Meet the first Slovak president of the UN General Assembly

Mon, 11 Sep 2017 - 02:00 GMT

Miroslav Lajcak is the first Slovak to hold the GA president post. In 2016, he was nominated to succeed Ban Ki-moon as U.N. Secretary-General.

Timeline of U.N. General Assembly presidents in the last decade

Sat, 09 Sep 2017 - 04:26 GMT

UN member states elect a president for one year in line with an existing regional rotational scheme that allows the presidency to rotate between five geographic groups