{"id":40588,"date":"2026-06-03T16:39:55","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=40588"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:43:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:43:18","slug":"bangladeshi-foreign-minister-khalilur-rahman-elected-president-of-81st-un-general-assembly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/40588","title":{"rendered":"Bangladeshi Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman elected as president of 81st UN General Assembly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWYORK: Bangladesh has created history on the global stage as its foreign minister Dr. Khalilur Rahman has been elected as the new President of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly after a tough contest.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bangladesh&#8217;s Dr. Khalilur Rahman and Cyprus&#8217; candidate Andreas Kakouris have contested for the post.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the General Assembly, consisting of 193 countries, exercised their right to vote in which Bangladesh&#8217;s foreign minister Dr. Khalilur Rahman was elected as the new President of the United Nations General Assembly for 2026 and 27 by securing 99 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Cyprus&#8217; candidate Andreas Kakouris received 91 votes. It is necessary to obtain 96 votes to be elected as the President.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Khalilur Rahman will preside over the 81st annual session of the United Nations General Assembly to be held this year and will assume his office in September.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan&#8217;s deputy prime minister and foreign minister Ishaq Dar has congratulated Dr. Khalilur Rehman on being elected President of the General Assembly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWYORK: Bangladesh has created history on the global stage as its foreign minister Dr. Khalilur Rahman has been elected as the new President of the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly after a tough contest. Bangladesh&#8217;s Dr. Khalilur Rahman and Cyprus&#8217; candidate Andreas Kakouris have contested for the post. Members of the General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40588"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40599,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40588\/revisions\/40599"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}