14 Sep 2021. Some 2,276 people have been killed since the coup and more than 15,000 arrested, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, a civil society group which has been monitoring the crackdown. For the schedule of meetings of the seventy-seventh session, use this link: Thursday 28 April 2022 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Conference Room 2, Friday 29 April 2022 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Conference Room 2, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 10:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Conference Room 2, Thursday, 5 May 2022, 10:00 a.m. - Economic and Social Council Chamber, Wednesday, 22 June 2022 10:00 a.m. Trusteeship Council Chamber, Thursday, 23 June 2022 10:00 a.m. General Assembly Hall, Thursday, 23 June 2022 3:00 p.m. General Assembly Hall. There should be consistency of representation based on the decision of the UN General Assembly, which should be the NUG as that would be in line with the will of the people.. The list of speakers for each meeting is built on this voluntarily agreed time limit., His Excellency Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, Republic of India, His Excellency Philip Joseph Pierre, Prime Minister and Minister for Finance, Economic Development and Youth Economy, Saint Lucia (pre-recorded), His Excellency Xavier Espot Zamora, Head of Government, Principality of Andorra (pre-recorded), His Excellency Cleopas Sipho Dlamini, Prime Minister, Kingdom of Eswatini (pre-recorded), His Excellency Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister, Minister for Finance, the Public Service, National Security, Legal Affairs and Grenadines Affairs, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (pre-recorded), His Excellency Ariel Henry, Prime Minister and Minister for Social Affairs and Labor, Republic of Haiti (pre-recorded), His Excellency Ismail Sabri Yaakob, Prime Minister, Malaysia (pre-recorded), His Excellency Phankham Viphavanh, Prime Minister, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic (pre-recorded), His Excellency Abdalla Adam Hamdok, Prime Minister, Republic of the Sudan (pre-recorded), His Excellency Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister, Kingdom of Cambodia (pre-recorded), His Excellency Josaia Voreqe Bainimarama, Prime Minister and Minister for iTaukei Affairs, Sugar Industry, and Foreign Affairs, Republic of Fiji (pre-recorded), His Excellency Lotay Tshering, Prime Minister, Kingdom of Bhutan (pre-recorded), His Excellency Bob Loughman,
Watch Here LIVE on YouTube - the United Nations General Assembly - General Debate: 21-25 & 27 September 202120 September 2021 - SDG Moment Event (AM. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Security Council [item 123], Informal meeting of the plenary to hear a briefing on the outcomes of the G20 Rome Leaders Summit, [Letters from the President of the General Assembly, dated 27 September 2021, 11 October 2021 and 19 November 2021, were sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers. The Committee chair, Ambassador Anna Karin Enestrm of Sweden, introduced its report. ], Informal informal consultations on the Progress Declaration of the International Migration Review Forum(closed). (a) Note by the Secretary-General (A/76/232); 3. The normally obscure UN Credentials Committee has also been in the spotlight, as questions were raised about who will represent Myanmar and Afghanistan in the General Assembly. ], Intergovernmental consultations on the political declaration for the 2022 United Nations Conference to support the implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14, A Letter from the President of the General Assembly, dated20 October 2021,was sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers. Delegations may wish to inform their capitals accordingly. Research Fellow, Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect, School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland, William Bourdon Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its fifty-fourth session: report of the Sixth Committee (A/76/471) [item 80], 3. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its seventy-second session: report of the Sixth Committee (A/76/473) [item 82], 5. ], 1. The 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) opened on Tuesday, 13 September 2022 at the UN Headquarters in New York, in the first in-person format since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Organization of work, adoption of agenda and allocation of items [item 7]; Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries [item 23 (a)]: draft decision (A/76/L.32) (item 7 to reallocate sub-item (a) of agenda item 23), 4. Sport for development and peace: building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal [item 12]: draft resolution (A/76/L.13), 2. ], 3rd thematic cluster on the theme Frameworks for a peaceful world promoting peace, international law and digital cooperation, Morning: Plenary segment
], Informal meeting of the plenary to hear a briefing by the President of the General Assembly on his priorities for the resumed part of the seventy-sixth session, [A letter from the President of the General Assembly, dated 5 January 2022, was sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers. The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict [item 34], Debate on the item [POSTPONED to a later date to be announced], 1. At the 76th General Assembly session next week, Myanmar will be a hot topic, as the Credentials Committee, made up of nine countries, must recommend an entity to take the country's U.N. seat. (b)
Moreover, a vote for the NUG would send a powerful signal to the people of Myanmar that UN member states have not forgotten their plight and stand with them. Election of members of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission [item 116 (c)], 4. Strengthening of the United Nations system [item 124], [Letters from the President of the General Assembly, dated 11 July 2022 and 18 July 2022 were sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers. ], 1. Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee. (c) Report on the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Whole on the Regular Process for Global Reporting and Assessment of the State of the Marine Environment, including Socioeconomic Aspects: Letter from the Co-Chairs (A/76/391)
https://t.co/o6bx4F2llh, ChinHumanRightsOrg (@ChinHumanRights) August 23, 2022. Sweden is the chair of the committee. Notes. Ep 62: Malta aims to preserve the legal status of countries facing rising sea levels. Myanmar is yet another story of the dismal dysfunction of the United Nations system.. Strengthening of the United Nations system [item 124]: Special report of the Security Council (A/76/853), Debate pursuant to resolution 76/262 (Continued), 3. The NUG was formed by politicians from the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) after army chief Min Aung Hlaing threw them out of office in February 2021 and jailed civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Statement by the President of the General Assembly, 3. A Credentials Committee is appointed at the beginning of each regular
