the Council. I hear no objection. It is so decided. I therefore declare as President His Excellency Mr. J. Damardikari of France and His Excellency Mr. James Kariuki of the United Kingdom as Vice President of the Trusteeship Council and warmly congratulate us on our election. Does any member of the Council wish to take the floor at this time? I see no further requests or see no requests for the floor. We will now turn to the next item on our agenda for this meeting, namely other matters. I note the letter was received yesterday afternoon from the permanent representative of the Republic of the Marshall Islands. I propose that the presidency consult with the delegation of the Marshall Islands on this request. Does any member of the council wish to take the floor under this item? If there are no questions from the floor, I propose to adjourn the meeting. The next meeting of the council will take place on a date to be determined at least 30 days in advance. The meeting is adjourned.
