International Delegates' Day 2024; April 25th.

FORUM: “Valuing delegates and representatives.” International Delegate’s Day 2024. The United Nations General Assembly President will address to the Permanent Missions and Observer Offices, Heads of State, Heads of Government and Ministers for Foreign Affairs , U.N. Senior officials with the 2023 Credentials Presented to the Secretary-General on the Rules and Procedure of the United Nations General Assembly.

 

EVENTS: "Reflections & Vision for the Future." The celebration of the International delegates Day 2024 will be held on April 25th at UNHQ in New york and at UN Office in GENEVA. The 2024 calendar of conferences and meetings of the United Nations is prepared by the Meetings Management Section of the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management. It is then reviewed by the Committee on Conferences and approved by the United Nations General Assembly.

Reflections & Vision for the Future.

PUBLICATION:The Protocol and Liaison Service contributes to the Delegates’ Handbook, a booklet that contains information of a general nature about United Nations Headquarters and is applicable throughout the current session.

UN Press Conferences - The Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General (OSSG) to reserve the Press Briefing Room (S-237). 

 
April 25th - Update on UNRWA and the Situation in the Middle East

2024 International Delegates Day - Press Conferences

October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child

United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 66/170 to declare October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child,  October 11 as the International Day of the Girl Child,  
Press Conference: Launch of a new report on child marriage by United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
Speakers: Mr. Babatunde Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

United Nations (UN) member states

There are United Nations (UN) member states, and each of them is a member of the United Nations General Assembly.
The criteria for admission of new members are set out in the United Nations Charter, Chapter II, Article 4, as follows:

1. Membership in the United Nations is open to all other peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the present Charter and, in the judgment of the Organization, are able and willing to carry out these obligations.
2. The admission of any such state to membership in the United Nations will be effected by a decision of the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council.

A recommendation for admission from the Security Council requires affirmative votes from at least nine of the council's fifteen members, with none of the five permanent members voting against. The Security Council's recommendation must then be subsequently approved in the General Assembly by a two-thirds majority vote.In principle, only sovereign states can become UN members, and currently all UN members are sovereign states (although a few members were not sovereign when they joined the UN). Vatican City is the only sovereign state with general international recognition that is not a UN member (the Holy See, which holds sovereignty over the state of Vatican City and maintains diplomatic relations with other states, is a UN permanent observer). Because a state can only be admitted to the UN by the approval of the Security Council and the General Assembly, a number of states that may be considered sovereign states according to the Montevideo Convention criteria are not members because the UN does not consider them to possess sovereignty, mainly due to the lack of international recognition or opposition from certain members.