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- Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces was elected as the President of the 73rd session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).
- She will be succeeding Miroslav Lajcak, the current Assembly President.
- Poet and politician, Espinosa secured 128 votes against 62 votes obtained by UN Ambassador Mary Elizabeth Flores Flake of Honduras, the only other candidate.
- With this, Espinosa Garces became the fourth woman to head the UNGA.
- The previous women leaders of the Assembly were
- India’sVijaya Lakshmi Pandit in 1953
- Liberia’s Angie Elisabeth Brooks in 1969 and
- Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa of Bahrain in 2006.
- Espinosa is also the first woman ever from Latin America and the Caribbean to preside over the Assembly.
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