The United Nations General Assembly:

is one of the six principal organs of the United

Nations and the only one in which all member
nations have equal representation. Its powers
are to oversee the budget of the United Nations,
appoint the non-permanent members to
the Security Council, receive reports from other
parts of the United Nations and make
recommendations in the form of General
Assembly Resolutions. It has also established a
wide number of subsidiary organs.
History :
The General Assembly of the
United Nations is located
at United Nations
Headquarters in New York. In
December 1988, in order to
hearYasser Arafat, the General
Assembly organised its 29th
session in the Palace of Nations,
in Geneva (Switzerland).
Committees
Main committees
The main committees are ordinally numbered, 16:
The First Committee: Disarmament and International Security (DISEC)
The Second Committee: Economic and Financial (ECOFIN)
The Third Committee: Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian (SOCHUM)
The Fourth Committee: Special Political and Decolonisation (SPECPOL)
The Fifth Committee: Administrative and Budgetary
The Sixth Committee: Legal.

Agenda
The agenda for each session is planned up to
seven months in advance and begins with the
release of a preliminary list of items to be
included in the provisional agenda. This is
refined into a provisional agenda 60 days before
the opening of the session. After the session
begins, the final agenda is adopted in a plenary
meeting which allocates the work to the various
Main Committees who later submit reports back
to the Assembly for adoption by consensus or by
vote.
Agenda
The agenda for each session is planned up to
seven months in advance and begins with the
release of a preliminary list of items to be
included in the provisional agenda. This is
refined into a provisional agenda 60 days
before the opening of the session. After the
session begins, the final agenda is adopted in a
plenary meeting which allocates the work to
the various Main Committees who later submit
reports back to the Assembly for adoption by
consensus or by vote.