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Plenary Meetings and Events - 64th Session

This page lists plenary meetings, major thematic debates organized to establish broad international understanding on current substantive issues (see resolution 59/313, para. 2a), and thematic interactive debates, held on current issues of critical importance to the international community (see annex of resolution 60/286, para. 3).

Date Meetings / Events
15 September Opening of the 64th session
23-26 & 28-29 Sept. General debate
6 October

Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization [A/64/1(SUPP)] [107]

8 October

Joint debate:

Report of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda [A/64/206] [73] & Report of the International Criminal Tribunal the Former Yugoslavia [A/64/205] [74]

12 October

Fifteenth Anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development [48]
15 October

Election of non-permanent members of the Security Council [110 (a)]
19 October Sport for peace and development [45]
20 - 21 October

Joint debate:
New Partnership for Africa’s Development [63 (a) and (b)] & 2001-2010 - Decade to Roll Back Malaria [47]
26 October
Election of members of the Economic and Social Council [110 (b)]
27 October
Joint debate:
  1. Report of the Economic and Social Council [42] & Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic social and related fields [48]
  2. Global Road Safety Crisis [46]
28 October
  1. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba [19]
  2. The situation in Central America: Report of the Secretary-General (A/64/370) [20]
29 October
  1. Report of the International Criminal Court [A/64/356] [75]
  2. Report of the International Court of Justice [A/64/4] [72]
30 October

Promotion and protection of Human Rights [64-69]
2 November
  1. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency [85]
  2. Elections [111(a), (c), (e)]; [112 (f), (g), (h)]
  3. Anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade [116]

2 November

3 November

4 November

Report of the Human Rights Council [A/64/53] [64]
5 November International drug control [A/64/92][105]
9 November
  1. The situation in Afghanistan [17]
  2. Promotion of new and restored democracies [11]
  3. Culture of peace [49]
10 November

Culture of peace [49]

12 - 13 November
  1. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations [109]
  2. Joint debate:
    Report of the Security Council [A/64/2] [9] - Equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council [119]

12 November

13 November

16 November

Joint debate:

  1. Follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences [A/64/350] [48] - Millennium Summit [114] - Strengthening of the United Nations system [120] - United Nations reform [121]
  2. Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin[A/64/303] [43]
19 November

Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly [118]

20 November

1. Joint debate:
Report of the Peacebuilding Commission [10] - Peacebuilding Fund [108]

2. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly [118]

23-24 November

Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development and the 2008 Review Conference [52]
25 November

Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit [114]: meeting focused on development
30 November

Question of Palestine [16]
1 December
 The situation in the Middle East [15]
3 December
  1. Protracted conflicts in the GUAM area and their international implications [14]
  2. The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan [18]
4 December
 Oceans and the law of the sea [76, (a) and (b)]
7 December
 Joint debate:
Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations [70 (a) and (b)] - Assistance to survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda [71]
10 December
 End of the International Year of Human Rights Learning [69]
10 December
  1. Implementation of the UN resolutions [117]
  2. Global health and foreign policy [123]
11 December
 The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict [12]
14 December
  1. Election of members of the Peacebuilding Commission [111 (g)]
  2. Appointment of members of the Consultative Committee of the United Nations Development Fund for Women [112 (h)]
  3. Report of the Credentials Committee [3 (b)]

Source : Programme of work of the General Assembly - Schedule of plenary meetings A/INF/64/3 + Rev. 1

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