Organization of work [item 7]: letters from the Chair of the Committee on Conferences (A/76/316/Add.1 and A/76/316/Add.2), [Letters from the President of the General Assembly, dated 27 September 2021, 29 September 2021, 8 October 2021 and 11 October 2021, were sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers. Fixing it requires bold leadership, brave choices, and sustained . A/76/251 - Agenda of the 76th session of the General Assembly (17 September 2021) A/BUR/76/1 - Organization of the 76th regular session of the General Assembly, adoption of the agenda and . Informal meeting (closed) of the plenary on the intergovernmental negotiations on the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and other matters related to the Council. If the credentials committee accepted the NUGs claims to be the legitimate government of Myanmar that would encourage other UN member states to extend recognition to the NUG as the official government of Myanmar, Phongsathorn said. ], Strengthening of the United Nations system [item 124], [Letters from the President of the General Assembly, dated11 July 2022 and 18 July 2022, were sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers. In order to assist the speakers with the timely delivery of their statements, a light mechanism will be installed at the rostrum. Sustainable development [item 20]: draft decisions (A/76/L.37,A/76/L.38), [Letters from the President of the General Assembly, dated 18 February 2022 and 22 February 2022,were sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers. ], Thematic dialogue on investment in road safety (resolution 75/308), [Letters from the President of the General Assembly, dated 27 September 2021, 6 October 2021, 11 October 2021, 29 November 2021 and 2 December 2021, were sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers. I have communicated the correspondences to the committee chair. ], 2. Conversely, accepting the NUGs credentials would send a powerful signal that the United Nations stands firmly in support of democracy and human rights, and efforts to resolve Myanmars crisis through peaceful dialogue. There have been serious inconsistencies in the handling of this issue by different UN bodies, with some allowing the military junta to represent Myanmar, while most have not allowed anyone to sit in Myanmars seat, the Myanmar Accountability Project said in a statement. ], Informal meeting of the plenary to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, [Letters from the President of the General Assembly, dated27 January 2022, and 14 April 2022 were sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers. The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution in June 2021 calling for a stop to the flow of weapons to Myanmar, for its military to respect the November 2020 election results and for the release of political detainees, including State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi. (b) Election of 18 members of the Economic and Social Council, (a) Report of the Secretary-General (A/75/798)
Legal experts say that is too little for the generals to be considered the representative of the Myanmar people. New Partnership for Africas Development: causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa [item 68 (b)]: draft resolution (A/76/L.60), 6. As, Young people and even children who grew up during the. Shahid further said that whenever the UN receives conflicting credentials communications, they are referred to the Committee. 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 [item 15]: Draft resolution (A/76/L.56), 4. So Im waiting for the chair to convene the meeting, he said, adding that the final decision on the credentials will be made by the General Assembly and then communicated to the administration whichever way the General Assembly decides. ], 3. 2. The question now facing U.N. officials comes just over a month after the Taliban . Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries [item 23 (a)]: report of the Second Committee (A/76/535/Add.1), 29. The matter of who represents the two countries at the UN has now gone to the Credentials Committee, currently being chaired by Sweden and with the US, China, Russia, Bahamas, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Bhutan and Chile as members. Date 2021. On September 15, the Secretary-General had also received a communication from the Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United Nations signed by Isaczai, containing the list of delegations of Afghanistan for the 76th session of the General Assembly. In the case of Libya, the Assembly accepted the credentials of the opposition National Transitional Council in 2011, even though it was not in effective control. ], High-level meeting of the General Assembly on the appraisal of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons (resolution 75/283), 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. Interactive panel discussion 1 on the theme "The Global Plan of Action and enduring trafficking issues and gaps including, inter alia, the trafficking of women and children, particularly girls, for the purpose of sexual exploitation", 4:30 - 6:00 p.m Interactive panel discussion 2 on the theme "The Global Plan of Action and emerging issues, such as trafficking in persons in the context of COVID-19, and the misuse of information and communication technologies to facilitate trafficking, including trafficking of children for the purpose of sexual exploitation on the Internet", [Letters from the President of the General Assembly, dated 27 September 2021, 11 October 2021, 26 October 2021, 29 October 2021, 1 November 2021 and 16 November 2021, were sent to all permanent representatives and permanent observers. The General Assembly is the main deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations. Heyzer, who says she has held extensive and regular consultations with Myanmars key stakeholders focusing on the NLD, NUG and ethnic armed groups since her appointment, declined an interview request from Al Jazeera but in a written statement clarified the nature of her visit. Security Council (A/76/853), Election of non-permanent members of the Security Council [item 115 (a)], 2. Organization of work, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items [item 7]; Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedom [item 74 (b)]: draft decision (A/76/L.69) (item 7 to reopen and reallocate item 74 (b): Promotion and protection of human rights: human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedom ), 3. without a vote. Combating sand and dust storms [item 20 (k)]: report of the Second Committee (A/76/533/Add.10), 22. Its Credentials Committee will debate whether to accept the credentials of the junta which seized power on 1 February, or those of the National Unity Government (NUG), made up of elected representatives whose parties won a landslide victory in elections last November.