Abstract
The fourth session of the General Assembly met at Lake Success and Flushing Meadows from September 20 to December 10, 1949. General Carlos P. Romulo (Philippines) was elected president for the session on the Assembly's first ballot, receiving 53 votes to 5 for Vladimir Clementis (Czechoslovakia). The heads of delegations of Brazil, China, France, Pakistan, the USSR, the United Kingdom and the United States were elected as vice presidents, and the following chairmen of the six main committees were chosen: political and security committee, Lester Pearson (Canada); economic and financial committee, Hernan Santa Cruz (Chile); social, cultural and humanitarian committee, Carlos Eduardo Stolk (Venezuela); trusteeship committee, Hermod Lanning (Denmark); administrative and budgetary committee, Alexei Kyrou (Greece); and legal committee, Manfred Lachs (Poland)
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