Address by the President of the General Assembly

9 October 2023

• Address by the President of the General Assembly

Organization of work

• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))
• Tunisia (on behalf of the African Group)
• Switzerland (on behalf of Switzerland and Liechtenstein)
• Australia (on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (CANZ))
• Representative of the European Union
• Oman (on behalf of Gulf Cooperation Council)
• United States of America
• Mexico
• Israel
• Thailand
• China (English)
• Bangladesh
• United Kingdom of Great Briatin and Northern Ireland
• Norway
• Kuwait
• Russian Federation
• Japan
• Uruguay
• United Arab Emirates (English)
• Iraq
• Philippines
• Republic of Korea

Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors

• Intorductory remarks Director of External Audit (China) and Chair of the Audit Operations Committee, Board of Auditors
• Introductory remarks Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ (English)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• China

Programme budget for 2023: Capital master plan

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ (French)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Programme budget for 2023: United Nations Office for Partnerships

• Introductory remarks Executive Director UNOP
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Administrative expenses of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund

• Introductory remarks Chair UNJSPB
• Introductory remarks Director, PPBD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Chair AOC BOA
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ (French)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Russian Federation

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Assessment of the workplace at United Nations Headquarters

• Introductory remarks Director DA DOS
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (French)
• Introductory remarks USG OIOS
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Capital investment planning

• Introductory remarks Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ (French)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Construction and property management: Addressing the deteriorating conditions and limited capacity of the conference services facilities at the United Nations Office at Nairobi

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (French)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Ethiopia (on behalf of the Africa Group)
• Kenya

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Construction and property management: Progress in the renovation of Africa Hall at the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa; Tenth annual progress report on the strategic heritage plan of the United Nations Office at Geneva

• Introductory remarks Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ (English)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Ethiopia (on behalf of the African Group)
• Switzerland

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Construction and property management: Seismic mitigation retrofit and life-cycle replacements project at the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific premises in Bangkok; Progress on the renovation of the North Building at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago; Progress on the replacement of office blocks A–J at the United Nations Office at Nairobi

• Introductory remarks Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (French)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeas Asian Nations (ASEAN))
• Chile (on behalf of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Venezuela) (Spanish)
• Ethiopia (on behalf of the African Group)
• Thailand

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Contingency fund: consolidated statement of programme budget implications and revised estimates

• Introductory remarks Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ (English)

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Enterprise resource planning project – Umoja

• Introductory remarks Director ERPSD DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ (English)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Financial performance report on the programme budget for 2022

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (French)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Improving service delivery in the United Nations

• Introductory remarks USG DOS
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ (French)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Programme budget implications (PBIs): Open-ended working group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies 2021–2025 established pursuant to General Assembly resolution 75/240; Nuclear disarmament verification; Addressing the legacy of nuclear weapons: providing victim assistance and environmental remediation to Member States affected by the use or testing of nuclear weapons; Further practical measures for the prevention of an arms race in outer space; Lethal autonomous weapons systems; Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security

• Introductory remarks Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ (French)
• Uruguay (on behalf of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic and Uruguay)

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Programme budget implications (PBIs): Strengthening and promoting the international treaty framework; A global call for concrete action for the elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action; Subregional Centre for Human Rights and Democracy in Central Africa; Promotion of inclusive and effective international tax cooperation at the United Nations; Follow-up to and implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States; Follow-up to the Fifth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries; Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development

• Introductory remarks Directory FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (English, French)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Ethiopia (on behalf of the African Group)

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Report on the use of the commitment authority and request for a subvention to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ (English)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Cambodia

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Report on the use of the commitment authority and request for a subvention to the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone (RSCSL)

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (French)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Ethiopia (on behalf of the African Group)
• Sierra Leone

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Revised estimates relating to the proposed programme budget for 2024 under section 29A, Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance, and section 29B, Department of Operational Support, related to addressing racism and promoting dignity for all in the United Nations Secretariat

• Introductory remarks USG DMSPC, Special Adviser for Addressing Racism in the Workplace
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (English)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Oman (on behalf of the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council)
• Nigeria (on behalf of the African Group)
• Philippines (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))
• Jamaica (on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM))
• Saudi Arabia

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Revised estimates relating to the proposed programme budget for 2024 under section 34, Safety and security

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ (English)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 2023 session

• Introductory remarks Director PPBD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ (French)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Revised estimates resulting from resolutions adopted by the General Assembly at its seventy-seventh session

