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Annual Reports
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The Councils and the other UN organs submit the annual reports of their activities to the General Assembly for approval. They are published as Supplements to the Official Records of the General Assembly. There are, at present, about 50 such supplements each year.
The amount may vary due to ad hoc committees, conferences etc. The supplements give a comprehensive overview of the activities of the UN organs for the year listing their documents and reports.
No 1 in the series of supplements to the General Assembly is the Report of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization. This is an important plan of action for the work of the UN and it is often issued as an individual publication.
Nos 5 and 6 in the series of supplements to the General Assembly is a compilation of budgetary and financial questions.
Documentation
The supplements to the General Assembly have the following documentary symbols:
A/ General Assembly |
-/session number |
-/current number |
Ex. A/55/1 General Assembly, 55th session, no 1 = Report of the Secretary-General on the Work of the Organization (for the year 2000) |
A complete collection of supplements to the General Assembly in print will be found in the UN Collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala. and in the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
Databases and Indexes
A list of all supplements from 1946- can be retrieved through the database UN-I-QUE.
The supplements are published electronically from 1993- in the United Nations Document System - ODS.
The supplements are posted in full text from the 55th session (2000) at the official web site of the United Nations, section Documents, General Assembly, Sessions.
Printed Indexes
The Index to Proceedings of the General Assembly gives an overview of all the supplements for a particular session/year. A complete series of Indexes will be found in the UN Collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala, and in the libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.