Sixth Committee (Legal) — 77th session
Observer status for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Secretariat in the General Assembly (Agenda item 172)
- Authority: decision 76/530
Documentation
- — 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: )
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 (). The Assembly has had the item on its agenda annually since the seventy-second session (decisions 72/526, 73/537, 74/526, 75/532 and 76/530).
At its seventy-sixth session, the Assembly decided to defer a decision on the item to its seventy-seventh session (decision 76/530).
Consideration at the seventy-seventh session
The Sixth Committee considered the item at its 35th meeting, on 10 November 2022 (see ). 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 ().
Archived videos and summaries of plenary meetings
(10 November 2022, 10:00am – 1:00pm) | Summary
Action taken by the Sixth Committee
At the 35th 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-eighth 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-eighth session of the Assembly.
Subsequent action taken by the General Assembly
- Report of the Sixth Committee:
- GA decision: 77/526 [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-eighth session (2023).
