Address by the President of the General Assembly

28 October 2020

• Address by the President of the General Assembly

Organization of Work

1st Meeting, 5 October 2020

• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Mali (on behalf of the African Group)
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))
• Switzerland (also on behalf of Liechtenstein)
• Representative of the European Union
• United States
• China
• Republic of Korea
• Norway
• Philippines
• Jamaica
• Guatemala
• Botswana
• Japan
• United Kingdom
• Peru
• Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
• Cuba
• Mexico
• Russian Federation

Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors

• Intorductory remarks Director of External Audit (Germany) and Chair of the Audit Operations Committee, Board of Auditors
• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• United States

Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations: Shifting the management paradigm in the United Nations: budgetary procedures and practices

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Morocco

Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations: Shifting the management paradigm in the United Nations: funding model for the Department of Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance and the Department of Operational Support

• Introductory remarks USG DMSPC and USG DOS
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations: Shifting the management paradigm in the United Nations: review of progress in the implementation of management reform

• Introductory remarks Chef de Cabinet
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group fo 77 and China)
• Mali (on behalf of the African Group)
• Representative of the European Union
• Australia (also on behalf of Canada and New Zealand (CANZ))
• Mexico
• Japan
• United States
• United Kingdom
• China
• Morocco
• Botswana
• Israel
• Norway
• Switzerland

Programme budget for 2020: Eighteenth annual progress report on the implementation of the capital master plan

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Programme budget for 2020: Fourth annual progress report of the Board of Auditors on the implementation of the information and communications technology strategy

• Intorductory remarks Director of External Audit (Germany) and Chair of the Audit Operations Committee, Board of Auditors
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Programme budget for 2020: Review of the implementation of the peace and security reform

• Introductory remarks Chef de Cabinet
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Mali (on behalf of the African Group)
• Representative of the European Union
• China
• Japan
• Mexico
• Oman
• Botswana
• United States

Programme budget for 2020: United Nations Office for Partnerships

• Introductory remarks Executive Director UNOP
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Programme planning; Proposed programme budget for 2021

3rd Meeting, 12 October 2020

• Introductory remarks Secretary-General
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Cameroon (on behalf of the African Group)
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))
• Representative of the European Union
• Canada (also on behalf of Australia and New Zealand (CANZ))
• Switzerland (also on behalf of Liechtenstein)
• Cuba
• United States
• Myanmar
• China
• Qatar
• Japan
• United Kingdom
• Philippines
• Bangladesh
• Russian Federation
• Syrian Arab Republic
• Mexico

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Construction and property management: Progress in the renovation of Africa Hall at the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Mali (on behalf of the African Group)
• Ethiopia

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Construction and property management: Progress on the renovation of the North Building at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Chile

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Mexico

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Construction and property management: Progress on the replacement of office blocks A–J at the United Nations Office at Nairobi

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of Group of 77 and China)
• Mali (on behalf of the African Group)
• Kenya

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Construction and property management: Progress report on the implementation of a flexible workplace at United Nations Headquarters

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Construction and property management: Seismic mitigation retrofit and life-cycle replacements project at the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific premises in Bangkok

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))
• Thailand

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Construction and property management: Seventh annual progress report on the strategic heritage plan of the United Nations Office at Geneva

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Director of External Audit (Germany) and Chair of the Audit Operations Committee, Board of Auditors
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Switzerland
• Mexico
• United States

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Contingency fund: consolidated statement of programme budget implications and revised estimates; Revised estimates: effect of changes in rates of exchange and inflation for the regular budget and for the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Enterprise resource planning project - Umoja

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Director of External Audit (Germany) and Chair of the Audit Operations Committee, Board of Auditors
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• United States

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Request for a subvention to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Cambodia

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Request for a subvention to the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Report on the use of the commitment authority and request for a subvention to the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Mali (on behalf of the African Group)

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Revised estimates for the United Nations Monitoring Mechanism for the Syrian Arab Republic relating to the programme budget for 2021

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Revised estimates relating to the proposed programme budget for 2021 under section 11, United Nations support for the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, and section 36, Staff assessment

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 2020 session

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 2021 session

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its seventy-fourth session

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council at its forty-third, forty-fourth and forty-fifth sessions; Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council: revised estimates resulting from decision OS/14/101, adopted at the organizational session for the fifteenth cycle of the Human Rights Council; Proposed programme budget for 2021: Programme budget implications (PBIs): Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus; The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects; Developments in the field of information and telecommunication in the context of international security; Open-ended Working Group on Developments in the Field of Information and Telecommunications in the Context of International Security established pursuant to General Assembly resolution 73/27 of 5 December 2018; Group of Governmental Experts on Advancing Responsible State Behaviour in Cyberspace in the Context of International Security established pursuant to General Assembly resolution 73/266 of 22 December 2018; Situation of human righs of Rohingya Muslims and other minorities in Myanmar; A global call for concrete action for the elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance and the comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action; Oceans and the law of the sea

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Philippines

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council: Chapeau, Thematic clusters I, II, III, the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq

6th Meeting, 13 November 2020

• Introductory remarks Acting Director, FOFD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Mali (on behalf of the African Group)
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))
• Representative of the European Union
• Chile (also on behalf of Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay)
• Cuba
• Japan
• Mexico
• China
• Libya
• Brazil
• United Kingdom
• Colombia
• Syrian Arab Republic
• Turkey

7th Meeting, 18 November 2021

• Cyprus

Proposed programme budget for 2021: Special political missions: Thematic cluster III: regional offices, offices in support of political processes and other missions - United Nations Integrated Transition Assistance Mission in the Sudan

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Improving the financial situation of the United Nations

• Presentation of the USG DMSPC (8 October 2020) on the Financial Situation of the UN

4th Meeting, 16 October 2020

• Introductory remarks USG DMSPC
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Representative of the European Union
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))
• Cuba
• Morocco
• China
• Malaysia
• Japan
• United Kingdom
• United States

Pattern of conferences

• Introductory remarks Chair COC
• Introductory remarks USG DGACM
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Qatar

Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations

• Introductory remarks Chair Committee on Contributions
• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Representative of the European Union
• Japan
• United States

2nd Meeting, 7 October 2020

• Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
• Russian Federation
• Cuba
• Syrian Arab Republic
• China
• Iran (Islamic Republic of)

United Nations common system

• Introductory remarks Chair ICSC
• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Mali (on behalf of the African Group)
• Japan

Joint Inspection Unit report: "Review of Staff Exchange and Similar Inter-agency mobility measures in United Nations system organizations"

• Introductory remarks Inspector JIU
• Introductory remarks CEB

United Nations pension system

• Introductory remarks Chair UNJSPB
• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks the Director of External Audit (Germany) and Chair of the Audit Operations Committee, Board of Auditors
• Introductory remarks USG OIOS
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• United States

Administrative and budgetary coordination of the United Nations with the specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency

• Introductory remarks CEB

Report on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services; Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations

• Introductory remarks ASG OIOS
• Introductory remarks Chair IAAC
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• United States

Administration of justice at the United Nations

• Introductory remarks Executive Director, Office of Administration of Justice
• Introductory remarks United Nations Ombudsman
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• United States

Financing of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Mali (on behalf of the African Group)
• United Republic of Tanzania

Financing peacekeeping operations

UNAMID

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Closing of the main part of the seventy-fifth session

• Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
• Iran (Islamic Republic of)

• Guyana (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Mali (on behalf of the African Group)
• Representative of the European Union
• United States
• Botswana
• China
• Japan
• United Kingdom