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Registration & Participation

Arrangements for the high-level meetings and the general debate of the seventy-eighth session of the General Assembly, United Nations Headquarters, 18 to 26 September 2023, Information note for delegations (A/INF/78/4)

Letter from the PGA on the SDG Summit programme, List of Speakers, Concept Notes on the Leaders Dialogues and Logistics Note (8 September 2023)

Participation in the SDG Summit, which is convened at the level of Heads of State and Government, is limited.

Member States:

For Member States, inscription to the list of speakers for the Leaders’ Dialogues takes place through the e-deleGATE portal, until 31 August 2023 at 6:00 p.m. Further details are contained in the letter of the President of the General Assembly dated 17 July 2023.

Organizations and entities with General Assembly observer status:

In order to be assigned a seat with a nameplate in the meetings of the SDG Summit to take place in the General Assembly Hall and Trusteeship Council Chamber on Monday and Tuesday, 18- 19 September, representatives of organizations and entities with General Assembly observer status were requested to confirm their interest in attending by completing this form.

https://forms.office.com/e/MHQ7jjbNHe

The form closed at 12 p.m. on Friday, 8 September, after which no more submissions will be accepted.

Please note that due to limited seating at tables with nameplates, in particular in the Trusteeship Council Chamber, registration does not guarantee a seat with a nameplate. For those organizations without a nameplate, seating will be made available in the gallery.

All organizations picked up their assigned meeting-specific access cards from the UN Protocol and Liaison Service to be able to enter the General Assembly Hall and Trusteeship Council Chamber on 18 and 19 September.

(Pursuant to the modalities outlined in General Assembly resolution 67/290 on the format and organizational aspects of the high-level political forum on sustainable development, participating States and the European Union will have assigned seating and do not need to complete this form.)

UN specialized agencies and related organizations, funds, programmes and other entities

Registration of specialized agencies and related organizations was through Protocol and Liaison Service through eRegistration in the e-deleGATE portal. UN funds, programmes and other entities registered through an online form that will be transmitted to them by DESA. The deadline for registration of all UN entities was Friday, 8 September 2023.
 
Limited seating was available for the UN system entities registered for the SDG Summit, on a first-come, first served basis, with no more than one seat allocated per UN entity for the Trusteeship Council Chamber. The expressions of interest as well as the level of participation was considered when allocating seating. 

Major groups and other relevant stakeholders:

Representatives of the Major Groups and other Stakeholders (MGoS) may attend, subject to space constraints, with selection managed through the Coordination Mechanism of MGoS.

Registration was opened for authorized representatives from NGOs in consultative status with ECOSOC that are not affiliated with the Major Groups and other Stakeholders (MGoS) at: https://indico.un.org/event/1007471/. The deadline for registration was 9 September 2023 by 6:00 pm, Eastern Time.

Webcast:

The official meetings of the SDG Summit is available live on UN TV: http://webtv.un.org.