List of meetings of the UN General Assembly

Map with all countries that have ever appointed the President of the United Nations General Assembly.

María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés (2018) - President of the 73rd General Assembly

The session of the General Assembly of the United Nations usually begins in September of each year.

The President also presides over special or emergency meetings of the body. The presidency is an office which is awarded annually by the general assembly.

On June 5, 2018, María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés ( Ecuador ) was elected Chairwoman - the fourth woman in the history of the United Nations and the first woman since 2006. She took up office in September 2018 and will serve for one year.

In 1946 the session took place in Westminster Central Hall .

Since then they have taken place in the United Nations General Assembly Building in New York City .

Session number	year	Name of the chairman	Nationality of the chairman
1.	1946	Paul-Henri Spaak	Belgium
1st special session	1947	Oswaldo Aranha	Brazil
2.	1947	Oswaldo Aranha	Brazil
2nd special session	1948	José Arce	Argentina
3.	1948	Herbert Vere Evatt	Australia
4th	1949	Carlos P. Romulo	Philippines
5.	1950	Nasrollah Entezam	Iran
6th	1951	Luis Padilla Nervo	Mexico
7th	1952	Lester B. Pearson	Canada
8th.	1953	Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit	India
9.	1954	Eelco N. van Kleffens	Netherlands
10.	1955	José Maza	Chile
1st emergency meeting	1956	Rudecindo Ortega Masson	Chile
2. Emergency meeting	1956	Rudecindo Ortega Masson	Chile
11.	1956	Wan Waithayakon	Thailand
12.	1957	Leslie Munro	New Zealand
3. Emergency meeting	1958	Leslie Munro	New Zealand
13.	1958	Charles Habib Malik	Lebanon
14th	1959	Víctor Andrés Belaúnde	Peru
4. Emergency meeting	1960	Víctor Andrés Belaúnde	Peru
15th	1960	Frederick H. Boland	Ireland
3rd special session	1961	Frederick H. Boland	Ireland
16.	1961	Mongi Slim	Tunisia
17th	1962	Muhammad Zafrulla Khan	Pakistan
4th special session	1963	Muhammad Zafrulla Khan	Pakistan
18th	1963	Carlos Sosa Rodríguez	Venezuela
19th	1964	Alex Quaison-Sackey	Ghana
20th	1965	Amintore Fanfani	Italy
21st	1966	Abdul Rahman Pazhwak	Afghanistan
5th special session	1967	Abdul Rahman Pazhwak	Afghanistan
5. Emergency meeting	1967	Abdul Rahman Pazhwak	Afghanistan
22nd	1967	Corneliu Mănescu	Romania
23.	1968	Emilio Arenales Catalan	Guatemala
24.	1969	Angie E. Brooks	Liberia
25th	1970	Edvard Hambro	Norway
26th	1971	Adam Malik	Indonesia
27.	1972	Stanisław Trepczyński	Poland
28.	1973	Leopoldo Benites	Ecuador
6th special session	1974	Leopoldo Benites	Ecuador
29	1974	Abdelaziz Bouteflika	Algeria
7th special session	1975	Abdelaziz Bouteflika	Algeria
30th	1975	Gaston Thorn	Luxembourg
31.	1976	HS Amerasinghe	Sri Lanka
32.	1977	Lazar Mojsov	Yugoslavia
8th special session	1978	Lazar Mojsov	Yugoslavia
9th special session	1978	Lazar Mojsov	Yugoslavia
10th special session	1978	Lazar Mojsov	Yugoslavia
33.	1978	Indalecio Liévano	Colombia
34.	1979	Salim A. Salim	Tanzania
6. Emergency meeting	1980	Salim A. Salim	Tanzania
