UNITED

NATIONS

                                                                                                                                     Distr.

                                                                                                                                     GENERAL

                                                                                                                                     E/1994/20/Add.1

                                                                                                                                     14 April 1994

                                                                                                                                     ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

Resumed organizational session for 1994

19 and 20 April 1994

Item 2 of the provisional agenda

ELECTIONS AND NOMINATIONS

Election of nine members of the Committee

on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Note by the Secretary-General

Addendum

1.       The Secretary-General has received additional nominations for election to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. The names of the persons nominated and the State party that nominated the candidates is set out below:

                 Name                                                                                             Proposed by

          Ade ADEKUOYE                                                                         Nigeria

          Mahmoud SAMIR AHMED                                                        Egypt

          Samuel GATABANTOU**                                                          Congo

2.       Biographical information on Mr. Mahmoud Samir Ahmed is contained in the annex below.

Annex

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION ON MAHMOUD SAMIR AHMED (EGYPT)

Date of birth: 1926.

Studies and research work

B.A., English Literature, Cairo University, 1947.

M.A., International Relations and Organization, American University, Washington, D.C., 1956. Thesis "American-Egyptian Relations".

Ph.D., Government and Politics: Columbia and Harvard Universities, 1960-1965. Thesis: The Neutrals and the Test-Ban Negotiations.

Fellow at the Centre for International Relations, Harvard University, 1964/65.

Publications

"The Non-Aligned and the Test-Ban Treaty", published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, New York (1965).

"Nasser's Arab Socialism: Its Place in World Ideologies".

Many articles in English and Arabic in international magazines on disarmament and international relations.

Diplomatic career

Joined the Egyptian foreign service in May 1948.

Worked his way up from attaché to Minister Plenipotentiary in the following posts:

Ankara; Washington, D.C., 1951-1956; Tunis; Bogota; Mexico; New York, 1960, Egyptian delegation to the United Nations; Geneva, 1963-1964, counsellor to Egyptian delegation to the Conference on Disarmament; London, 1967-1973, Minister at the Embassy.

Ambassador, Lima (Peru), 1974-1975.

Ambassador, Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations, 1975-1976.

Ambassador to Rome and Permanent Representative to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, 1976-1979.

Ambassador to Ethiopia, Permanent Representative to the Organization of African Unity, 1982-1979.

Ambassador to Australia, 1984-1986.

Under-Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cairo, 1979-1982, in charge of African Affairs, International Organizations, International Conferences, Legal Affairs, Information.

Career in international organizations

Counsellor, Egyptian delegation to the United Nations, New York, 1960-1964.

Counsellor-Adviser, Egyptian delegation to the Disarmament Conference, 1962-1964.

Ambassador, Alternate Permanent Representative to the United Nations, New York, 1975-1976.

Permanent Representative to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Rome, 1976-1979.

Permanent Representative to the Organization of African Unity and the Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, 1982-1984.

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