Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Related Matters

A/DEC/70/559View PDF

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A Decision of the General Assembly, under agenda item 121 Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council, published in 2016.

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16 versions · 2001–2016

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2016	A/DEC/70/559	Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters	350	—
2016	A/DEC/69/560	Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters	—	—
2015	A/DEC/68/557	Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters	341	87%Compare
2013	A/DEC/67/561	Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters	304	86%Compare
2012	A/DEC/66/566	Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters	318	69%Compare

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At its 113th plenary meeting, on 27 July 2016, the General Assembly, on the proposal of its President:

(a) Decided to reaffirm the central role of the General Assembly concerning the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council;

(b) Also decided to immediately continue intergovernmental negotiations on Security Council reform in informal plenary of the General Assembly at its seventy-first session, as mandated by Assembly decisions 62/557 of

21 A/70/983.

22 A/70/859/Add.1.

23 A/70/983.

15 September 2008, 63/565 B of 14 September 2009, 64/568 of 13 September 2010, 65/554 of 12 September 2011, 66/566 of 13 September 2012, 67/561 of 29 August 2013, 68/557 of 8 September 2014 and 69/560 of 14 September 2015, building on the informal meetings held during its seventieth session, as well as the positions of and proposals made by Member States, reflected in the text and its annex circulated on 31 July 2015, and using the elements of convergence circulated on 12 July 2016 to help to inform its future work, while welcoming the active engagement, initiatives and intensive efforts of the President of the General Assembly, and noting with appreciation the active role and concrete efforts of the Chair undertaken in a consultative manner with a view to an early comprehensive reform of the Security Council;

(c) Further decided to convene the Open-ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters related to the Security Council during the seventy-first session of the General Assembly, if Member States so decide;

(d) Decided to include in the agenda of the seventy-first session of the General Assembly the item entitled “Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council”.

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