President
The current president of ECOSOC is Ambassador Miloš Koterec of the Slovak Republic. The president is elected for a one-year term and chosen from the small or mid-sized powers represented on ECOSOC.
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Famous quotes containing the word president:
“There is a potential 4-6 percentage point net gain for the President [George Bush] by replacing Dan Quayle on the ticket with someone of neutral stature.”
—Mary Matalin, U.S. Republican political advisor, author, and James Carville b. 1946, U.S. Democratic political advisor, author. All’s Fair: Love, War, and Running for President, p. 205, Random House (1994)
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