Address by the President of the General Assembly

9 October 2025

• Address by the President of the General Assembly

Organization of work

• Iraq (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Representative of the European Union
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
• Angola (on behalf of the African Group)
• Kuwait (on behalf of Gulf Cooperative Council)
• Australia (on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (CANZ))
• Barbados (on behalf of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM))
• Dominican Republic
• Israel
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• United States of America
• Mexico
• China
• Kenya
• Japan
• United Arab Emirates (English)
• Brazil
• Panama
• Philippines
• Uruguay
• Oman
• El Salvador
• Russian Federation
• Antigua and Barbuda
• Botswana
• Haiti
• Norway

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

• Introductory remarks Director of External Audit (France) and Chair of the Audit Operations Committee, Board of Auditors
• Intorductory remarks Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ
• Iraq (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• China

Programme budget for 2025: Capital master plan

• Introductory remarks PPBD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ

Programme budget for 2025: United Nations Office for Partnerships

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

Proposed programme budget for 2026: Administrative expenses of the United Nations Joint Pension Fund

• Introductory remarks Chair UNJSPB
• Introductory remarks Director PPBD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Director of External Audit (French Republic) and Chair of the Audit Operations Committee, Board of Auditors
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ
• Iraq (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Proposed programme budget for 2026: Assessment of the workplace at United Nations Headquarters

• Introductory remarks Executive Officer DA DOS
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ (English)

Proposed programme budget for 2026: 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 ASG OHR DMSPC
• Iraq (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Proposed programme budget for 2026: Conditions of service and compensation for officials, other than Secretariat officials: Members of the International Court of Justice and President and judges of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

• Introductory remarks ASG OHR DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ
• Iraq (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)

Proposed programme budget for 2026: Construction and property management: Progress in the renovation of Africa Hall at the Economic Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, Progress on the renovation of the North Building at the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean in Santiago, Seismic mitigation retrofit and life-cycle replacements project at the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific premises in Bangkok, Progress on the replacement of office blocks A–J at the United Nations Office at Nairobi, Conference facilities at the United Nations Office at Nairobi

• Introductory remarks Director FOFD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Iraq (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
  • ECA, ECLAC
  • UNON A to J, ESCAP
    
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
• Angola (on behalf of the African Group)
• Thailand
• Kenya
• Chile

Proposed programme budget for 2026: Contingency fund

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

Proposed programme budget for 2026: Financial performance report on the programme budget for 2024

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

Proposed programme budget for 2026: Estimates in respect of special political missions authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council, as well as the relevant parts of the report on the revised estimates relating to the UN80 Initiative

• Introductory remarks ASG Controller
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Uruguay (on behalf of Bahamas, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay and Uruguay)
• Representative of the European Union
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
• Angola (on behalf of the African Group)
• Jamaica (on behalf of Caribbean Community (CARICOM))
• Japan
• Iraq
• Kuwait
• Türkiye
• Haiti
• Nigeria
• Panama

Proposed programme budget for 2026: Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 2025 session

• Introductory remarks Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ
• Iraq (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Saudi Arabia
• Kazakhstan

Proposed programme budget for 2026: Revised estimates resulting from resolutions and decisions adopted by the Human Rights Council

• Introductory remarks Director PPBD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Kyrgyzstan (on behalf of Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan) and Azerbaijan)
• Russian Federation (on behalf of States Parties to the Treaty on the Establishment of the Union State of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Belarus)
• Bahamas (on behalf of Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Mexico, Uruguay and The Bahamas)
• Rwanda
• Israel
• Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Proposed programme budget for 2026: Revised estimates: effect of changes in rates of exchange and inflation

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

Proposed programme budget for 2026: Strategic heritage plan of the United Nations office at Geneva

• Introductory remarks Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ
• Iraq (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Switzerland

Proposed programme budget for 2026: Use of the commitment authority and request for a subvention to the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Use of the commitment authority and request for a subvention to the Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone

• Introductory remarks Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ
• Iraq (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
  • ECCC
  • RSCSL
• Singapore (on behalf of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN))
• Ghana (on behalf of the African Group)
• Cambodia
• Sierra Leone

Programme planning, Proposed programme budget for 2026

• Introductory remarks Secretary-General (English)
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair CPC 65th session
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Introductory remarks JIU
• Introductory remarks CEB
• Iraq (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Representative of the European Union
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
• Switzerland (also on behalf of Liechtenstein)
• Guinea-Bissau (on behalf of the African Group) (Portuguese)
• Mozambique (on behalf of Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP))
• Mexico
• Iran (Islamic Republic of)
• Brazil
• Qatar
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• El Salvador
• Bangladesh
• Saudi Arabia
• Morocco
• Cuba
• Liberia
• France
• Japan
• Russian Federation
• Haiti
• China
• Senegal
• Syrian Arab Republic
• Myanmar

Proposed programme budget for 2026, Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations: Revised estimates relating to the proposed programme budget for 2026 and the support account for peacekeeping operations for the 2025/26 period

• Introductory remarks Secretary-General
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Iraq (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Representative of the European Union
• Kenya (on behalf of the African Group)
• Singapore (on behalf of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations)
• Canada (on behalf of Canada, Australia and New Zealand (CANZ))
• Switzerland
• Morocco
• Mexico
• Thailand
• Saudi Arabia
• France
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• United States of America
• Japan
• Haiti
• Iran (Islamic Republic of)
• Israel
• Botswana
• Russian Federation
• Republic of Korea
• Cuba

Improving the financial situation of the United Nations

4th Meeting, 9 Oct 2025

• Presentation of the USG DMSPC on the Financial Situation of the UN

7th Meeting, 22 Oct 2025

• Introductory remarks USG DMSPC
• Iraq (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))
• Switzerland (also on behalf of Liechtenstein
• Saudi Arabia
• Guyana
• Cuba
• China
• Haiti
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Russian Federation

Pattern of conferences

• Introductory remarks Chair Committee on Conferences
• Introductory remarks USG DGACM
• Iraq (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Qatar
• Maldives
• Iran (Islamic Republic of)

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

• Introductory remarks Chair Committee on Contributions
• Introductory remarks OPPFB DMSPC
• Iraq (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Afghanistan
• Uruguay
• Russian Federation
• Maldives

Report on the activities of the Ethics Office

• Introductory remarks Director Ethics Office
• Mozambique

United Nations common system, data on system-wide compensation costs

• Introductory remarks Chair ICSC
• Introductory remarks Director PPBD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Director OHR DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ
• Statement of FICSA
• Statement of UNISERV
• Statement of CCISUA
• Iraq (on behalf of G77 and China)
• United States of America
• China
• United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Japan
• Russian Federation
• Oman

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
• Iraq (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Switzerland (also on behalf of Liechtenstein)
• United States of America
• Russian Federation

Administration of justice at the United Nations

• Introductory remarks Executive Director OAJ
• Introductory remarks Ombudsman
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ
• Iraq (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 Director FD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ
• Iraq (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Angola (on behalf of the African Group)
• Rwanda
• United Republic of Tanzania

Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations: Financial arrangements and procedures for the implementation of resolution 2719 (2023)

• Introductory remarks Director FOFD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Vice-Chair ACABQ
• Kenya (on behalf of the African Group) (English)

Financing of the United Nations Support Office in Haiti

• Introductory remarks Director PPBD OPPFB DMSPC
• Introductory remarks Chair ACABQ
• Haiti
• Dominican Republic (on behalf of Mexico, El Salvador, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Paraguay, Panama, Ecuador and Dominican Republic)