7. Emergency meeting	1980	Salim A. Salim	Tanzania
11th special session	1980	Salim A. Salim	Tanzania
35.	1980	Rüdiger von Wechmar	Federal Republic of Germany
8. Emergency meeting	1981	Rüdiger von Wechmar	Federal Republic of Germany
36.	1981	Ismat T. Kittani	Iraq
7th emergency meeting (resumption)	1982	Ismat T. Kittani	Iraq
9. Emergency meeting	1982	Ismat T. Kittani	Iraq
12th special session	1982	Ismat T. Kittani	Iraq
37.	1982	Imre Hollai	Hungary
38.	1983	Jorge E. Illueca	Panama
39.	1984	Paul JF Lusaka	Zambia
40.	1985	Jaime de Piniés	Spain
13th special session	1986	Jaime de Piniés	Spain
41.	1986	Humayun Rasheed Choudhury	Bangladesh
14th special session	1986	Humayun Rasheed Choudhury	Bangladesh
42.	1987	Peter Florin	GDR
15th special session	1988	Peter Florin	GDR
43.	1988	Dante M. Caputo	Argentina
44.	1989	Joseph Nanven Garba	Nigeria
16th special session	1989	Joseph Nanven Garba	Nigeria
17th special session	1990	Joseph Nanven Garba	Nigeria
18th special session	1990	Joseph Nanven Garba	Nigeria
45.	1990	Guido de Marco	Malta
46.	1991	Samir S. Shihabi	Saudi Arabia
47.	1992	Stoyan Ganev	Bulgaria
48.	1993	Samuel R. Insanally	Guyana
49.	1994	Amara Essy	Cote d'Ivoire
50.	1995	Diogo Freitas do Amaral	Portugal
51.	1996	Razali Ismail	Malaysia
10. Emergency meeting	1997	Razali Ismail	Malaysia
19th special session	1997	Razali Ismail	Malaysia
52.	1997	Hennadij Udovenko	Ukraine
10. Emergency meeting (resumption)	1998	Hennadij Udovenko	Ukraine
20th special session	1998	Hennadij Udovenko	Ukraine
53.	1998	Didier Opertti	Uruguay
10. Emergency meeting (resumption)	1999	Didier Opertti	Uruguay
21st special session	1999	Didier Opertti	Uruguay
54.	1999	Theo-Ben Gurirab	Namibia
22nd special session	1999	Theo-Ben Gurirab	Namibia
23rd special session	2000	Theo-Ben Gurirab	Namibia
24th special session	2000	Theo-Ben Gurirab	Namibia
55.	2000	Harri Holkeri	Finland
10. Emergency meeting (resumption)	2000	Harri Holkeri	Finland
25th special session	2001	Harri Holkeri	Finland
26th special session	2001	Harri Holkeri	Finland
56.	2001	Han Seung-soo	South Korea
27th Special Session World Summit for Children	2002	Han Seung-soo	South Korea
57.	2002	Jan Kavan	Czech Republic
58.	2003	Julian Robert Hunte	St. Lucia
59.	2004	Jean Ping	Gabon
28th Special Session Liberation of the Nazi Concentration Camps	2005	Jean Ping	Gabon
60.	2005	Jan Eliasson	Sweden
61.	2006	Haya Rashid Al Khalifa	Bahrain
62.	2007	Srgjan Kerim	Macedonia
63.	2008	Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann	Nicaragua
64.	2009	Ali Abdussalam Treki	Libya
65.	2010	Joseph Deiss	Switzerland
66.	2011	Nassir Abdulaziz al-Nasser	Qatar
67.	2012	Vuk Jeremic	Serbia
68.	2013	John William Ashe	Antigua and Barbuda
69.	2014	Sam Kutesa	Uganda
70.	2015	Mogens Lykketoft	Denmark
71.	2016	Peter Thomson	Fiji
72.	2017	Miroslav Lajčák	Slovakia
73.	2018	María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés	Ecuador
74.	2019	Tijjani Muhammad gang	Nigeria

Individual evidence

1. ↑ un.org: María Fernanda Espinosa Garcés - Biography - United Nations General Assembly, President of the 73rd session , accessed September 27, 2018