Annual report
The Security Council's annual report to the General Assembly provides an overview of the organization and the activities of the Council.
The report covers all issues considered by the Security Council and its subsidiary organs during the reporting period. It also contains
- matters not dealt with in the official meetings
- lists of documents issued by the Council.
Find The Security Council's annual reports
The Security Council's annual report (supplement) to the General Assembly have the following documentary symbol:
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A/ General Assembly |
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-/session number |
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2/current number |
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Ex. A/68/2 General Assembly, 68th session, no 2 = Report of the Security Council (for the year 2012-2013) |
- The annual report is published as no 2 in the series Supplements to the Official Records of the General Assembly.
- Fulltext Annual Reports from 1946 onwards at the Security Council website.
- UN Documentation : Security Council reports. Research guide by Dag Hammarskjöld Library, New York.
Key UN documents
- UN Charter in Swedish | in English
- UN System Chart
- Yearbook of the United Nations
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Swedish | in English
- Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
- Statue of the International Court of Justice
UN documents and publications in catalogues and databases
- United Nations Digital Library offers UN documents and open access publications, UN voting data and speeches, UN maps, Content in 6+ languages. Replaces the traditional online catalogue UNBISnet.
- UN iLibrary UN publications online covering different topics.
- ODS full-text UN documents published from 1993 onward and scanned documents published between 1946 and 1993 in the official languages of the UN.
- Daily list of documents (ODS). Documents published for the day, with full text links, can be found in the United Nations full text database ODS.
- UNBIS Thesaurus a multilingual database of the controlled vocabulary used to describe UN documents.
- Index to proceedings is an annual bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the major UN organs. The index includes:
- a list of all documents
- a comprehensive subject index
- an index to speeches
- a voting chart of resolutions
- United Nations Documents Index (United Nations Digital Library) References to all documents by subject area are published. A collection of indexes is held by the Dag Hammarskjöld and Law Library, Uppsala, and the Libraries at UN Headquarters in New York and Geneva.
UN Documents available online
- All UN documents from 1993-.
- All resolutions of the Principal Organs from 1946-.
- All Security Council plenary documents from 1946- in English, French and Spanish.
- All supplements to the General Assembly Official Records (GAOR) from 1946-.
- All General Assembly plenary meeting records from 1946- in English, French and Spanish.
- Older documents are being scanned: Update on UN Digitization Programme.
Last modified: 2023-03-20