Administrative and Budgetary Committee (Fifth Committee)
Fifth Committee Info Hub
- Dashboards
The Bureaux and Coordinators dashboards offer an overview of the Fifth Committee’s institutional landscape by presenting current and past Bureau composition and coordinator information. The Documentation dashboard provides users with prompt access to the documents under consideration by the Committee during its current session. The Meetings dashboard summarizes the types and number of meetings held in a given session, offering a snapshot of the Committee’s workload and activity patterns.
 Bureaux 1st session (1946) to present |
 Coordinators Past and present |
Meetings Formal meetings, briefings, informal consultations and informal-informal consultations |
 Documentation 80th session |
- Fifth Committee Manual: published as an initiative of the Permanent Mission of Belgium to the UN (English, French)
- Fifth Committee practices and working methods
- Organization of the work of the Fifth Committee - A/C.5/80/INF/1
- Practice of the Fifth Committee with regard to terms used when taking on reports
- Rules of Procedure of the General Assembly
- Historical and analytical note on the practices and working - A/58/CRP.5
A conference room paper produced for the 58th Session of the General Assembly providing an overview of the working methods and functions of the main Committees. - The process of informals at the Fifth Committee
An article from the UN Chronicle written in March 2002 by Vikram Sura, shedding some light on the processes that lead to consensus in the Fifth Committee.
