Standing Mandate for a General Assembly Debate when a Veto Is Cast in the Security Council

A/RES/76/262View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 124 Strengthening of the United Nations System, published in 2022.

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Conferences Organizational Change Veto

What’s in this document?

5 operative paragraphs

Decides that the President of the General Assembly shall convene a formal meeting of the General Assembly within 10 working days of the casting of a veto by one or more permanent members of the Security Council, to hold a debate on the situation as to which the veto was cast, provided that the Assembly does not meet in an emergency special session on the same situation;

Also decides, on an exceptional basis, to accord precedence in the list of speakers to the permanent member or permanent members of the Security Council having cast a veto;

Invites the Security Council, in accordance with Article 24 (3) of the Charter of the United Nations, to submit a special report on the use of the veto in question to the General Assembly at least 72 hours before the relevant discussion in the Assembly;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its seventy-seventh session an item entitled “Use of the veto”, and that the item should remain on the agenda of the Assembly for consideration in accordance with paragraph 1 of the present resolution;

Also decides that, should a veto be cast by one or more permanent members of the Security Council during the remainder of the seventy-sixth session of the General Assembly, the President of the General Assembly shall convene a formal meeting of the Assembly, in accordance with paragraph 1 of the present resolution, under the agenda item entitled “Strengthening of the United Nations system”.

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