The General Assembly today authorized nearly $5.6 billion to keep 14 peacekeeping missions, 2 service centres and support staff at Headquarters operating through June 2025, adopting 20 resolutions and 1 decision forwarded by its Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary).
As more States recognize the State of Palestine and agree that it should become a full member at the United Nations, it is crucial to keep an eye on the political horizon, even amidst the current violence, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People heard today.
Amid widespread concerns about a dysfunctional Council unable to discharge its responsibility to maintain peace, the General Assembly took up that body’s 2023 report today, and called for more transparent and analytical reports that go beyond meeting records.
The General Assembly today urged accelerated action to reduce deaths and injuries from traffic accidents worldwide by implementing the Global Plan for the Decade of Action for Road Safety 2021–2030.
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) today approved nearly $5.6 billion to keep 14 peacekeeping missions, two service centres and support staff at Headquarters in operation for the coming year, as it concluded its second resumed session.
The global response to HIV/AIDS has been “a success story”, senior United Nations officials told the General Assembly today, as delegates spotlighted significant gains in the fight against the widespread disease as well as the remaining challenges to ending the public health scare by 2030.
Adopting a decision and amendment concerning the participation of non-governmental organizations in the forthcoming financing for development conference, the General Assembly today also held a debate on unilateral economic coercive measures, with some speakers underscoring that they hinder development, deepen divisions and increase trade inequities, while others upheld them as a tool for maintenance of peace.
Underlining the need to raise awareness of the value of diversity of civilizations and promote dialogue, mutual respect, tolerance and global solidarity, the General Assembly today adopted by consensus a resolution declaring 10 June the International Day for Dialogue among Civilizations.
In a series of elections today, delegates in the General Assembly chose its President for the seventy-ninth session, the Bureaus of the six Main Committees, as well the five non-permanent members of the Security Council for the next two-year term.
The Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) today approved a draft resolution forwarding the latest report of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations for adoption by the General Assembly.
