UNECE elects its bureau
57th session of the UNECE
(Palais des Nations, Geneva, 7-10 May 2002)
Before the closing of its fifty-seventh session the United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) elected the Bureau for its fifty-eighth
session. Ambassador Clyde Kull, Permanent Representative of Estonia,
and Ambassador Yaakov Levy, Permanent Representative of Israel,
were proposed to serve as Chairperson of the Commission.
After a secret ballot, Mr. Clyde Kull of Estonia was elected
Chairperson of the Economic Commission for Europe.
Ambassador Hans Heinemann, Permanent Representative of the Netherlands,
Ambassador Yaakov Levy, Permanent Representative of Israel, and Ambassador
Mykhailo Skuratovskyi, Permanent Representative of Ukraine, were elected Vice-Chairpersons.
For further information please contact:
UNECE Information Service
Palais des Nations
CH - 1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Tel: +41(0)22 917 44 44
Fax: +41(0)22 917 05 05
E-mail: info.ece@unece.org
Web site: http://www.unece.org/
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UNECE member States: Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan,
Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Croatia, Cyprus,
Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece,
Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia,
Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco, Netherlands, Norway,
Poland, Portugal, Republic of Moldova, Romania, Russian Federation, San Marino,
Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, The former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America, Uzbekistan, Yugoslavia
Ref: ECE/GEN/02/16