Measures to economize the time of the General Assembly

UN General Assembly, Measures to economize the time of the General Assembly, A/RES/102, UN General Assembly, 15 December 1946, https://www.refworld.org/legal/resolution/unga/1946/en/7725 [accessed 17 March 2025]
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I. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE SIXTH COMMITTEE
102. Measures to economize the time of the General Assembly

The General Assembly, Recognizing that the agenda of future sessions will likely entail a heavy volume of work and that the experience acquired during the first session reveals that decisions could be reached more expeditiously through improvements in the rules of procedure and internal organization; Taking into consideration the various proposals that have been submitted on measures to economize the time of the General Assembly and of the discussions pertaining thereto: Invites Members of the General Assembly to forward to the Secretary-General any suggestions they may wish to make regarding measures to economize the time of the General Assembly and proposed changes in the provisional rules of procedure; Directs the Secretary-General to make a study of measures to economize the time of the General Assembly, and of the provisional rules of procedure, taking into account:

1. The memoranda submitted by the delegation of Canada;[1]

2. Suggestions received from Members pursuant to the above invitation;

3. The views expressed in the Sub-Committee of the General Committee during its consideration of this question;[2]

4. The experience acquired and the precedents established during the first session;

and to prepare a report for circulation three months before the opening of the second session; Appoints a Committee on Procedures and Organization consisting of fifteen members to be designated by the Governments of
Argentina, Belgium, Canada, China, Cuba, Denmark, France, Greece, Haiti, Peru, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom, United States of America, Yugoslavia, which shall meet one week before the opening of the second regular session for the purpose of considering the report of the Secretary-General and of studying the provisional rules of procedure and internal organization of the General Assembly and to present a report thereon to the General Assembly at the beginning of the second regular session. Sixty-seventh plenary meeting,
15 December 1946.
[1] Documents A/92, A/92/Add. 1 and A/BUR/69. [2] Document A/BUR/71.
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