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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).

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DATE MEETING / EVENT [AGENDA ITEM NUMBER]
15 September
1st Plenary 		Opening of the 64th session
18 September
2nd Plenary 		Organization of work, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items

23-26 & 28-29 September

3rd - 13th Plenary

General debate
6 October
14th and 15th Plenary

Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization [107]
8 October
16th Plenary

JOINT DEBATE:
12 - 13 October
17th - 19th Plenaries

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

12 October

13 October
15 October
20th Plenary

Election of non-permanent members of the Security Council [110 (a)]
19 October
21st Plenary 		Sport for peace and development [45]
20 - 21 October
22nd - 24th Plenary

JOINT DEBATE:
26 October
25th Plenary
Election of 18 members of the Economic and Social Council [110 (b)]
27 October
26th Plenary
  1. Organization of work and pattern of conferences
  2. JOINT DEBATE:
28 October
27th and 28th Plenaries
  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 [20]
29 October
29th and 30th Plenaries
  1. International Criminal Court [75]
  2. International Court of Justice [72]
30 October
31st Plenary

Promotion and protection of Human Rights [64-69]
2 - 3 November
33rd - 35th Plenaries
  1. 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
36th and 37th Plenaries

Human Rights Council [64]
5 November
38th and 39th Plenaries		 International drug control [105]
9 November
40th and 41st Plenaries
  1. The situation in Afghanistan [17]
  2. Promotion of new and restored democracies [11]
  3. Culture of peace [49]
10 November
42nd Plenary

Culture of peace [49]
12 - 13 November
43rd - 46th Plenaries
  1. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations [109]
  2. JOINT DEBATE:

12 November

13 November

16 November
47th Plenary
  1. JOINT DEBATE:
  2. Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin [43]
19 November
48th Plenary

Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly [118]
20 November
49th and 50th Plenary
  1. JOINT DEBATE:
  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]

 

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30 November
51st Plenary

Question of Palestine [16]
1 December
52nd and 53rd Plenaries
 The situation in the Middle East [15]
2 December
54th and 55th Plenaries

1. Question of Palestine [16]

2. The situation in the Middle East [15]

3. Reduction of military budgets [86]
4 December
56th - 58th Plenaries
Oceans and the law of the sea [76 (a) and (b)]
7 December
59th and 60th Plenaries
  1. Protection of global climate for present and future generations [53 (d)]
  2. JOINT DEBATE:
10 December
61st Plenary
End of the International Year of Human Rights Learning [69]
10 December
62nd Plenary
  1. Reports of the Fourth Committee on international peace and security [27-39] and organizational and administrative matters [118, 133]
  2. Financing of the activities arising from Security Council resolution 1863 (2009) [163]
  3. Global health and foreign policy [123]
  4. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations [117]
11 December
63rd Plenary
  1. The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict [12]
  2. Assistance to the Palestinian people [70 (b)]
  3. The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy [115]
16 December
64th Plenary
  1. Justice and International Law [78-84]
  2. Measures to eliminate international terrorism [106]
  3. Organizational and administrative matters [115, 118, 133, 142, 164, 165, 166, 168, 169, 171]
  4. Assistance to the Palestinian people [70 (b)]
  5. Report of the Credentials Committee [3 (b)]
18 December
65th Plenary
  1. Questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions [41]
  2. Social development [61]
  3. Advancement of women [62]
  4. Promotion of human rights [64-68]
  5. Drug control and crime prevention [104-105]
  6. Organizational and administrative matters [118, 124, 133]
21 December
66th Plenary
  1. Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources [40]
  2. Economic growth and sustainable development [48, 50-60, 170]
  3. Organizational and administrative matters [114, 118, 133]
22 December
67th Plenary
  1. Assistance to survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, particularly orphans, widows and victims of sexual violence [71]
  2. Organizational and administrative matters [111 (g), 112 (h), 129, 132-133, 135, 140, 142, 154]
23 December
68th Plenary
  1. Organizational and administrative matters [115, 127-128, 130-132, 136, 143-145]
  2. Economic growth and sustainable development [53 (a), 55 (b)]
  3. Human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives [69 (c)]
11 January
Informal Plenary

Work of the Organization in 2010
13 January
Urgent Informal Plenary

Situation in Haiti
22 January
69th Plenary 		Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations [70(a)]
8 February
70th Plenary
  1. Sport for peace and development [45]
  2. Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa [63(b)]
23 February
71st Plenary
  1. Culture of peace [49]
  2. Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development and the preparation of the 2008 Review Conference [52]
  3. Appointment of three ad litem judges of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal [112 (j)]
26 February
72nd Plenary
  1. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations [136]
  2. Report of the Human Rights Council [64]
2 March
73rd Plenary

Advancement of women [62]
2 March
74th Plenary
  1. Global road safety crisis [46]
  2. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Collective Security Treaty Organization [125]
  3. Sixty-fifth anniversary of the end of the Second World War [126]
22 March High-level interactive dialogue on the implementation of the International Decade for Action, “Water for Life”, 2005-2015, and the realization of the internationally agreed water-related goals
23 - 24 March High-level Dialogue on Financing for Development

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

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