UN General Assembly elects foreign minister of Maldives as President

The UN General Assembly, on Monday voted to elect the Foreign Minister of the Maldives, Abdallah Shahid, as President of the 76th session.

In what was a contested election, featuring former Afghan Foreign Minister, Zalmai Rassoul, Shahid garnered 143 votes while Rassoul got 48 votes.

On May 6, President of the UN General Assembly, Volkan Bozkir had convened informal interactive dialogues in the General Assembly Hall – as mandated by resolution 71/323 – in which the candidates responded to the questions submitted earlier by civil society and other…