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NOMINATION DU DIRECTEUR GENERAL
APPOINTMENT OF THE DIRECTOR-GENERAL
NOMBRAMIENTO DEL DIRECTOR GENERAL
НАЗНАЧЕНИЕ ГЕНЕРАЛЬНОГО ДИРЕКТОРА
1.1 The PRESIDENT:
Ladies and gentlemen, I declare open the twentieth plenary meeting of the General Conference. The first
part of this plenary meeting will be conducted in private as stipulated in Rule 109 of the Rules of Procedure of
the General Conference. According to Rule 63 of these Rules of Procedure, “When it is decided, in exceptional
circumstances, to hold a private meeting, all persons shall be excluded except the members of those delegations
which are entitled to vote, representatives and observers entitled to participate without vote in the deliberations of
the bodies concerned, and the necessary members of the Secretariat”. We shall begin the private meeting once
those not authorized to attend have left the room.
(The public meeting is suspended at 10.25 a.m. and resumes at 10.40 a.m.)
1.2 The PRESIDENT:
Ladies and gentlemen, we shall now resume our work. I would like to remind you that the provisions of
the Constitution and the Rules of Procedure applicable to the appointment of the Director-General are Article VI,
paragraph 2, of the Constitution, and Rules 108 to 111 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Conference.
1.3 The Chairperson of the Executive Board will submit to the General Conference meeting in plenary the
name of the candidate to the post of Director-General proposed by the Executive Board (30 C/NOM/3), the draft
contract between the Organization and the Director-General (30 C/46) and the draft resolution
(30 C/PLEN/DR.2).
1.4 Following that the General Conference will vote by secret ballot on the name of the candidate, that is,
Part I of the draft resolution contained in document 30 C/PLEN/DR.2. If at the end of this ballot the candidate
presented by the Executive Board is appointed, I will submit for approval by the General Conference the draft
contract, in other words, Part II of the draft resolution in question. I now give the floor to the Chairperson of the
Executive Board, Mr Chetsanga.
2. Mr CHETSANGA (Zimbabwe), Chairperson of the Executive Board:
Madam President, in my earlier presentation I recapitulated the details of the procedure followed by the
Executive Board to make its final nomination of a candidate for the post of Director-General of UNESCO. The
last point I wish to mention is that the Executive Board held private meetings on 6, 13, 18, 19 and 20 October to
consider the subject of the nomination of a candidate for the post of Director-General of UNESCO in conformity
with the provisions of the Constitution. At its 157th session, the Executive Board decided to submit to the
General Conference, in conformity with Rule 108 of the latter’s Rules of Procedure, the draft contract between
UNESCO and the Director-General. Finally, Madam President, after taking all of these precautions, the
Executive Board proposes to the General Conference at this 30th session the candidature of Mr Koïchiro
Matsuura of Japan for appointment as the Director-General of UNESCO. Thank you.
3. The PRESIDENT:
Thank you, Mr Chetsanga. I now give the floor to the Secretary of the General Conference, who will
explain the voting procedure in detail.
4.1 Le SECRETAIRE :
Merci, Madame la Présidente. En premier lieu, le Secrétariat va remettre à chaque délégation trois
bulletins de vote et une enveloppe blanche. Les délégations appelées à voter devront glisser dans l'enveloppe l'un
des trois bulletins qui leur aura été remis et un seulement. La présence de deux bulletins rendrait le vote nul.
4.2 Les délégations qui désirent voter pour le candidat proposé par le Conseil utiliseront le bulletin qui porte
la mention "OUI". Les délégations qui souhaitent voter contre ce candidat utiliseront le bulletin qui porte la
mention "NON". Et enfin les délégations qui désirent s'abstenir mettront dans l'enveloppe le bulletin qui ne porte
aucune mention ; il est de couleur blanche.
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