Sixth Committee (Legal) — 79th session
Observer status for the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States in the General Assembly (Agenda item 169)
- Authority: decision 78/519
- List of speakers
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/79/100)
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 General 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, 77/523 and 78/519).
At its seventy-eighth session, the Assembly decided to defer a decision on the item to its seventy-ninth session (decision 78/519).
Consideration at the seventy-ninth session
The Sixth Committee considered the item at its 37th meeting, on 8 November 2024 (see A/C.6/79/SR.37). 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
37th meeting (8 November 2024, 10:00am – 1:00pm) | Summary
Action taken by the Sixth Committee
At its 37th meeting, on 8 November 2024, the Chair of the Committee announced that the Bureau had been informed that the delegation of Kazakhstan, 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 eightieth 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 eightieth session of the Assembly.
Subsequent action taken by the General Assembly
- Report of the Sixth Committee: A/79/480
- GA decision: 79/526 [for the text of the decision, see the Sixth Committee's report to the General Assembly]
This agenda item will be considered at the eightieth session (2025).
