Sixth Committee (Legal) — 81st session
Observer status for the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Secretariat in the General Assembly (Provisional agenda item 169)
- Authority: decision 80/523
- List of speakers (will be made available upon the closing of the list of speakers)
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/81/100)
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).
At its eightieth session, the Assembly decided to defer a decision on the item until its eighty-first session (decision 80/523).
