The General Assembly adopted 51 resolutions and 1 decision recommended by its Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) today, covering a range of issues, from the rights children,. ], Monday, 13 February 2023 In December, when the decision on the IGF's future will be made, the conjunction of a transiting Sun, a natal Pluto, and a transiting Mercury will bring support to the IGF and ensure its future. For the latest updates on the order of speakers in the general debate, please click on theLiveListofSpeakers.Delegations are kindly reminded that, in accordance with established practice, each statement in the general debate should be limited to 15 minutes in order to accommodate speakers for each meeting in a timely fashion. There have been 11 emergency special sessions in the history of the United Nations.[23]. Secretariat. Delegations may wish to inform their capitals accordingly. Regular plenary sessions of the General Assembly in recent years have initially been scheduled to be held over the course of just three months; however, additional workloads have extended these sessions until just short of the next session. The General Assembly will also decide that the Credentials Committee of the seventy-seventh session should serve for the resumed eleventh emergency special session; and take note of the letter from the Secretary-General (A/ES-11/9) concerning Member States in arrears in the payment of financial contributions to the United Nations within the terms of Article 19 of the Charter. Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations: cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System [Item 127 (e)]: Draft resolution (A/77/L.22), Oceans and the law of the sea [item 72 (a) and (b)]: Commemoration of the fortieth anniversary of the adoption and opening for signature of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (resolution 76/72 and 77/5), Oceans and the law of the sea [item 72 (a) and (b)], (a) Reports of the Secretary-General (A/77/68), (A/77/155) and (A/77/331) 10 a.m. General Assembly Hall, Election of members of the Economic and Social Council [item 116 (b)], Plenary items scheduled for consideration during the resumed part of the session on a date to be determined, Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the political declarations on HIV/AIDS [item 10], 20012010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa [item 12]; New Partnership for Africas Development: progress in implementation and international support [item 62 (a) and (b)]: Report of the Secretary-General (A/77/XX): joint debate, Report of the Security Council [item 27], Report of the Peacebuilding Commission [28]; Peacebuilding and sustaining peace[item 58]; Report of the Secretary-General on the Peacebuilding Fund [item 114]: joint debate, The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict [item 29], Prevention of armed conflict [item 30 (a) and (b)], Protracted conflicts in the GUAM area and their implications for international peace, security and development [item 31], The situation in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine [item 59], Zone of peace, trust and cooperation of Central Asia [item 61], Request for an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legal consequences of the separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 [item 87], Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia residual functions [item 88], Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations [item 115]: Note by the Secretary- General (A/77/300), Appointment of members of the Board of the 10-Year Framework of Programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns [item 118 (i)], Commemoration of the abolition of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade [item 122]: commemorative meeting of the General Assembly to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Global health and foreign policy [Item 128]; Note by the Secretary- General (A/77/529); Report of the Secretary- General (A/77/527), Sexual exploitation and abuse: implementing a zero-tolerance policy [item 131], The responsibility to protect and the prevention of genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity [item 132], Impact of rapid technological change on the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals and targets [item 133], Report of the United Nations Youth Office [item 134], 1. 0:00. [7], During the 1946-1951 period the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic Social Council also conducted proceedings at the United Nations interim headquarters at Lake Success, New York. The situation in the Middle East [item 32]: Report of the Secretary- General (A/77/298); Draft resolution (A/77/L.27), 3. Center works with partners to provide technical support to governments in UN negotiations to protect the rights of women and girls. * Action on the following draft resolutions postponed to a later date to allow time for the review of their programme budget implications by the Fifth Committee: (a) Draft resolutionrecommended in A/77/441, along with draft amendment A/77/L.39, (b) Draft resolution II recommended in A/77/443/Add.2, (c) Draft resolutionrecommended in A/77/446/Add.2, High- Level Event of the General Assembly for the launch of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages(resolution 75/168), [Letters from the President of the General Assembly, dated 20 October 2022 and 23 November 2022 were sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers. General Assembly Holds Emergency Special Session on Ukraine 2 March 2022 Peace and Security The UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution on Wednesday demanding that Russia. The procedure for these elections can be found in Section 15 of the Rules of Procedure for the General Assembly. Comprising all Member States, it provides a unique forum for multilateral discussion of the full spectrum of. ], 4. This is determined by considering their relative shares of total gross national product, adjusted to take into account a number of factors, including their per capita incomes. Resolution 33/138 of the General Assembly states that "the composition of the various organs of the United Nations should be so constituted as to ensure their representative character." Business meeting to consider S.4428, to support the security of Taiwan and its right of self-determination, S.4653, to provide for certain authorities of the Department of State, and the nominations of Rolfe Michael Schiffer, of New York, to be an Assistant Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, Nathaniel Fick, of Maine, to be Ambassador at Large for . Culture of Peace [item 14]: Draft resolution (A/77/L.10), Debate on the item as a whole (continued) and action on the draft resolutions, 47th Plenary meeting The Israeli-Palestinian conflict dates back to the end of the nineteenth century. 3. 51. We will add more information to this page as it becomes available. The routinely scheduled portions of the sessions normally commence on "the Tuesday of the third week in September, counting from the first week that contains at least one working day", per the UN Rules of Procedure. The 77th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA 77) will open on Tuesday, 13 September 2022. [19], From the First to the Thirtieth General Assembly sessions, all General Assembly resolutions were numbered consecutively, with the resolution number followed by the session number in Roman numbers (for example, Resolution 1514 (XV), which was the 1514th numbered resolution adopted by the Assembly, and was adopted at the Fifteenth Regular Session (1960)). Sexual exploitation and abuse: implementing a zero-tolerance policy[Item 131]: Draft resolution (A/77/L.8), Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency [Item 89]: Notes by the Secretary-General (A/77/308 and A/77/308/Add.1); Draft resolution (A/77/L.9), Debate on the item and action on the draft resolution, Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency [Item 89]: Notes by the Secretary-General (A/77/308 and A/77/308/Add.1); Draft resolution (A/77/L.9), Debate on the item (continued) and action on the draft resolution, The situation in Afghanistan [item 34]: report of the Secretary-General (A/77/340); Draft resolution (A/77/L.11), Eleventh Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly (Resumed: 15th Plenary meeting) He pointed to the futility of resolutions concerning the Cuban embargo and the Middle East conflict as reasons for the UN model having failed. For the latest updates on the order of speakers in the general debate, please click on theLiveListofSpeakers. View of the empty General Assembly hall from its main aisle. Note by the Secretary-General (A/77/305) Letter dated 28 February 2014 from the Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2014/136) [item 5]: Draft resolution (A/ES-11/L.5) Macroeconomic policy questions [Item 16]: (a) Report of the Second Committee (A/77/441) The UN is the world's largest intergovernmental organization.. Until the late 1970s, the First Committee was the Political and Security Committee (POLISEC) and there was also a sufficient number of additional "political" matters that an additional, unnumbered main committee, called the Special Political Committee, also sat. [30], The General Assembly meets annually in a regular session that opens on the third Tuesday of September, and runs until the following September. [22], The General Assembly is entrusted in the United Nations Charter with electing members to various organs within the United Nations system. Because of their numbers, developing countries are often able to determine the agenda of the Assembly (using coordinating groups like the G77), the character of its debates, and the nature of its decisions. The opening debate begins the following Tuesday", United Nations, Queens: A Local History of the 1947 Israel-Palestine Partition, "U.N. 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