President of the United Nations General Assembly
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Template:Use Oxford spelling Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Distinguish". Template:Short description Template:Infobox Political post The president of the United Nations General Assembly is a position voted by representatives in the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on a yearly basis. The president is the chair and presiding officer of the General Assembly.
Election
The session of the assembly is scheduled for every year starting in September—any special, or emergency special, assemblies over the next year will be headed by the president of the UNGA.
The presidency rotates annually between the five geographic groups: African, Asia-Pacific, 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, including the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Japan.
A few countries had a national elected as president of UNGA twice: Argentina, Chile, Ecuador, Hungary and Nigeria; all the other member states had a national holding this office once (not counting additional special and emergency special sessions of UNGA and also not considering that the then separate West Germany and East Germany held the presidency once each during the Cold War). In addition to the president, a slate of 21 vice-presidents are elected for each General Assembly session. The vice-presidents have the same powers and duties as the president, and the president may designate one of them to cover his absence from any meeting or part thereof.[2][3]
List of presidents
| Year elected | Image | Name of president[4] (Birth–Death) |
UN member state | Region | Sessions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-39998-0427, Paul-Henri Spaak.jpg | Paul-Henri Spaak (1889–1972)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | WES | First |
| 1947 | File:Osvaldo Euclides de Sousa Aranha, Ministro das Relações Exteriores..tif | Oswaldo Aranha (1894–1960)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Brazil | LAS | First special Second |
| Template:Sort | File:José Arce.jpg | José Arce (1881–1968)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | LAS | Second special |
| Template:Sort | File:Herbert V. Evatt.jpg | Herbert Vere Evatt (1894–1965)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | COS | Third |
| 1949 | File:Carlos P. Romulo (1949 UN photo).jpg | Carlos P. Romulo (1898–1985)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Philippines | EAS | Fourth, First Asian president |
| 1950 | File:Nas entezam.jpg | Nasrollah Entezam (1900–1980)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Iran | EAS | Fifth |
| 1951 | File:Luis Padilla Nervo in Paris (1951 UN photo) (cropped).jpg | Luis Padilla Nervo (1894–1985)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Mexico | LAS | Sixth |
| 1952 | File:Lester B. Pearson (1963 ABC press photo).jpg | Lester B. Pearson (1897–1972)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Canada | COS | Seventh |
| 1953 | File:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit 1965b.jpg | Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900–1990)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | COS | Eighth, First woman president |
| 1954 | File:Eelco van Kleffens 1945.jpg | Eelco van Kleffens (1894–1983)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | WES | Ninth |
| 1955 | File:José Maza Fernández (1955 UN photo).jpg | José Maza Fernández (1889–1964)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | LAS | Tenth |
| Template:Sort | File:Rudecindo Ortega Mason (cropped).png | Rudecindo Ortega Mason (1896–1962)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | LAS | First emergency special Second emergency special |
| Template:Sort | File:นราธิปพงศ์ประพันธ์.jpg | Wan Waithayakon (1891–1976)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | EAS | Eleventh |
| 1957 | File:Sir Leslie Munro (1957 UN photo).jpg | Leslie Munro (1901–1974)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | COS | Twelfth Third emergency special |
| 1958 | File:Dr Charles Malik Emergency Session (1958 UN photo).jpg | Charles Malik (1906–1987)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Lebanon | MES | Thirteenth |
| 1959 | File:Víctor Andrés Belaúnde.jpg | Víctor Andrés Belaúnde (1893–1966)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | LAS | Fourteenth Fourth emergency special |
| 1960 | File:Frederick H. Boland (cropped).png | Frederick Boland (1904–1985)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | WES | Fifteenth Third special |
| 1961 | File:Mongi Slim portrait (1957 UN photo).jpg | Mongi Slim (1908–1969)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Tunisia | MES | Sixteenth, First African president |
| 1962 | File:Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (1961).jpg | Muhammad Zafarullah Khan (1893–1985)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | COS | Seventeenth Fourth special |
| 1963 | File:Blank.png | Carlos Sosa Rodríguez (1912–1997)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Venezuela | LAS | Eighteenth |
| 1964 | File:Alex Quaison Sackey (portrait).jpg | Alex Quaison-Sackey (1924–1992)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Ghana | COS | Nineteenth |
| 1965 | File:Amintore Fanfani 1965.jpg | Amintore Fanfani (1908–1999)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | WES | Twentieth |
| 1966 | Abdul Rahman Pazhwak (1919–1995)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Kingdom of Afghanistan | Asia | Twenty-first Fifth special Fifth emergency special | |
