Sixth Committee (Legal) — 75th session
Observer status for the Eurasian Economic Union in the General Assembly (Agenda item 173)
- Authority: decision 74/524
Documentation
- — Letter dated 30 April 2015 from the Permanent Representatives of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Federation to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General; Observer status for the Eurasian Economic Union in the General Assembly
Summary of work
Background (source: )
The item entitled “Observer status for the Eurasian Economic Union in the General Assembly” was included in the agenda of the seventieth session of the Assembly at the request of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Federation (). The Assembly has had the item on its agenda annually since the seventieth session (decisions 70/524, 71/525, 72/524, 73/535 and 74/524).
At its seventy-fourth session, the Assembly decided to defer a decision on the item to its seventy-fifth session (decision 74/524).
Consideration at the seventy-fifth session
The Sixth Committee considered the item at its 19th meeting, on 19 November 2020 (see ). For its consideration of the item, the Committee had before it a letter dated 30 April 2015 from the Permanent Representatives of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Federation to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General ().
Summaries of plenary meetings
19th meeting (19 November 2020, 3:00pm – 6:00pm) | Summary
Action taken by the Sixth Committee
At its 19th meeting, on 19 November 2020, the Chair of the Committee announced that the Bureau had been informed that the delegation of Belarus, on behalf of the sponsors, had requested that the Committee defer a decision on the request for observer status for the Eurasian Economic Union in the General Assembly until the seventy-sixth 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 Eurasian Economic Union in the General Assembly to the seventy-sixth session of the Assembly.
Subsequent action taken by the General Assembly
- Report of the Sixth Committee:
- GA decision: 75/530 [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-sixth session (2021).
