Sixth Committee (Legal) — 78th session
Observer status for the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States in the General Assembly (Agenda item 162)
- Authority: decision 77/523
Documentation
- A/66/141 — Letter dated 2 May 2011 from the Permanent Representatives of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General; Observer status for the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States in the General Assembly
Summary of work
Background (source: A/78/100)
The item entitled “Observer status for the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States in the General Assembly” was included in the agenda of the sixty-sixth session of the Assembly at the request of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey (A/66/141). The Assembly has had the item on its agenda annually since its sixty-sixth session (decisions 66/527, 67/525, 68/528, 69/527, 70/523, 71/524, 72/523, 73/534, 74/523, 75/529, 76/527 and 77/523).
At its seventy-seventh session, the Assembly decided to defer a decision on the item to its seventy-eighth session (decision 77/523).
Consideration at the seventy-eighth session
The Sixth Committee considered the item at its 36th meeting, on 8 November 2023 (see A/C.6/78/SR.36). For its consideration of the item, the Committee had before it a letter dated 2 May 2011 from the Permanent Representatives of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General (A/66/141).
Archived videos and summaries of plenary meetings
36th meeting (8 November 2023, 10:00am – 11:30am) | Summary
Action taken by the Sixth Committee
At its 36th meeting, on 8 November 2023, the Chair of the Committee announced that the Bureau had been informed that the delegation of Uzbekistan, on behalf of the sponsors, had requested that the Committee defer a decision on the request for observer status for the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States in the General Assembly until the seventy-ninth 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 Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States in the General Assembly to the seventy-ninth session of the Assembly.
Subsequent action taken by the General Assembly
- Report of the Sixth Committee: A/78/448
- GA decision: 78/519 [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-ninth session (2024).
