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General Assembly Adopts Landmark Resolutions, Holds Several Emergency Special Meetings, as Delegates Focus on Crises in Gaza, Sudan during First Trimester of Annual Session

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General Assembly Adopts Landmark Resolutions, Holds Several Emergency Special Meetings, as Delegates Focus on Crises in Gaza, Sudan during First Trimester of Annual Session

During the first three months of its seventy-ninth session, the General Assembly plenary adopted landmark resolutions, including one demanding Israel end its presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory within 12 months and another outlining a blueprint for future generations, while also holding sessions deploring the Security Council’s failure to address the crises in Gaza and Sudan.

General Assembly Adopts 10-Year Action Plan for Landlocked Developing Countries, Cybercrime Treaty, $3.72 Billion UN Budget for 2025

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General Assembly Adopts 10-Year Action Plan for Landlocked Developing Countries, Cybercrime Treaty, $3.72 Billion UN Budget for 2025

Concluding the main part of its seventy-ninth session today, the General Assembly adopted a 10-year action programme to address the unique challenges faced by landlocked developing countries, a historic cybercrime convention and the $3.72 billion United Nations budget for 2025.

Fifth Committee Approves $3.72 Billion Budget for 2025, Formula for Determining Member States’ Financial Contributions to United Nations, Concluding Main Part of Session

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Fifth Committee Approves $3.72 Billion Budget for 2025, Formula for Determining Member States’ Financial Contributions to United Nations, Concluding Main Part of Session

The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) wrapped up the main part of its seventy-ninth session today by sending the General Assembly a 2025 regular budget of $3.72 billion, about $100 million more than the $3.6 billion budget laid out by the Secretary-General in October. In a year of ongoing fiscal constraints, delegates completed the crucial step of approving new scales of assessment — the complex financial mechanism the Secretariat uses to establish the annual contributions of each Member State — for both the regular and peacekeeping budgets.

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