Dag Hammarskjöld Library at Uppsala University
Meeting Records
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The General Assembly annual session usually begins on the third Tuesday in September. The session is suspended in mid-December and is resumed as needed in the following year.
Some issues are considered only in plenary meetings, while others are allocated to one of the six main committees. Elections of members to the Councils are always held in plenary. When it concerns other issues the Assembly will decide if there are practical or political reasons for discussions in plenary.
Documentation
The meeting records carry the following document symbols:
A/ General Assembly |
-/PV Verbatim Records of meetings = proces-verbaux |
-/session number |
-/consecutive number |
A/55/PV.12 = the 12th meeting of the General Assembly 55th session |
It is possible to follow the debates of the General Assembly plenary meetings through the verbatim records in the series: Verbatim records of the plenary meetings of the General Assembly. A complete collection in print is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and the UN Libraries in New York and Geneva.
The full text of meeting records from 1984- is posted at the UN official homepage, section General Assembly, Documents, Meeting Records.
The press releases is an alternative source of information, giving a brief and concise - but unofficial - version of the meetings. The press releases are retrievable through the United Nations News Centre.
A programme of meetings and agenda is posted under the section UN in the News, UN Journal.
Databases and Indexes
The full text of plenary meetings in all official UN languages from 1993 is retrievable through the Official Document System of the United Nations (ODS).
The meeting records are registered in the UN online catalogue UNBISnet giving bibliographic information from 1979 and with links to full texts for the most recent years.