Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Paruyr Hovhannisyan has been elected Vice-President of United Nations Economic and Social Council (UNECOSOC) along with Amar Bendjama of Algeria, Wellington Darío Bencosme Castaños of Dominican Republic and Héctor José Gómez Hernández of Spain.
In June 2024 Armenia was elected to the UN Economic and Social Council for the period of 2025-2027.
The candidacies of three countries – Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Azerbaijan – were presented for the two vacant seats allocated to the regional group of Eastern European countries in the Council elections.
The Economic and Social Council, headquartered in New York, is one of the main bodies of the United Nations. It consists of 54 UN member states and deals with promoting the economic, social and environmental aspects of sustainable development.