Source: United Nations MIL OSI b
2026 Session,
1st Meeting (AM)
ECOSOC/7219
The Economic and Social Council opens its 2026 session today, electing its Bureau and hearing from Li Junhua, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs.
Lok Bahadur Thapa of Nepal has been endorsed to serve as the President for the session. Amar Bendjamaa of Algeria; Paruyr Hovhannisyan of Armenia; Darío Bencosme Castaños of the Dominican Republic; and Héctor Gómez Hernández of Spain have been nominated to serve as the session’s Vice-Presidents.
The 54-member Council will also adopt its provisional agenda (document E/2026/1) as well as take action on the draft resolution “Working arrangements for the 2026 session of the Economic and Social Council”, (document E/2026/L.1) and decide its seating arrangement for the session.
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