INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
India topped the election to the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations
UN after garnering the highest number of votes besides getting elected by acclamation to other subsidiary bodies in five separate polls.The
Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Syed Akbaruddin told PTI that the "results reflect, yet again, the broad support and many
balloting, the Council elected Bahrain, China, India and Pakistan in the Asia Pacific States category and Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and Nicaragua
followed by Pakistan (43), Bahrain (40) and China 39
Iran lost the elections, having got only 27 votes
The Council elected by acclamation 11 other nations to serve the same four-year term
The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations is a standing committee of ECOSOC and its main tasks include consideration of applications
for consultative status and requests for reclassification submitted by NGOs and consideration of quadrennial reports submitted by NGOs in
General and Special categories.India was also elected by acclamation to the Commission on Population and Development for a term beginning
advising the Council on population issues and trends, integrating population and development strategies and population and related
development policies and programmes.The Council elected India and Kuwait (Asia-Pacific States) by acclamation to the Commission for Social
on social policies of a general character and, in particular, on all matters in the social field not covered by the specialised
inter-governmental agencies.India was among the 17 members elected by acclamation to the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal
Burkina Faso, Nigeria and Swaziland, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Thailand, Belarus, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico Austria, France, Turkey and the United
Its mandate includes improving international action to combat national and transnational crime and the efficiency and fairness of criminal
members will serve three-year terms beginning January, 2019.For the Executive Board of the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the
Empowerment of Women (UN-Women), the Council elected by acclamation 16 members, including India, for a three-year term beginning January
2019.(This story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
