Meeting records

Statements made during UN meetings may be issued as documents called meeting records. Meeting records from the plenary meetings of the ECOSOC are issued as summary records in the form of a third-person condensed version.

Find meeting records

The meeting records carry the following symbols:

E/ Economic and Social Council

-/year

-/SR. "summary records"

-/sequential number

Ex. E/2001/SR.24 Economic and Social Council, 2001, summary records from the 24th meeting

The meeting records prior to 1978 have only a sequential number and are issued as, for example, E/SR.2021 Economic and Social Council, summary records, meeting no 2021.

• The meeting records in print for the period 1946-1992 are not always available online. From 1993 onwards they can be accessed electronically through the UN databases.
• On the ECOSOC website there are:
  • Meetings and Events of ECOSOC and its Subsidiary Bodies.
  • Full text documents from ECOSOC.
• The press releases with the symbol ECOSOC/- is an alternative source of information.
• Research guides from the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library (New York):
  • How to Find United Nations Meeting Records.
  • UN Documentation Research Guide : ECOSOC Meeting Records.