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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 1962. Unless otherwise noted, membership expires on December 31 of the year indicated in parentheses.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: I. United Nations
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Copyright © The IO Foundation 1963

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1 Elected for a two-year term by the General Assembly on October 17, 1962.

2 Elected for the year 1963 by the General Assembly on October 17, 1962, as according to an understanding reached at the sixteenth session I whereby Romania would resign on December 31, [1962, the position to be filled by the Philippines for the remainder of the term, through election at the seventeenth session.

3 To insure an equal balance between adminlg and non-administering members of the Council, only one vacancy had to be filled, since Belgium ceased to be a member of the Council as administering authority of Ruanda-Urundi, following the termination of the trusteeship agreement for this territory on July 1, 1962.

4 Elected for a three-year term by the General Assembly on October 17, 1962.

5 Elected or re-elected for a three-year term by the General Assembly on October 17, 1962.

6 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. Members of the Court are elected for nine-year terms by the Security Council and the General Assembly, voting concurrendy, and their terms of office expire on February 5 of the year listed.

7 Reappointed by the General Assembly on December 20, 1962, for the calendar years 1963 and 1964.

8 Members of the International Law Commission were elected for five-year terms commencing on January 1, 1962. Countries are listed for convenience of identification only, as members serve in their individual capacities and not as representatives of their countries.

9 Elected or re-elected by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) for a three-year term on April 17, 1962.

10 Membership on regional commissions is not for any specified term of years. The question of continuing the commissions themselves is reviewed periodically by ECOSOC.