Sixth Committee (Legal) — 79th session
Observer status for the Eurasian Economic Union in the General Assembly (Agenda item 170)
At the 37th meeting on 8 November 2024, the Sixth Committee decided to recommend the General Assembly to defer a decision on the request for observer status for the Eurasian Economic Union in the General Assembly to its eightieth session. The Committee thus concluded its consideration of agenda item 170.
- Authority: decision 78/520
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 General Assembly at the request of Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and the Russian Federation (). The Assembly has had the item on its agenda annually since its seventieth session (decisions 70/524, 71/525, 72/524, 73/535, 74/524, 75/530, 76/528, 77/524 and 78/520).
At its seventy-eighth session, the Assembly decided to defer a decision on the item to its seventy-ninth session (decision 78/520).
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