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General Assembly Composition
The General Assembly is the main deliberative assembly of the
United Nations. Composed of all
United Nations member states, the assembly meets in regular
yearly sessions under a president
elected from among the member states. Over a two-week period at
the start of each session, allmembers have the opportunity to
address the assembly. Traditionally, the Secretary-General
makes
the first statement, followed by the president of the assembly.
The first session was convened on
10 January 1946 in the Westminster Central Hall in London and
included representatives of 51nations.
When the General Assembly votes on important questions, a
two-thirds majority of those present
and voting is required. Examples of important questions include:
recommendations on peace andsecurity; election of members to
organs; admission, suspension, and expulsion of members; and,
budgetary matters. All other questions are decided by majority
vote. Each member country has one
vote. Apart from approval of budgetary matters, resolutions are
not binding on the members. TheAssembly may make recommendations on
any matters within the scope of the UN, except matters
of peace and security that are under Security Council
consideration.The six main committees are:
First Committee (Disarmament and International Security
Committee) is concerned withdisarmament and related international
security questions;
Second Committee (Economic and Financial Committee) is concerned
with economic questions; Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and
Cultural Committee) deals with social and
humanitarian issues;
Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization
Committee) deals with a variety ofpolitical subjects not dealt with
by the First Committee, as well as with decolonization;
Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary Committee)deals
with the administration andbudget of the United Nations; and
Sixth Committee (Legal Committee) deals with international legal
matters.
Security Council Composition
The Security Council is made up of 15 member states, consisting
of 5 permanent members
China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States
and 10 non-permanentmembers, currently Austria, Bosnia and
Herzegovina,Brazil, Gabon, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico,
Nigeria,Turkey, and Uganda. The five permanent members holdveto
poweroversubstantive but
not procedural resolutions allowing a permanent member to block
adoption but not to block thedebate of a resolution unacceptable to
it. The ten temporary seats are held for two-year terms with
member states voted in by the General Assembly on a regional
basis. The presidency of the
Security Council is rotated alphabetically each month,[8]and is
held by Lebanon for the month ofMay 2010.
ICJ Composition
The ICJ is composed of fifteen judges elected to nine year terms
by the UN General Assembly and
the UN Security Council from a list of persons nominated by the
national groups in the Permanent
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