General Assembly of the United Nations

Plenary meeting
Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields; and Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit: draft resolution (A/70/L.60) [items 15 and 116]

Second plenary meeting:
Organization of work, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items: first report of the General Committee [7]

1. Opening of the session by the President of the General Assembly
2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation
3. Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee
4. Organization of work of the seventieth regular session of the General Assembly: letter from the Chair of the Committee on Conferences (A/70/366)

2nd plenary meeting

Organization of work, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items: reports of the General Committee: First report of the General Committee (A/70/250) [7]

Second meeting of the General Committee:

Organization of work of the seventieth session of the General Assembly, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items [item 7]
(a) Request for the inclusion of an additional sub-item by the Secretary-General (A/70/231)
(b) Request for the inclusion of an additional item by the Permanent Representative of Jordan (A/70/232)

Meeting of the General Assembly to commemorate the “International Day for the Total elimination of Nuclear Weapons” (Letter by the President dated 17 September 2015)

High-level thematic debate of the General Assembly on the theme “Maintenance of international peace and security” (resolution 69/316 (to be issued); Letter by the President dated 21 September 2015)

1. Report of the Economic and Social Council [9]: A/70/3; note by the Secretary-General (A/70/140); Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields [15]: joint debate

2. Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit [116]: specific meeting focused on development (resolution 60/265)

Friday, 23 October p.m.
Trusteeship Council Chamber

Sport for development and peace: building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal [12] *

*Before proceeding to the consideration of the item, the GA will pay tribute following the demise of H.E. Ali Abdussalam Treki, President of the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly

1. Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination [113 (a)]: Note by the Secretary-General (A/70/355)

2. Election of eighteen members of the Human Rights Council [113 (e)]

1. Draft resolution entitled Strengthening of the United Nations system (A/70/L.6) [122]

2. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations [119]; Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly [120]: joint debate

1. Follow-up to the commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade [118]: reports of the Secretary-General (A/70/221 and A/70/136)

2. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations [119]; Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly [120]: joint debate (to exhaust the list of speakers from the meeting held on Tuesday, 3 November 2015)

1. Report of the International Court of Justice [75]: document A/70/4, report of the Secretary-General (A/70/327)

2. Report of the International Criminal Court [78]: note by the Secretary-General (A/70/350); reports of the Secretary-Genearl (A/70/317 and A/70/346)

Thursday, 5 November 11:30 a.m

1. Election of thirty members of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law [113 (b)]

2. Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences [114 (e)]: document A/70/107

3. Appointment of members of the Joint Inspection Unit [114 (f)]: document A/70/106

4. By-election for seats in the Economic and Social Council: document (A/70/426) [112(b)]

1. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations [111]

2. Report of the Security Council [30]: A/70/2

1. Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields [15]; Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit [116]; Strengthening of the United Nations system [122]; United Nations reform: measures and proposals [123]: joint debate
2. Appointment of members of the ACABQ [114(a)]: report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/359)
3. Appointment of members of the Committee on Contributions [114(b)]: report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/540)
4. Appointment of a member of the Board of Auditors [114(d)]: report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/541)
5. Programme planning [135]: report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/439)
6. Pattern of conferences [137]: report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/450

1. Appointment of the judges of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal [114 (g)]: document A/70/190

2. Appointment of the judges of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal [114 (h)]: document A/70/190

Thursday, 19 November p.m.;
Trusteeship Council Chamber

1. Question of Palestine [38]: documents A/70/35 and A/70/354

2. The situation in the Middle East [37]: reports of the Secretary-General (A/70/353 and A/70/354

1. Report of the Credentials Committee [3(b)] (A/70/573)

2. Culture of peace [16]: report of the Secretary-General (A/70/373)

1. Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin [10]: note by the Secretary-General (A/70/365)

2. The situation in Afghanistan [39]: draft resolution (A/70/L.23)

3. Report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) (Checklist of reports contained in document A/C.4/70/INF/3)

1. Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields: draft resolution A/70/L.7/Rev.1

2.  Confirmation of the appointment of members of the Investments Committee: report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/597) [item 114 (c)]

