Decides to enlarge the mernbership of the Goveming Council of the United Nations Developrnent Programme to forty-eight mernbers to be elected from arnong States Mernbers of the United Nations or rnembers of specialized agencies or of the Intema-
tional Atomic Energy Agency, subject to the following conditions:
a
Twenty-seven seats shall be filled by developing countries, allocated as follows:
i
Eleven seats for African States;
ii
Nine seats for Asían States and Yugoslavia;
iii
Seven seats for Latin American States;
b
Twenty-one seats shall be filled by economically more advanced countries, allocated as follows:
i
Seventeen seats for Western European and other States;
ii
Four seats for Bastero European States;
e
Toe composition of seats in each group should at all times give due expression to adequate subregional representation;
d
Elections to these forty-eight seats shall be for a term of three years and retiring members shall be eligible for re-election;
2
Requeststhe Economic and Social Council to elect at its resumed fifty-first session, the additional elev¡n members of the Governing Council.
14 December 1971.
21 See Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 6 (E/4954 and Corr.1 ), chap. VIII, and ibid., Supplement No. 6A (E/5043/Rev.1), chap. IX.
22 / bid., Supplement No. 6A (E/5043/Rev.1 ).
23 [bid., Supplement No. 6 (E/4954 and Corr.1), chap. III. 24 !bid., Supplement No. 6A (E/5043/Rev.1 ), chap. III. 25 [bid., Supplement No. 6 (E/4954 and Corr.l ), para. 52.
