General Debate of the 77th Session of the General Assembly in September 2022

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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 2022.

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At its 3rd plenary meeting, on 16 September 2022, the General Assembly, on the proposal of Albania, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, the Dominican Republic, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Marshall Islands, Micronesia (Federated States of), Monaco, Montenegro, the Netherlands, New Zealand, North Macedonia, Norway, Palau, Poland, Portugal, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of Moldova, Romania, San Marino, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye, Ukraine, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America,38 by a recorded vote of 101 to 7, with 19 abstentions,39 noting with concern the situations in which leaders of peace-loving sovereign States, Members of the United Nations, could not participate in person in the meetings of the General Assembly for reasons beyond their control owing to ongoing foreign invasion, aggression, military hostilities that did not allow safe departure from and return to their countries, or the need to discharge their national defence and security duties and functions, and recalling, inter alia, its resolution ES-11/1 of 2 March 2022:

_______________ 30 A/77/250. 31 A/77/251. 32 A/77/252. 33 A/77/250, para. 90. 34 Ibid., para. 91. 35 A/77/L.37. 36 A/77/L.29. 37 A/77/L.42. 38 A/77/L.1; see also A/77/PV.3. 39 See A/77/PV.3.

(a) Decided, without setting a precedent for future general debates and mandated high-level meetings planned for future high-level weeks, that Ukraine might submit a pre-recorded statement of its Head of State, which would be played in the General Assembly Hall during the general debate of the Assembly at its seventy-seventh session after introduction by its representative who was physically present in the Assembly Hall;

(b) Also decided that, in addition to the verbatim records of the general debate of the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session, the President of the General Assembly would circulate as a document of the Assembly the statement delivered by the Head of State by means of a pre-recorded statement during the general debate and submitted to the President no later than the day on which the pre-recorded statement was played in the Assembly Hall;

(c) Further decided that these procedures shall apply only to the meetings of the general debate of the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session.

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