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Sixth Committee (Legal) — 78th session

Observer status for the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States in the General Assembly (Agenda item 162)

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Background (source: )

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 Assembly at the request of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkey (). 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 and 77/523).

At its seventy-seventh session, the Assembly decided to defer a decision on the item to its seventy-eighth session (decision 77/523).

Consideration at the seventy-eighth session

The Sixth Committee considered the item at its 36th meeting, on 8 November 2023 (see ). 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 ().

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Video    (8 November 2023, 10:00am – 11:30am) | Summary

Action taken by the Sixth Committee

At its 36th meeting, on 8 November 2023, the Chair of the Committee announced that the Bureau had been informed that the delegation of Uzbekistan, 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 seventy-ninth 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 seventy-ninth session of the Assembly.

Subsequent action taken by the General Assembly

This agenda item will be considered at the seventy-ninth session (2024).

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