Revitalization of the Work of the General Assembly

A/RES/63/309View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 110 Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly, published in 2009.

What other versions does this mandate have?

20 versions · 1992–2025

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/79/327

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/79/327	Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly	4,131	19%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/335	Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly	7,262	38%Compare
2021	A/RES/75/325	Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly	5,917	9%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/303	Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly	656	12%Compare
2019	A/RES/73/341	Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly	3,957	25%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

6 reports · 2011–2019

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2019	A/73/723	Opening of the regular sessions of the General Assembly report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/72/313
2018	A/72/736	Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/71/323
2017	A/71/780	Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/70/305
2016	A/70/681	Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/69/321
2013	A/67/710	Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/66/294

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Appointment of Officials Documentation Documents Limitation Information Dissemination Mass Media Public Information Public Relations

What’s in this document?

11 operative paragraphs

Welcomes the report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the General Assembly;²

²A/63/959.

Decides to establish, at its sixty-fourth session, an ad hoc working group on the revitalization of the General Assembly, open to all Member States:

To identify further ways to enhance the role, authority, effectiveness and efficiency of the Assembly, inter alia, by building on previous resolutions;

To submit a report thereon to the Assembly at its sixty-fourth session;

Selection of the Secretary-General

Affirms its commitment to continuing, in the Ad Hoc Working Group at the sixty-fourth session, its consideration of the revitalization of the role of the General Assembly in the selection and appointment of the Secretary-General in accordance with Article 97 of the Charter;

Role and authority of the General Assembly

Welcomes the holding of interactive thematic debates on current issues of critical importance to the international community in the General Assembly, and invites the President of the Assembly to continue with this practice in consultation with Member States;

Notes the importance of strengthening the institutional memory of the Office of the President of the General Assembly, and invites the President at the sixty-fourth session to submit his views to the Ad Hoc Working Group at the sixty-fourth session for its consideration;

Working methods

Requests the President of the General Assembly at its sixty-fourth session, in consultation with Member States, to make proposals for the further biennialization, triennialization, clustering and elimination of items on the agenda of the Assembly, taking into account the relevant recommendations of the Ad Hoc Working Group, including the introduction of a sunset clause;

Calls upon Member States to respond to the annual review of the Meetings and Publishing Division of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management on the distribution of printed documents to Missions, bearing in mind the cost savings, as well as the reduced environmental impact, which may accrue from this exercise, in order to improve the quality and distribution of those documents;

Invites the Committee on Information at its thirty-second session to consider the sections on media and visibility in the report of the Ad Hoc Working Group, in particular those that call for less rigid restrictions and better access to people and information, and requests the Committee on Information to consider recommending measures for the operationalization and implementation of aspects thereof in its report to the Assembly through the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) at its sixty-fifth session;

Decides that the Ad Hoc Working Group, during the sixty-fourth session, shall further consider options for more time-effective, efficient and secure balloting, reiterating the need to ascertain the credibility, reliability and confidentiality of the balloting process.