Participation in Formal Plenary Meetings of the General Assembly at Its 76th Session

A/DEC/76/503View PDF

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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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2 documents · 2021

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2021	A/DEC/76/503	Participation in formal plenary meetings of the General Assembly at its 76th session	264	–
2021	A/DEC/75/558	Participation in formal plenary meetings of the General Assembly at its 75th session	231	–

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At its 2nd plenary meeting, on 17 September 2021, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the General Committee as set forth in its first report,25 noting with concern the situation regarding the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and noting that there were certain limitations in place on access to the United Nations premises as precautionary measures aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19, including quarantine requirements:

(a) Decided, without setting a precedent for future plenary meetings of the General Assembly, that, during the seventy-sixth session, where quarantine requirements or travel restrictions were in place, those who were invited by the Assembly either to make a statement at a plenary meeting or to present a report, and were not a representative of a Member State or an observer delegation, might each submit a pre-recorded statement, which would be played in the General Assembly Hall after the introduction by the President of the General Assembly at the plenary meetings concerned;

(b) Also decided that, in addition to the verbatim records of the plenary meetings, the President of the General Assembly would circulate, as a document of the Assembly, a compilation document of the statements delivered by

_______________ 22 A/76/316. 23 A/76/316/Add.1 and A/76/316/Add.2. 24 A/76/250, para. 36. 25 A/76/250, para. 42.

means of pre-recorded statements at each of the formal plenary meetings, which would be attached to the verbatim records of the meeting.

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