LITHUANIA ELECTED ECOSOC MEMBER
Created 2004-10-29
Lithuania was elected a member of the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on 28 October in the United Nations General Assembly’s 59th Session in New York.
Lithuania will undertake activities in the ECOSOC in January 2005 and end them by the beginning of 2007.
Lithuania was elected by secret vote and was supported by 170 United Nations member states. 189 states took part in the voting.
Lithuania has become a member of one of the main UN institutions for the first time.
The ECOSOC is comprised of 54 member states, elected for a period of three years.
Every year, 18 new members of the Council are elected. On 28 October, 16 new ECOSOC members were picked: Australia, Denmark, Iceland and the United Kingdom in the Western Europe and other countries’ regional group, Lithuania and Russia in the Eastern Europe regional group, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea and the Republic of South Africa in the Africa regional group, China, India, Pakistan and Thailand in the Asia regional group, Brazil and Mexico in the Latin America and Caribbean regional group.
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