Address by the President of the General Assembly

22 October 2021

• Address by the President of the General Assembly

Organization of Work

• Guinea (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Switzerland (also on behalf of Liechtenstein)
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))
• Representative of the European Union
• Ghana (on behalf of the African Group)
• Israel
• United Kingdom
• Japan
• China
• Philippines
• Mexico
• Armenia
• Mongolia
• Bangladesh
• United States
• Norway
• Republic of Korea
• South Africa
• Jamaica
• Peru
• Russian Federation

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

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

Programme budget for 2021: Nineteenth annual progress report on the implementation of the capital master plan

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

Programme budget for 2021: United Nations Office for Partnerships

• Introductory remarks Executive Director UNOP

Programme planning, Proposed programme budget for 2022

• Introductory remarks Secretary-General
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Introductory remarks Chair CPC 61st session
• Introductory remarks USG OIOS
• Introductory remarks Joint Inspection Unit
• Introductory remarks CEB
• Guinea (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))
• Australia (also on behalf of Canada and New Zealand (CANZ))
• Ghana (on behalf of the African Group)
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Japan
• United States
• Trinidad and Tobago
• Egypt
• Qatar
• Mexico
• Guyana
• Bangladesh
• Brazil
• Saudi Arabia
• Philippines
• Syrian Arab Republic
• Morocco
• China
• Zimbabwe
• Switzerland
• Russian Federation
• Botswana
• Republic of Korea

Proposed programme budget for 2022: Administrative expenses of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund

• Introductory remarks Chair UNJSPB
• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Director of External Audit (Chile) and Chair of the Audit Operations Committee, Board of Auditors
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Proposed programme budget for 2022: Conditions of service and compensation for officials, other than Secretariat officials, serving the General Assembly: full-time members of the International Civil Service Commission and the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions

• Introductory remarks Director ALD OHR DMSPC
• Guinea (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Lesotho (on behalf of the African Group)

Proposed programme budget for 2022: Construction and property management: Addressing the deteriorating conditions and limited capacity of the conference services facilities at the United Nations Office at Nairobi

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

Proposed programme budget for 2022: Construction and property management: Eighth annual progress report on the strategic heritage plan of the United Nations Office at Geneva

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

Proposed programme budget for 2022: 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
• Guinea (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Cameroon (on behalf of the African Group)
• Ethiopia

Proposed programme budget for 2022: 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

Proposed programme budget for 2022: 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
• Guinea (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Cameroon (on behalf of the African Group)
• Kenya

Proposed programme budget for 2022: 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
• Guinea (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 2022: 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 2022: Final progress report on the enterprise resource planning project (Umoja)

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

Proposed programme budget for 2022: Financial performance report on the programme budget for 2020

• Introductory remarks Director PPBD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Proposed programme budget for 2022: Programme budget implications (PBIs): The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects; Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus; Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus; Further practical measures for the prevention of an arms race in outer space; Promoting international cooperation on peaceful uses in the context of international security; Countering disinformation for the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms; 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; Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic; Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its fifty-fourth session

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Proposed programme budget for 2022: Report on the use of the 2021 subvention and request for a subvention to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon for 2022

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Proposed programme budget for 2022: Report on the use of the commitment authority and request for a subvention to the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone (RSCSL)

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Guinea (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Cameroon (on behalf of the African Group)
  
• Sierra Leone

Proposed programme budget for 2022: Report on the use of the commitment authority and request for a subvention to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)

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

Proposed programme budget for 2022: Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 2021 session

• Introductory remarks Director PPBD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ
• Guinea (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Mexico

Proposed programme budget for 2022: Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its seventy-fifth session

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Proposed programme budget for 2022: Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council at its forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-eighth regular sessions, and at its thirtieth, thirty-first and thirty-second special sessions

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Belarus
• Sri Lanka

Proposed programme budget for 2022: 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, and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))
• Cameroon (on behalf of the African Group)
• Representative of the European Union
• Peru (on behalf of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Paraguay, Panama and Uruguay)
• United States
• Mexico
• Iraq
• Colombia
• Bangladesh
• Cuba
• United Kingdom
• Egypt
• Japan
• China
• Cyprus
• Brazil

Proposed programme budget for 2022: Special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council: United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Proposed programme budget for 2022: Special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council: Thematic cluster III: regional offices, offices in support of political processes and other missions: Revised estimates relating to the proposed programme budget for 2022 under section 3, Political affairs, and section 36, Staff assessment

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Improving the financial situation of the United Nations

• Presentation of the USG DMSPC (19 October 2021) on the Financial Situation of the UN

6th Meeting, 28 October 2021

• Introductory remarks USG DMSPC
• Guinea (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))
• New Zealand (also on behalf of Canada and Australia (CANZ))
• Switzerland (also on behalf of Liechtenstein)
• Kenya (on behalf of the African Group)
• United States
• Guyana
• Japan
• Russian Federation
• Namibia
• Lesotho
• China
• Malaysia
• Morocco
• United Kingdom
• Philippines
• Kuwait
• Cuba

Pattern of conferences

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

Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations, Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of United Nations peacekeeping operations

1st Meeting, 4 October 2021

• Introductory remarks Chair Committee on Contributions
• Introductory remarks ASG Contoller
• Guinea (on behald of the Group of 77 and China)

2nd Meeting, 5 October 2021

• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))
• Representative of the European Union
• Saint Kitts and Nevis (on behalf of the Caribbean Community)
• India (also on behalf of Brazil, Russian Federation, China and South Africa (BRICS))
• Cameroon (on behalf of the African Group)
• United Kingdom
• Japan
• United States
• Qatar
• Egypt
• Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
• Republic of Korea
• Mexico
• Pakistan

United Nations common system

• Introductory remarks Chair ICSC
• Introductory remarks Chief of Service PPBD DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ
• Statement of the President of FICSA
• Statement of the President of CCISUA
• Statement of the President of UNISERV
• Guinea (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Switzerland (also on behalf of Liechtenstein)
• Representative of the European Union
• Uganda (on behalf of the African Group)
• United States
• Japan
• Mexico
• United Kingdom
• Russian Federation
• Bangladesh
• Republic of Korea

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 USG OIOS
• Introductory remarks Chair IAAC
• Russian Federation

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
• Guinea (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Switzerland (also on behalf of Liechtenstein)

Financing of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Financing peacekeeping operations

UNAMID

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ

Closing of the main part of the seventy-sixth session

• Guinea (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Representative of the European Union
• Cameroon (on behalf of the African Group)
• United States
• Egypt
• Mexico
• Japan
• Brazil
• Bahamas
• Indonesia
• Botswana
• China
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland