Präsident der Generalversammlung der Vereinten Nationen
Vorlage:Use Oxford spelling Vorlage:Use dmy dates Vorlage:Distinguish Vorlage:Short description Vorlage: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
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)
Vorlage:Presidents of the UN General Assembly Vorlage:Permanent Representatives to the United Nations Vorlage:United Nations
- ↑ About the General Assembly. In: United Nations. Abgerufen am 7. März 2022.
- ↑ Who are the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly? In: Dag Hammarskjöld Library. United Nations, abgerufen am 1. April 2024.
- ↑ UNGA: Rules of procedure. United Nations, abgerufen am 1. April 2024.
- ↑ Past Presidents. In: General Assembly of the United Nations. Abgerufen am 7. März 2022.
- ↑ Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser of Qatar Elected President of General Assembly's Sixty-Sixth Session; Vice-Presidents, Main Committee Chairs Also Named. In: United Nations. 22. Juni 2011, abgerufen am 7. März 2022.
- ↑ Asian Group of Nations at UN Changes Its Name to Asia-Pacific Group In: Radio New Zealand, 1 September 2011. Abgerufen im 7 March 2022
