DECISION ON AFRICAN CANDIDATURES WITHIN THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM
Doc. EX.CL/577(XVI)
The Executive Council,
1. TAKES NOTE of the Report of the Ministerial Committee on Candidatures;
2. APPROVES the recommendations contained therein;
3. DECIDES to amend the Executive Council's Decision EX.CL/Dec.345 (X) to permit the early consideration of certain candidatures, within the year of elections, so that they can have a longer period of time to campaign regionally, continentally and internationally, in order to have a better chance to win the seat or the position.
4. ENDORSES the following Candidature:
a. Mrs. Mona Zulficar of Egypt for re-election to the membership of the Advisory Committee of the United Nations Human Rights Council, during the elections to be held at the Thirteenth Session of the Human Rights Council in March 2010 in Geneva, Switzerland.
5. ALSO ENDORSES the following candidatures:
i. The candidature of the Great Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya for membership of the United Nations Human Rights Council during the elections to be held in May 2010 in New York, USA;
ii. The candidature of Mauritania for the second allocated seat to the North African Region to the United Nations Human Rights Council during the elections to be held in May 2010 in New York, USA;
iii. Ambassador Agnes Kalibbala of Uganda for non-elective position of Under Secretary/Executive Director of UN HABITAT during the selection to be made by the UN Secretary General in New York in April 2010.
6. ENDORSES the following candidatures:
i) The candidature of Dr. M.Z. Madjodina of South Africa for re-election to the United Nations Human Rights Committee during the elections to be held at the Conference of the State Parties to the International Convenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), scheduled to take place in September 2010 New York, USA.
ii) The candidatures of Tanzania, Tunisia and Nigeria to the Board of the Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) scheduled to take place in September 2010 at the 54th Session of the General Conference in Vienna, Austria.
iii) The candidature of Burkina Faso to the Council of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) at the Plenipotentiary Conference scheduled to take place in October 2010 in Veracruz, Mexico.
7. ENDORSES the candidature of South Africa for the non-permanent membership in the United Nations Security Council for the period 2011-2012, during the elections to be held in New York, USA in October 2010.