Sixth Committee (Legal) — 79th session
Observer status for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Secretariat in the General Assembly (Provisional agenda item 172)
- Authority: decision 78/522
Documentation
- A/72/194 — Note verbale dated 11 August 2017 from the Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
Summary of work
Background (source: A/79/100)
The item entitled “Observer status for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Secretariat in the General Assembly” was included in the agenda of the seventy-second session of the General Assembly at the request of Uruguay (A/72/194). The Assembly has had the item on its agenda annually since its seventy-second session (decisions 72/526, 73/537, 74/526, 75/532, 76/530, 77/526 and 78/522).
At its seventy-eighth session, the Assembly decided to defer a decision on the item to its seventy-ninth session (decision 78/522).
