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Membership Chart
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
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Listed below is the membership of UN bodies for 1961. Unless otherwise noted, membership expires on December 31 of the year indicated.
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- International Organizations: Summary of Activities: I. United Nations
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- Copyright © The IO Foundation 1961
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1 Elected for a two-year term by the General Assembly on December 9, 1960.
2 Elected for a two-year term by the General Assembly on December 20, 1960, on the understanding that the candidate would resign on December 31, 1961, the position subsequently to be filled by Ireland for the remainder of the term through election at the sixteenth session.
3 Elected for the year 1961 by the General Assembly on December 9, i960, as according to an understanding reached at the fourteenth session whereby Poland would resign on December 31, 1960, the position to be filled by Turkey for the remainder of the term through election at the fifteenth session.
4 With the attainment of independence of Togo and Somalia in the course of 1960, and their removal from the list of trust territories within the competence of the Council, both France and Italy ceased to be administering members. France, however, continued to sit on the Council as a permanent member of the Security Council. In the absence of a decision by the General Assembly regarding the future composition of the Trusteeship Council, the question remained open, despite the new preponderance of non administering members.
5 The General Assembly adjourned the first part of its fifteenth session having elected only five states to fill the six vacancies on the Economic and Social Council. The question of filling the remaining vacancy was to be taken up at an early stage of the resumed session, scheduled for March 1961.
6 Elected or re-elected for a three-year term by the General Assembly on December 9, 1960.
7 Countries are listed for convenience of identification only, as judges of the International Court serve in their individual capacities and not as representatives of their countries. Terms of office expire on February 5 of the year listed.
8 Elected for a nine-year term by the Security Council and the General Assembly on November 16 and 17, 1960.
9 Elected by the Security Council and the General Assembly on November 16, 1960, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Judge Sir Hersch Lauterpacht on May 8, 1960.
10 Re-appointed by the General Assembly on December 20, 1960, for the calendar years 1961 and 1962.
11 Elected or re-elected for five-year terms by the General Assembly on December 18, 1956, except where noted otherwise. Countries are listed for convenience of identification only, as members serve in their individual capacities and not as representatives of their countries.
12 Elected by the International Law Commission on May 16, 1960, to fill the casual vacancies caused by the election of Mr. Richard J. Al faro to the International Court of Justice and the resignation of Mr. Thanat Khoman. Mr. Yasseen attended the meetings of the Commission from May 23 and Mr. Jiménez de Aréchaga from June 1 onwards.
13 Elected or re-elected for four-year terms by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) on April 21, 1960.
14 Elected or re-elected for three-year terms by ECOSOC on April 21, 1960.
15 Countries mentioned with no specific date were elected at the ninth session of ECOSOC for an indefinite term. The others were elected at the 27th session for a term of three years.
16 Membership on regional commissions is not for any specified term of years. The question of continuing the commissions themselves is considered periodically by ECOSOC.