Decides that the seven seats for election by the General Assembly for membership in the Organizational Committee for this year shall be distributed among the five regional groups as follows: (a) two seats for African States; (b) one seat for Asian States; (c) one seat for Eastern European States; (d) three seats for Latin American and Caribbean States; (e) no seats for Western European and other States; also decides that the rules of procedure and established practice of the General Assembly for the election of members of its subsidiary bodies shall apply to its election of members of the Organizational Committee; decides that the term of membership shall be staggered, and that two members from different regional groups, to be drawn by lots in the first election, shall serve for an initial period of one year; also decides that each of the five regional groups shall have no less than three seats in the overall composition of the Organizational Committee.

Adopted without vote, 79th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 60th sess., Suppl. no. 49.