Amendment to Rule 1 of the Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 61 Strengthening of the United Nations System, published in 2000.

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Decides to amend rule 1 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly to read: “The General Assembly shall meet every year in regular session commencing on the Tuesday following the second Monday in September”;

Also decides that this amendment shall take effect as from 2001 and that, therefore, for that year, the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly shall close on Monday, 10 September 2001, and the fifty-sixth session of the Assembly shall open on Tuesday, 11 September 2001.

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