The Executive Board has a rotating membership of 58 Member States who meet twice a year to oversee the implementation of the Programme and Budget of UNESCO, as adopted by the General Conference.

UNESCO: THEMES

Instead, the total number of commissioners will be capped at a rotating two-thirds of the number of member states.

ECONOMIST: The small print of a notably complicated document

Iceland could then become a formal candidate in late 2009, when Sweden (another ally) holds the rotating EU presidency, and a full EU member by 2011.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Now they would like to see a friendly successor, perhaps Vasil Tupurkovski, the last Macedonian member of old Yugoslavia's rotating presidency, who has lived in America.

ECONOMIST: Macedonia: Next domino? | The

The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, and other Bush administration officials have been working hard behind the scenes to lobby Latin American countries and other U.N. member states to choose Guatemala instead of Venezuela to fill a rotating seat on the Security Council.

NPR: U.S. Hopes to Block Venezuela from Security Council