Eastern European Group
Formation | 1961 |
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Type | Voting Bloc of the United Nations Regional Groups |
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Membership | 23 States |
The Eastern European Group (EEG), also known as Countries with Economies in Transition (CEIT), is one of the five unofficial Regional Groups in the United Nations that act as voting blocs and negotiation forums. Regional voting blocs were formed in 1961 to encourage voting to various UN bodies from regional groups. The group consists of countries in Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Baltics, Central Europe, and the Caucasus, which form the area of the former Eastern Bloc. Europe is divided between the EEG and the Western European and Others Group. The group currently has 23 members.
History
Prior to the creation of the Regional Groups in 1966, the UNSC had an Eastern European and Asian Seat, that was taken between 1946 and 1966 by countries from Eastern Europe (including Greece and Turkey, members of the modern Western European and Others Group (WEOG)) and Asia (members of the modern Asia-Pacific Group). The Eastern European Group exists since 1966. It has changed significantly due to the dissolution of some of its members. These dissolutions are those of the Soviet Union (1991), Yugoslavia (1991-2006), and Czechoslovakia (1993). Also, through the German reunification, the Eastern European Group lost East Germany as its member. All the new countries created in Europe stayed in the bloc, and the Central Asian post-Soviet states joined the Asia-Pacific Group.
Members
Current members
Historical members
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Representation
The Eastern European Group has two seats in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC); the permanent seat of Russia, and one elected seat, currently held by Ukraine. The Group further has 6 seats on the United Nations Economic and Social Council and 6 seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council. It is also eligible for having its nationals elected as President of the United Nations General Assembly in years ending with 2 and 7; most recently, Vuk Jeremić of Serbia was elected to this position in June 2012 and was the office holder of the Sixty-seventh session.
List of presidents of the United Nations General Assembly
Year elected | Name of President[2] | Group member state | Notes |
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1967 | Corneliu Mănescu | ||
1972 | Stanisław Trepczyński | ||
1977 | Lazar Mojsov | Macedonian | |
1982 | Imre Hollai | ||
1987 | Peter Florin | ||
1992 | Stoyan Ganev | ||
1997 | Hennadiy Udovenko | ||
2002 | Jan Kavan | ||
2007 | Srgjan Kerim | ||
2012 | Vuk Jeremić | Election | |
2017 | Miroslav Lajčák | ||
2022 |
List of presidents of the United Nations Security Council
Permanent seat
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Elected seat
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List of presidents of the United Nations Economic and Social Council
Year elected | Name of President[29] | Group member state | Notes |
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1946 | Andrija Štampar (Acting) | 3rd session | |
1947 | Ján Papánek (Acting) | 5th session | |
1962 | Jerzy Michałowski | ||
1967 | Milan Klusák | ||
1972 | Karoly Szarka | ||
1977 | Ladislav Šmíd | ||
1982 | Miljan Komatina | ||
1987 | Eugeniusz Noworyta | ||
1992 | Darko Šilović | elected in January | |
Robert Mroziewicz | elected in June | ||
1997 | Karel Kovanda | ||
2002 | Ivan Šimonović | ||
2007 | Dalius Čekuolis | ||
2012 | Miloš Koterec | ||
2017 | Marie Chatardová |
Timeline of membership
As the Eastern European Group changed significantly over time, the number of its members had also changed.
Years | Number of members | Notes |
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1966–1973 | 10 | The Eastern Bloc; Ukraine (as Ukrainian SSR) and Belarus (as Byelorussian SSR) were members on their own right (see here) |
1973–1990 | 11 | with the German Democratic Republic |
1990 | 10 | German reunification |
1991 | 13 | Independence of the Baltic states |
1992 | 20 | Dissolution of the Soviet Union, Breakup of Yugoslavia |
1993–2006 | 22 | Dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Independence of the Republic of Macedonia |
2006–present | 23 | Independent Montenegro |
See also
- Community for Democracy and Rights of Nations
- Community of Democratic Choice
- Council of Europe
- European Neighborhood Policy
- Euronest Parliamentary Assembly
- Eurasian Union
- Eurovoc
- Eastern Europe
- Eastern Partnership
- Future enlargement of the European Union
- List of political parties in Eastern Europe
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
- Post-Soviet states
References
- ↑ Referred to by the United Nations as "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
- ↑ Presidents of the General Assembly of the United Nations. Un.org. Retrieved on 2016-10-15.
- ↑ Referred to by the United Nations as "The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
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- ↑ Presidents of the Security Council : 1970-1979, un.org.
- ↑ Presidents of the Security Council : 1980-1989, un.org.
- ↑ Presidents of the Security Council : 1990-1999 Archived October 18, 2012, at the Wayback Machine., un.org.
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- ↑ Security Council Press Statement On Darfur
- ↑ Security Council Press Statement On United Nations Regional Centre For Preventive Diplomacy For Central Asia
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- ↑ Security Council Press Statement on Democratic Republic of the Congo
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- ↑ "SC/11269 - Security Council Press Statement on Lebanon". United Nations Department of Public Information, News and Media Division, New York. Retrieved 4 February 2014.
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- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-12. Retrieved 2017-01-01.
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- ↑ Presidents of the United Nations Economic and Social Council. Un.org. Retrieved on 2016-04-23.
- The United Nations Security Council by The Green Papers Worldwide