3.    Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United      Nations; Report on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services: report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/563) [items 132 and 142]

4.   Administration of justice at the United Nations: report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/593) [item 143]

5.  Financing of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali: report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/594) [item 160]

6-23. Reports of the Sixth Committee [80 to 86, 108, 167 to 174, 120 and 135]

Information and communications technologies for development [17] (two-day high-level meeting: overall review by the General Assembly of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society):
(a) report of the Secretary-General (A/70/63)

(b) draft rseolution (A/70/L.33)

1. Election of two members of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission [item 113 (d)]

2-18. Reports of the Third Committee [28, 29, 65, 67 to 72, 106, 107, 120 and 135.] (See A/C.3/70/INF/1)

19. Global health and foreign policy [item 125]
(a) Report of the Secretary-General (A/70/389)
(b) Draft resolution (A/70/L.32)

1. Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields; Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit: draft decision (A/70/L.34) [items 15 and 116]

2- 39. Reports of the Second Committee [17 to 27, 65, 120 and 135] (See document A/C.2/70/INF/1)

1. The impacts of the 2015/16 El Niño phenomenon: draft resolution (A/70/L.37) [item 15]
2. Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences: note by the SecretaryGeneral (A/70/107) [item 114 (e)]
3. International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994 [item 126] International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugosl avia since 1991 [item 127] International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals [item 128] (a) Letter from the Secretary-General (A/70/547) (b) Letter from the President of the Security Council (A/70/661)
(c) Draft resolution (A/70/L.39)
4. Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the political declarations on HIV/AIDS [item 11] (a) Draft resolution (A/70/L.38) (b) Report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/647 (to be issued))
5. Social development [item 28] (a) Report of the Third Committee (A/70/481) (b) Report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/643 (to be issued))
6. International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space [item 53] (a) Report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) (A/70/495) (b) Report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/637 (to be issued))
7. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples [item 63] (a) Report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) (A/70/505) (b) Report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/641 (to be issued)
8. Rights of indigenous peoples [item 69] (a) Report of the Third Committee (A/70/486) (b) Report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/644 (to be issued))
9. Human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives [item 72 (c)] (a) Report of the Third Committee (A/70/489/Add.3) (b) Reports of the Fifth Committee (A/70/638 and A/70/640 (to be issued))
10. Oceans and the law of the sea [item 79 (a)] (a) Draft resolution (A/70/L.22) (b) Report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/645 (to be issued))
11. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its sixty-seventh session [item 83] (a) Report of the Sixth Committee (A/70/509) (b) Report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/642 (to be issued))
12. Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security [item 92] (a) Report of the First Committee (A/70/455) (b) Report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/639 (to be issued)) 1
3. General and complete disarmament [item 97] (a) Report of the First Committee (A/70/460) (b) Amendment (A/70/L.26) to the draft decision contained in paragraph 95 under sub-item (h) (c) Report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/646 (to be issued))
14. Reports of the Fifth Committee

Monday, 11 January
10-11 a.m.
General Assembly Hall

Friday, 15 January
10 a.m.
Trusteeship Council Chamber

Tuesday, 19 January
10 a.m.
Trusteeship Council Chamber

Informal meeting of the plenary to hold a special thematic event on Building Synergy and Coherence in the implementation of the Istanbul Programme of Action in the context of the 2030 Development Agenda (Letters by the President dated 15 December 2015 and 26 January 2016)

For more information on the meeting, click here.

Delegations wishing to speak are kindly requested to inscribe with the list of speakers, General Assembly Affairs Branch (Ms. Antonina Poliakova, e-mail poliakova@un.org; tel. 1 (212) 963-5063).

Monday, 29 February
10 a.m.
Trusteeship Council Chamber

Monday, 7 March
3 p.m.
Trusteeship Council Chamber

The President of the General Assembly, pursuant to operative paragraph 10 of resolution 69/321 on the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly, will convene an informal meeting of the General Assembly to consider ways and means of further enhancing the cooperation between Permanent Missions and the United Nations Secretariat.