| 1967 | File:Corneliu Manescu (1967 UN photo).jpg | Corneliu Mănescu (1916–2000)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Romania | EEG | Twenty-second |
| 1968 | File:Blank.png | Emilio Arenales Catalán (1922–1969)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | GRULAC | Twenty-third |
| 1969 | File:Françoise Foliot - Togo - 035 - Angie Brooks-Randolph.jpg | Angie Brooks (1928–2007)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | Africa | Twenty-fourth |
| 1970 | File:Edvard Hambro (1971 UN photo).jpg | Edvard Hambro (1911–1977)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | WEOG | Twenty-fifth |
| 1971 | File:Adam Malik 1970.jpg | Adam Malik (1917–1984)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | Asia | Twenty-sixth |
| 1972 | File:Stanislaw Trepczynski (1972 UN photo).jpg | Stanisław Trepczyński (1924–2002)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | EEG | Twenty-seventh |
| 1973 | File:Leopoldo Benites (cropped).jpg | Leopoldo Benites (1905–1996)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | GRULAC | Twenty-eighth Sixth special |
| 1974 | File:Abdelaziz Bouteflika 1975 (cropped 3x4).jpg | Abdelaziz Bouteflika (1937–2021)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | Africa | Twenty-ninth Seventh special |
| 1975 | File:Gaston Thorn (cropped).jpg | Gaston Thorn (1928–2007)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | WEOG | Thirtieth |
| 1976 | File:Blank.png | Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe (1913–1980)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Sri Lanka | Asia | Thirty-first |
| 1977 | File:Lazar Mojsov (1977 UN photo).jpg | Lazar Mojsov (1920–2011)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Yugoslavia | EEG | Thirty-second Eighth special Ninth special Tenth special |
| 1978 | File:Indalecio Liévano Aguirre.jpg | Indalecio Liévano (1917–1982)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | GRULAC | Thirty-third |
| 1979 | File:Salim.JPG | Salim Ahmed Salim (born 1942)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data TAN | Africa | Thirty-fourth Sixth emergency special Seventh emergency special Eleventh special |
| 1980 | File:Rudiger Freiherr von Wechmar (1974 UN photo).jpg | Rüdiger von Wechmar (1923–2007)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data West Germany | WEOG | Thirty-fifth Eighth emergency special |
| 1981 | File:Blank.png | Ismat T. Kittani (1929–2001)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Iraq | Asia | Thirty-sixth Seventh emergency special—Continuation Ninth emergency special Twelfth special |
| 1982 | File:Hollai Imre.jpg | Imre Hollai (1925–2017)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | EEG | Thirty-seventh |
| 1983 | File:Jorge Illueca 1984 (cropped).jpg | Jorge Illueca (1918–2012)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | GRULAC | Thirty-eighth |
| 1984 | Paul J. F. Lusaka (1935–1996)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Zambia | Africa | Thirty-ninth | |
| 1985 | File:Blank.png | Jaime de Piniés (1917–2003)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | WEOG | Fortieth Thirteenth special |
| 1986 | Humayun Rashid Choudhury (1928–2001)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | Asia | Forty-first Fourteenth special | |
| 1987 | File:Peter Florin (cropped).jpg | Peter Florin (1921–2014)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data German Democratic Republic | EEG | Forty-second Fifteenth special |
| 1988 | File:Dante Caputo 1984.jpg | Dante Caputo (1943–2018)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | GRULAC | Forty-third |
| 1989 | File:Joseph Nanven Garba 2.jpg | Joseph Nanven Garba (1943–2002)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | Africa | Forty-fourth Sixteenth special Seventeenth special Eighteenth special |
| 1990 | File:Guido de Marco 2003 crop.jpg | Guido de Marco (1931–2010)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | WEOG | Forty-fifth |
| 1991 | File:Blank.png | Samir Shihabi (1925–2010)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | Asia | Forty-sixth |
| 1992 | File:Blank.png | Stoyan Ganev (1955–2013)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | EEG | Forty-seventh |
| 1993 | File:Rudy Insanally 2006.jpg | Rudy Insanally (1936–2023)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | GRULAC | Forty-eighth |
| 1994 | File:Essy.jpg | Amara Essy (1944–2025)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | Africa | Forty-ninth |
| 1995 | File:Freitas do Amaral, XV Cimeira Ibero-Americana - Salamanca, Espanha (cropped).jpg | Diogo de Freitas do Amaral (1941–2019)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | WEOG | Fiftieth |
| 1996 | File:Tan Sri Razali Ismail (cropped).jpg | Razali Ismail (born 1939)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | Asia | Fifty-first Tenth emergency special Nineteenth special |
| 1997 | File:Hennadiy Udovenko.jpg | Hennadiy Udovenko (1931–2013)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | EEG | Fifty-second Tenth emergency special—Continuation Twentieth special |
| 1998 | File:Opertti.jpg | Didier Opertti (born 1937)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | GRULAC | Fifty-third Tenth emergency special—Continuation Twenty-first special |
| 1999 | File:Theo-Ben Gurirab (cropped) 01.jpg | Theo-Ben Gurirab (1938–2018)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | Africa | Fifty-fourth Twenty-second special Twenty-third special Twenty-fourth special |
| 2000 | File:Holkeri-2.jpg | Harri Holkeri (1937–2011)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | WEOG | Fifty-fifth Tenth emergency special—Continuation Twenty-fifth special Twenty-sixth special |
