If the elected Chair is not able to serve in that capacity for a meeting, the Vice Chair shall serve as Chair.

At the first Executive Board meeting of each calendar year, the Board shall elect a Chair and a Vice Chair from among its members.

The Chair and Vice Chair shall serve in their respective capacities at any meeting of the Executive Board.

At the 3rd meeting, the Chair invited the representative of UNEP to make a statement.

At the 2nd meeting, the Chair invited the representative of the GEF Secretariat to make a statement.

At its 4th meeting, the SBI considered draft conclusions proposed by the Chair.

The secretary of the Board shall preside over the opening of the first Executive Board meeting of a calendar year and conduct the election of the new Chair and Vice Chair.

At its 4th meeting, the SBI considered and adopted conclusions proposed by the Chair.

At its 4th meeting, the SBI considered and adopted conclusions proposed by the Chair.

At its 4th meeting, the SBI considered and adopted conclusions proposed by the Chair.

At its 4th meeting, the SBI considered and adopted conclusions proposed by the Chair.

At its 4th meeting, the SBI considered and adopted conclusions proposed by the Chair.

At its 4th meeting, the SBI considered and adopted conclusions proposed by the Chair.

At its 4th meeting, the SBI considered and adopted conclusions proposed by the Chair.

At its 4th meeting, the SBI considered and adopted conclusions proposed by the Chair.

The Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties is expected to endorse the selected representatives and take note of the selected Chair and Vice Chair of the Committee.

In September 2005, UNODC will chair the fifth meeting of the Coordination Panel in Vienna.

Taking into consideration the short duration of the meeting, the Working Group may wish to consider electing a chair and a rapporteur only.

At its 4th meeting, the SBI considered and adopted conclusions proposed by the Chair, as amended.

At its 4th meeting, the SBI considered and adopted conclusions proposed by the Chair, as amended.

At the same meeting, on a proposal by the Chair, the SBSTA authorized the Rapporteur to complete the report on the session, with the assistance of the secretariat and under the guidance of the Chair.

At the 1st meeting, the Chair recalled rule 27 of the draft rules of procedure being applied, whereby the SBI is expected to elect its Vice Chair and Rapporteur.

The Chair informed the meeting that each will serve for a term of one year, which may be renewed for another year.

At the 1st meeting, the Chair invited the representative of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to make a statement.

Mr. Tom Land (United States of America) and Mr. David Okioga (Kenya), will co chair the meeting

Before the end of each meeting, the Chair shall present draft conclusions and decisions of the meeting for consideration and approval by the Executive Board.

At its seventh meeting, the group elected Mr. Paul Desanker (Malawi) as Chair, Ms Madeleine Diouf (Senegal) as Vice Chair and francophone rapporteur and Mr. Puroshottam Kunwar (Nepal) as anglophone rapporteur.

Following the discussion, the Co Chair proposed, and the meeting agreed, to forward the draft decision to the Seventeenth Meeting of the Parties in square brackets.

At the 1st meeting, the Chair invited Mr. La'avasa Malua (Samoa), Chair of the Least Developed Countries Expert Group (LEG), to report on progress in the implementation of the LEG programme of work.

At the outset, Mr. Minister, I would like to welcome your presence in the Chair at this important meeting.

(a) Election of a Vice Chair

Get me a chair, please.

If the Chair or Vice Chair ceases to be able to carry out his or her functions, or ceases to be a member, a new Chair or Vice Chair shall be elected for the remainder of the term.

The Chair of the Committee of the Whole will be announced at the plenary meeting on Tuesday, 7 February 2006.

The Chair, assisted by the secretariat, shall draft the provisional agenda of each meeting of the Executive Board and transmit a copy of such provisional agenda, agreed upon by the Executive Board at its previous meeting, to all those invited to the meeting.

The Chair shall convene and give notice of the date of each meeting of the Executive Board not less than eight weeks prior to the date of such meeting.

Whenever, in the judgment of the Chair, a decision must be taken by the Executive Board which cannot be postponed until the next meeting of the Executive Board, the Chair shall transmit to each member a proposed decision, with an invitation to approve the decision by consensus.

At its fifth meeting the group elected Mr. Laavasa Malua (Samoa) as its Chair, Mr. Fred Onduri (Uganda) as Vice Chair, Ms. Madeleine Diouf (Senegal) as francophone rapporteur, and Mr. Puroshottam Kunwar (Nepal) as anglophone rapporteur.

It's a gas injected polymer chair.

The chair of the Chemical Review Committee reported to the Conference on the work of the first meeting of that Committee.

This chair they sold a billion dollars' worth of Aeron chairs by reinventing what it meant to sell a chair.

This is because the big countries are acting as if they own seats on the Executive Board that there is a German chair , a Spanish chair , an Italian chair , and so on.

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Chair

) At its 4th meeting, the SBI considered and adopted conclusions proposed by the Chair on the third review of the financial mechanism.