A letter from the President of the General Assembly, dated 23 February 2016, was sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers. Representatives from the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM), the Department of Management (DM), the Department of Public Information (DPI) and the Department of Safety and Security (DSS) will be present at the meeting. Delegations wishing to inscribe in the list of speakers are requested to send an e-mail to poliakova@un.org; with copy to muturi@un.org.

High-Level Thematic Debate on Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (Letters by the President dated 18 January 2016 and 4 November 2015)
For more information on the event, please click here. Delegations wishing to speak in the plenary segment are kindly requested to inscribe with the list of speakers, General Assembly Affairs Branch (Ms. Antonina Poliakova (e-mail poliakova@un.org; tel. 1 (212) 963-5063), copy to Ms. Mary Muturi (e-mail muturi@un.org)). Statements in the plenary segment should not exceed three minutes.

Friday, 3 June
10 a.m. and 3 p.m.
Trusteeship Council Chamber

Plenary meeting:

Protracted conflicts in the GUAM area and their implications for international peace,
security and development [item 35]
(a) Report of the Secretary-General (A/70/879)
(b) Draft resolution (A/70/L.51)

Informal consultations on the zero draft modalities resolution for the United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14 (Letter by the President dated 24 May 2016)

Informal meeting of the General Assembly to hear a briefing by the Secretary-General on the implementation of the recommendations outlined in the most recent reviews on United Nations peace operations, the peacebuilding architecture, and the implementation of United Nations Security Council resolution 1325 (2000) on women, peace and security (Letter by the President dated 1 June 2016)

Informal consultations on the high-level plenary meeting to address large movements of refugees and migrants (Letter by the President dated 31 May 2016)

Plenary meeting:
Election of the President of the General Assembly [4]
Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly [6]

Informal meeting of the plenary to hear a briefing by the Special Adviser for the Secretary-General on the Summit on Addressing Large Movements of Refugees and Migrants, Ms. Karen Abuzayd, the Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Mr. Volker Turk, and the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Mr. Wu Hongbo, on the “global compact on responsibility sharing for refugees” and the “global compact for safe, regular and orderly migration” outlined in the report of the Secretary-General entitled “In safety and dignity: addressing large movements of refugees and migrants" (A/70/59).
[A letter from the President of the General Assembly, dated 17 June 2016, was sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers.]

Informal consultations on the draft outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development (Habitat III)

[Letters from the Co-Chair, dated 13 and 16 June 2016, were sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers.]

Informal briefing organized by the President of the General Assembly, on the general preparations for this High-level Thematic Debate on Human Rights

[A letter from the President of the General Assembly, dated 24 June 2016, was sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers.]

Informal meeting of the plenary to hear a briefing by the Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, on the relationship between the United Nations and the International Organization for Migration

[A letter from the President of the General Assembly, dated 12 July 2016, was sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers.]

Informal meeting of the General Assembly on the observance of the annual Nelson Mandela International Day

[A letter from the President of the General Assembly, dated 15 June 2016, was sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers.]

Informal interactive multi-stakeholder hearing as part of the preparatory process towards the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants.

[A letter from the President of the General Assembly, dated 1 July 2016, was sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers.]

Plenary Meeting
1. Organization of work, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items: Sport for development and peace: building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal: Solemn appeal by the President of the General Assembly (A/70/983) [items 7 (to reopen agenda item 12) and 12]
2. Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields: draft resolution A/70/L.49/Rev.1 [item 15]
3. Groups of countries in special situations: follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries: draft resolution A/70/L.56 [item 23 (a)]
4. New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support: draft resolution A/70/L.48/Rev.1 [item 66 (a)]
5. Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization for Migration [item 175] (a) Note by the Secretary-General (A/70/976); (b) Draft resolution A/70/L.57
6. Global health and foreign policy: draft resolution A/70/L.58 [item 125]
7. Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter‑Parliamentary Union [item 124] (a) Report of the Secretary-General (A/70/917); (b) Draft resolution A/70/L.59.

Informal briefing on the strategic alignment of future sessions of the General Assembly with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

[A letter from the President of the General Assembly, dated 21 July 2016, was sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers.]