8 GA 12 Ways and means to ensure a more representative World Heritage List

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12. When examining item 7 of the agenda concerning the means of ensuring an equitable representation of different regions and cultures of the world on the World Heritage Committee, the Assembly expressed the wish to be presented regularly with the charts prepared by the Secretariat: one presenting for each State Party the periods during which they have been members of the Committee, the other showing the distribution of Member States of the Committee according to the different regions. One delegate recalled that the seventh General Assembly had questioned the opportunity of increasing the number of Committee members because of the growing number of States Parties. The Assembly took note of the working document prepared by the Secretariat and expressed the wish that the matter be further considered by the World Heritage Committee.

8 GA 13-17 Elections to the World Heritage Committee

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13. Under item 8 of its agenda the General Assembly was called on to elect seven Members to the World Heritage Committee to replace the following seven Members who would have completed their term of office at the end of the twenty-sixth session of the General Conference: Bulgaria, Canada, Greece, India, Mexico, United Republic of Tanzania, and Yemen. The list of States Parties having submitted their candidature was read out to the Assembly. In accordance with Article 16, paragraph 5, of the Convention, the list of candidates was limited to those States Parties which had paid their contributions to the World Heritage Fund up to and including 1990. The following States Parties were declared candidates: China, Cyprus, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Kenya, Madagascar, Mexico, Philippines, Romania, Spain, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe.

14. On the decision of the Chairman, the elections took place by secret ballot. The delegates of Oman and Peru were appointed tellers.

The results of the first ballot which were announced by the Chairman were as follows:

First Ballot

Number of States Parties voting 117

Number of States absent 36

Number of abstentions 0

Number of invalid ballot papers 4

Number of votes recorded 81

Number of votes constituting the majority required to be elected 41

States obtaining the required majority of votes:

Egypt	59	Germany	51
China	57	Mexico	45
Spain	57	Philippines	44

The Chairman declared elected to the World Heritage Committee after the first ballot the above-mentioned States Parties.

16. In accordance with the Rules of Procedure, the second ballot was to be limited to those States which had obtained the greatest number of votes, provided that the number of States did not exceed twice the number of seats remaining to be filled. Among the remaining candidates, Cyprus and Finland obtained the greatest number of votes. A second ballot limited to these two States was held.

17. The results of the second ballot, which were announced by the Chairman, were as follows:

Second Ballot

Number of States Parties voting 117

Number of States absent 54

Number of abstentions 0

Number of invalid ballot papers 0

Number of votes recorded 63

Number of votes constituting the majority required to be elected 32

State obtaining the required majority of votes:

Cyprus 39

The Chairman declared Cyprus elected to the World heritage Committee after the second ballot.

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8 GA 12 Ways and means to ensure a more representative World Heritage List

8 GA 13-17 Elections to the World Heritage Committee