Pattern of Conferences

A/RES/31/140View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1977.

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107 documents · 1958–2025

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/234	Pattern of conferences	5,780	–
2024	A/RES/79/248	Pattern of conferences	6,725	–
2023	A/RES/78/245	Pattern of conferences	6,396	–
2023	A/RES/77/255	Pattern of conferences	6,274	–
2021	A/RES/76/237	Pattern of conferences	6,474	–

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8 subjects

Calendar of Meetings Conference and Meeting Services Financial Implications International Law Meeting Records Principles Racial Discrimination Subsidiary Bodies

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Takes note of the report of the Committee on Conferences established by General Assembly resolution 3351 (XXIX) ;58 2.

Approves the draft calendar of conferences and meetings far 1977 set farth in annex I to the report;

Takes note of the tentative calendar of conferences and meetings far 1978 set forth in annex II to the report;59 4.

Reaffirms the general principie that, in drawing up the schedule of conferences and meetings, United Nations bodies shall plan to meet at their respective established headquarters, with the following exceptions:

The Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme may, in accordance with its rules of procedure, hold one of its sessions at the United Nations Office at Geneva;

The sessions of the International Law Commission shall be held at Geneva;

The sessions of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law may be held, subject to the provision in section II, paragraph 6, of General Assembly resolution 2205 (XXI) of 17 December 1966, alternately at Headquarters in New York and at Geneva;

The regular summer session of the Economic (d) and Social Council may be held at Geneva provided that the closing date falls at least six weeks befare the opening of the regular session of the General Assembly;

The functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council, other than the Commission on Human Rights and the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, shall meet at their established headquarters unless a more rational pattern of the work programme can be achieved by holding their sessions at Geneva, that decision being without prejudice to any subsequent decision to hold them at Vienna;

59 In accordance with its resolution 3491 (XXX), the General Assembly will have before it at its thirty-second session for approval the draft calendars for 1978 and 1979 corresponding to the programme budget.

The regular sessions of the Economic and So- (f) cial Commission far Asia and the Pacific, the Economic Commission far Latin America, the Economic Commission far Africa and the Economic Commission far Western Asia, as well as meetings of their subsidiary bodies, may be held away from their headquarters when the commission concerned so decides, subject, in the case of regular sessions of the commissions, to the approval of the Economic and Social Council and of the General Assembly;

The International Civil Service Commission (g) shall hold its regular annual session at Headquarters and. if more than one session is required in any one ycar. it may accept an invitation from one of its participating organizations to hold its other session or sessions at the headquarters of that participating organization;

Decides that United Nations bodies may hold sessions away from thcir established headquarters when a Government issuing an invitation for a session to be held within its territory has agreed to defray, after consultation with the Secretary-General as to their naturc and possible extent, the actual additional costs directly or indircctly involved;

Requests the Committee on Conferences and the Secrctary-Gcncral to take account of the following principies in drawing up the draft calendar of confcrences and mectings:

The biennial calendar of conferences and mcet- (a) ings approved by thc General Asscmbly shall govern thc mcetings programme during the period concerned;

All Unitcd Nations meetings shall be carried (b) out within the resources allocatcd by the General Assembly for that purpose;

Between sessions of the General Assembly, dcpartures from the calendar may, in special or unusual circumstances, be approved by the Committee on Confercnccs, provided that changes affecting the subsequent year of the biennium shall be approved by the Assembly;

Subsidiary organs of thc General Assembly (d) shall not, without the approval of the Assembly, create new standing bodies or ad hoc sessional or intersessional bodies that rcquire additional resources, and other principal organs of the United Nations should makc similar decisions with rcgard to their respective suhsidiary bodies, if they have not already done so;

An adequate interval of time, to be determined by the body concerncd, shall be allowed between sessions of the same bodies to permit Member States to derive maximum benefit from the activities and to provide sufficient time for the preparation of future activities;

United Nations bodies shall meet at their respective established headquartcrs, subject to the cxceptions to this principie approved by the General Assembly;

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T akes note of the action taken by its subsidiary organs and by the Secretariat to apply the criteria establishcd by General Assembly resolution 3415 (XXX) of 8 Decem ber 197 5 and urges ali bodies to continue their efforts to rationalize their meeting records;

Reiterates its appeal to subsidiary bodies to consider the application to their subsidiary bodies of criterion 6, according to which such bodies should cease to be provided with meeting rccords of any kind;60 3.

Reaffirms that the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination and the International Law Commission should continue to receive records in both provisional and final form;

Requests the Secretary-General to specify, in the statement of financia! implications accompanying a draft resolution calling for the establishment of a new body, which conference services are to be provided;

Reaffirms its decision61 that statements may be reproduced in extenso only if they serve as bases for discussion and after statements of financia! implications have been presentcd to the bodies requesting them.

58 fbid., Supplement No. 32 (A/31/32).

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