In his briefing of 14 October 2021:

General Assembly chooses new members for the Human Rights Council

This morning, the General Assembly elected 18 new members to the Human Rights Council. Benin, Cameroon, Eritrea, Republic of the Gambia, and Somalia were elected in the African Group.
India, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates will have a seat each in the Group of Asia Pacific States. Lithuania and Montenegro secured the two seats in the Group of Eastern European States.
Argentina, Honduras and Paraguay will be the new representatives of the Group of Latin America and Caribbean Countries at the Human Rights Council, in Geneva. The Western European and Other Groups will have Finland, Luxembourg, and the USA which were also elected earlier today.
The new members of the Human Rights Council will start the three-year-mandate on 1 January 2022.

The numbers of votes obtained by each Member State:
Benin: 189, Gambia: 186, Cameroon: 179, Somalia: 171 and Eritrea: 144.
India: 184, Kazakhstan: 184, Malaysia: 183, Qatar: 182, United Arab Emirates: 180.
Lithuania: 178, Montenegro: 178
Paraguay: 185, Argentina: 175, Honduras: 172
Finland: 180, Luxembourg: 180, United States of America: 168.


GA pays tribute to former President of Algeria and PGA 29 Abdelaziz Bouteflika

Members States took a minute of silence today as they paid tribute to the President of the 29th Session of the General Assembly and former President of Algeria, H.E. Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who died last month.
The current PGA, Abdulla Shahid, conveyed his deepest condolences to the Government and people of Algeria, as well as to the family of the departed leader.
Mr. Shahid said that the former Algerian President was a “seasoned diplomat and a skilled behind-the-scenes negotiator. As one of the youngest persons ever elected President of the General Assembly, in 1974, he was committed to upholding the values of multilateralism and the principles of the United Nations Charter.”

PGA’s Agenda
Mr. Abdulla Shahid presided over the Human Rights Council election. This afternoon, the PGA will meet with the Permanent Representative of Portugal, at his Office, H.E. Mr. Francisco Duarte Lopes.
Mr. Shahid will also meet the L69 Countries and receive in a bilateral meeting the Ambassadors of the G-4 group (Brazil, Germany, Japan and India) on Security Council reform. This evening, the PGA will attend a dinner hosted by the PR of Japan, H.E. Mr. Ishikane Kimihiro.

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