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Sixth Committee (Legal) — 73rd session

Observer status for the Global Environment Facility in the General Assembly (Agenda item 173)

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Background (source: )

The item entitled “Observer status for the Global Environment Facility in the General Assembly” was included in the agenda of the seventy-second session of the Assembly at the request of Uruguay ().

At its seventy-second session, the Assembly decided to defer a decision on the item to its seventy-third session (decision 72/527).

Consideration at the seventy-third session

The Sixth Committee considered the item at its 14th meeting, on 15 October 2018 (see ).For its consideration of the item, the Committee had before it a note verbale dated 12 August 2017 from the Permanent Mission of Uruguay to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General ().

Action taken by the Sixth Committee

At the 14th meeting, on 15 October 2018, the Chair of the Committee announced that the Bureau had been informed that the delegation of Uruguay had requested that the Committee defer a decision on the request for observer status for the Global Environment Facility in the General Assembly until the seventy-fourth 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 Global Environment Facility in the General Assembly to the seventy-fourth session of the Assembly.

Subsequent action taken by the General Assembly

This agenda item will be considered at the seventy-fourth session (2019).

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