| 2001 | File:Closeup Han Seung-soo.jpg | Han Seung-soo (born 1936)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Republic of Korea | Asia | Fifty-sixth Tenth emergency special—Continuation Twenty-seventh special |
| 2002 | File:Jan Kavan, IEIS conference «Russia and the EU the question of trust»-101.jpg | Jan Kavan (born 1946)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | EEG | Fifty-seventh Tenth emergency special—Continuation |
| 2003 | File:Julian Hunte.jpg | Julian Hunte (born 1940)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Saint Lucia | GRULAC | Fifty-eighth Tenth emergency special—Continuation |
| 2004 | File:Jean Ping 080202-F-1644L-081 0YWDF.jpg | Jean Ping (born 1942)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | Africa | Fifty-ninth Twenty-eighth special |
| 2005 | File:Jan Eliasson at Tällberg Forum 2009 cropped.jpg | Jan Eliasson (born 1940)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | WEOG | Sixtieth |
| 2006 | File:Haya Rashed Al Khalifa (cropped).jpg | Haya Rashed Al-Khalifa (born 1952)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | Asia | Sixty-first Tenth emergency special—Continuation |
| 2007 | File:Dr. Srgjan Kerim (cropped).jpg | Srgjan Kerim (born 1948)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data North Macedonia | EEG | Sixty-second |
| 2008 | File:Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann2.jpg | Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann (1933–2017)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Script error: No such module "flag". | GRULAC | Sixty-third |
| 2009 | File:Ali Treki.JPG | Ali Treki (1937–2015)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Libya | Africa | Sixty-fourth |
| 2010 | File:Joseph Deiss.gif | Joseph Deiss (born 1946)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Switzerland | WEOG | Sixty-fifth |
| 2011 | File:Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser.jpg | Nassir Al-Nasser[5] (born 1952)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Qatar | Asia-Pacific | Sixty-sixth |
| 2012 | File:Vuk-Jeremic-cirsd-2014.jpg | Vuk Jeremić (born 1975)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Serbia | EEG | Sixty-seventh (election) |
| 2013 | File:John William Ashe.jpg | John William Ashe (1954–2016)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Antigua and Barbuda | GRULAC | Sixty-eighth |
| 2014 | File:Sam Kutesa - 2018 (32521275868) (cropped).jpg | Sam Kutesa (born 1949)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Uganda | Africa | Sixty-ninth Twenty-ninth special |
| 2015 | File:Mogens Lykketoft-2011-09-03.jpg | Mogens Lykketoft (born 1946)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Denmark | WEOG | Seventieth Thirtieth special |
| 2016 | File:Peter Thomson at IMO Headquarters in London - 2017 (37102010524) (cropped).jpg | Peter Thomson (born 1948)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Fiji | Asia-Pacific | Seventy-first (election) |
| 2017 | File:Miroslav Lajcak 2014 (11981540724).jpg | Miroslav Lajčák (born 1963)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Slovakia | EEG | Seventy-second Tenth emergency special—Continuation |
| 2018 | File:Entrevista de Canciller María Fernanda Espinosa (36388035054) (cropped).jpg | María Fernanda Espinosa (born 1964)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Ecuador | GRULAC | Seventy-third |
| 2019 | File:Tijjani Muhammad-Bande (48791461812) (cropped).jpg | Tijjani Muhammad-Bande (born 1957)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Nigeria | Africa | Seventy-fourth |
| 2020 | File:Volkan Bozkır April 2016 (26358127551) (cropped).jpg | Volkan Bozkır (born 1950)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Turkey | WEOG | Seventy-fifth |
| 2021 | File:Abdulla Shahid April 2021.png | Abdulla Shahid (born 1962)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Maldives | Asia-Pacific | Seventy-sixth Eleventh emergency special |
| 2022 | File:Csaba Kőrösi 20230217.jpg | Csaba Kőrösi (born 1958)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Hungary | EEG | Seventy-seventh |
| 2023 | File:Dennis Francis 20240215.jpg | Dennis Francis (born 1956)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Trinidad and Tobago | GRULAC | Seventy-eighth |
| 2024 | File:Philemon Yang, Prime Minister of Cameroon in London, 21 June 2010. (4720521915) cropped.jpg | Philémon Yang (born 1947)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Cameroon | Africa | Seventy-ninth |
| 2025 | File:2024-05-27 Event, Konferenz, re-publica STP 5327 by Stepro (cropped).jpg | Annalena Baerbock (born 1980)Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". |
Template:Country data Germany | WEOG | Eightieth |
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Abbreviations
- Pre-1966
- COS: Commonwealth Seat
- EAS: Eastern European and Asian Seat
- LAS: Latin American Seat
- MES: Middle Eastern Seat
- WES: Western European Seat
- Since 1966
- Africa: African Group
- Asia-Pacific: Asian Group, since 2011 the Asia-Pacific Group[6]
- EEG: Eastern European Group
- GRULAC: Latin American and Caribbean Group
- WEOG: Western European and Others Group
See also
- President of the United Nations Security Council
- President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
- Vice-President of the United Nations General Assembly
References
External links
- UN: List of UN General Assembly presidents
- UN General Assembly President Election Reform.
- UNelections.org.
- Elections and appointments (2020-2021)
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