• Introductory remarks Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (French)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• El Salvador

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council at its fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fourth regular sessions, and at its thirty-sixth special session in 2023

• Introductory remarks Director PPBD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ (English)
• Costa Rica (on behalf of Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic and Uruguay)
• Ethiopia (on behalf of the African Group)
• Bahamas
• Russian Federation
• Sudan

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Revised estimates relating to the proposed programme budget for 2024, Special political missions, Thematic cluster III: the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel, the United Nations Verification Mission in Colombia and the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti

• Introductory remarks Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (French)
• Jamaica (on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM))
• Colombia
• Haiti

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council, in particular on the overall resource estimates, thematic clusters I, II and III, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq

• Introductory remarks Director FOFD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (French)
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))
• Mexico (on behalf of the Group of Latin American countries)
• Ethiopia (on behalf of the African Group)
• China (English)
• Japan
• Bangladesh
• Syrian Arab Republic
• Cyprus
• Türkiye
• Iran (Islamic Republic of)
• Cuba
• Iraq
• Kuwait
• Representative of the European Union
• Cyprus

Proposed programme budget for 2024: Special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council: thematic cluster III

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (English, French)
• Colombia
• Haiti
• Sudan

Proposed programme budget for 2024, Financing of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals: revised estimates: effect of changes in rates of exchange and inflation

• Introductory remarks Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (French)

Programme planning, Proposed programme budget for 2024

• Introductory remarks Secretary-General (English, French)
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair CPC 63rd session
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Representative of the European Union
• Ethiopia (on behalf of the African Group)
• Swtizerland (on behalf of Switzerland and Liechtenstein)
• Philippines (on behalf of the Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))
• Costa Rica
• Japan
• Syrian Arab Republic
• Morocco
• Qatar
• Bangladesh
• Mexico
• Saudi Arabia
• Botswana
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Kenya
• Russian Federation
• El Salvador
• South Africa
• Angola
• China
• United States of America
• Lesotho
• Algeria
• Mozambique
• Türkiye
• Israel
• Myanmar

Improving the financial situation of the United Nations

• 4th Meeting, 9 October 2023

  • Presentation of the USG DMSPC (9 October 2023) on the Financial Situation of the UN
• 6th Meeting, 17 October 2023
  • Introductory remarks USG DMSPC
  • Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
  • Cuba
  • Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))
  • Ghana (on behalf of the African Group)
  • Japan
  • United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
  • Guyana
  • Morocco
  • China
  • Switzerland
  • Zambia
  • United States

Pattern of conferences

• Introductory remarks Chair COC
• Introductory remarks USG DGACM
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ (English)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Switzerland (on behalf of Switzerland and Liechtenstein)
• Qatar
• Russian Federation

Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations

• Introductory remarks Chair Committee on Contributions
• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Haiti
• Japan
• Russian Federation

Human resources management: Amendments to the Staff Regulations and Rules

• Introductory remarks ASG OHR DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (French)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• China

Report on the activities of the Ethics Office

• Introductory remarks Director Ethics Office
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Russian Federation

United Nations common system; Jurisdictional set-up of the United Nations common system

• Introductory remarks Chair ICSC
• Introductory remarks USG DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ (French)
• Statement of the President of FICSA
• Statement of the President of UNISERV
• Statement of the President of CCISUA
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• United Republic of Tanzania (on behalf of the Africa Group)
• Switzerland (on behalf of Switzerland and Liechtenstein)
• Mexico
• Japan
• China

Report on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services, Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations

• Introductory remarks USG OIOS
• Introductory remarks Chair IAAC
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Switzerland (on behalf of Switzerland and Liechtenstein)
• Russian Federation

Administration of justice at the United Nations

• Introductory remarks Executive Director, Office of Administration of Justice
• Introductory remarks United Nations Ombudsman
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (French)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Switzerland (on behalf of Switzerland and Liechtenstein)
• Israel
• Egypt

Financing of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

• Introductory remarks Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (French)
• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Ethiopia (on behalf of the African Group)
• Rwanda
• United Republic of Tanzania

Financing of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali

• Introductory remarks Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (French)

26th Formal meeting (resumed)

22 December 2023

Closing of the main part of the seventy-eighth session

• Cuba (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Ethiopia (on behalf of the African Group)
• Representative of the European Union
• Japan
• United States of America
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Indonesia
• China
• Viet Nam