General Debate of the 76th Session

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A Decision of the General Assembly, under agenda item 7 Organization of work, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items: reports of the General Committee, published in 2021.

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At its 91st plenary meeting, on 14 July 2021, the General Assembly, on the proposal of its President,54 noting with concern the ongoing situation regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic:

(a) Decided, without setting a precedent for future general debates, that each Member State, observer State and the European Union55 might submit a pre-recorded statement of its Head of State, Vice-President, Crown Prince or Princess, Head of Government, Minister or Vice-Minister, which would be played in the General Assembly Hall during the general debate of the Assembly at its seventy-sixth session, after introduction by their representative who was physically present in the Assembly Hall;

(b) Also decided that, in addition to the verbatim records of the general debate, the President of the General Assembly would circulate as a document of the Assembly a compilation document of the statements delivered by means of pre-recorded statements submitted to the President no later than the day on which the pre-recorded statement was played in the Assembly Hall, and that such pre-recorded statements would be attached to the verbatim records of the meetings.

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