Sixth Committee (Legal) — 76th session
Observer status for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Secretariat in the General Assembly (Agenda item 171)
- Authority: decision 75/532
Documentation
- A/72/194 — Note verbale dated 11 August 2017 from the Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
Summary of work
Background (source: A/76/100)
The item entitled “Observer status for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Secretariat in the General Assembly” was included in the agenda of the seventy-second session of the Assembly at the request of Uruguay (A/72/194). The Assembly has had the item on its agenda annually since the seventy-second session (decisions 72/526, 73/537, 74/526 and 75/532).
At its seventy-fifth session, the Assembly decided to defer a decision on the item to its seventy-sixth session (decision 75/532).
Consideration at the seventy-sixth session
The Sixth Committee considered the item at its 28th meeting, on 10 November 2021 (see A/C.6/76/SR.28). For its consideration of the item, the Committee had before it a note verbale dated 11 August 2017 from the Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General (A/72/194).
Archived videos and summaries of plenary meetings
28th meeting (10 November 2021, 3:00pm – 6:00pm) | Summary
Action taken by the Sixth Committee
At the 28th meeting, on 10 November, the Chair of the Committee announced that the Bureau had been informed that the delegation of Uruguay had requested that the Committee defer a decision on the request for observer status for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Secretariat in the General Assembly until the seventy-seventh session of the Assembly.
At the same meeting, the Committee adopted, without a vote, a draft decision under which the General Assembly would decide to defer a decision on the request for observer status for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Secretariat in the General Assembly to the seventy-seventh session of the Assembly.
Subsequent action taken by the General Assembly
- Report of the Sixth Committee: A/76/484
- GA decision: 76/530 [for the text of the decision, see the Sixth Committee's report to the General Assembly]
This agenda item will be considered at the seventy-seventh session (2022).
