Bangladesh's foreign minister elected UN General Assembly president
AP News
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Bangladesh's Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman has won a hotly contested race to be the next president of the 193-member United Nations General Assembly.
Rahman defeated Cyprus' Ambassador Andreas Kakouris on Tuesday 99-91, with three countries not voting.
He will succeed Germany’s former foreign minister, Annalena Baerbock. whose one-year term ends in September.
The presidency of the world body rotates by region and this year it was the Asia-Pacific region’s turn.
While the presidency of the General Assembly is largely ceremonial, it is also prestigious.
It is the U.N. organ where countries large and small can speak — and is scene of the only annual gathering of world leaders, in September.