General Assembly: 81st plenary meeting, 79th session

General Assembly: 81st plenary meeting, 79th session.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / General Assembly
• Video Length: 02:31:38
• Production Date: 30 June 2025
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Corporate Name: FIFTH COMMITTEE - ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUDGETARY QUESTIONS; FOURTH COMMITTEE - SPECIAL POLITICAL AND DECOLONISATION
• Subject Topical: CONFERENCES; CULTURE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; LAW OF THE SEA; OCEANS; PEACE; PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; BUDGET; WILDLIFE; INTERFAITH DIALOGUE; INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
• MAMS Id: 3419072
• Parent Id: 3418945
• Alternate Title: MTG GA 79 SESSION 81 PLENARY 30 JUN 2025 PM

Description

The General Assembly today endorsed the political declaration of the United Nations Ocean Conference, which establishes multilateral ocean governance.  It also adopted the $5.38 billion peacekeeping budget for the year starting 1 July.

Titled “Our Ocean, Our Future:  United for Urgent Action” (A/79/L.97), the declaration was adopted by acclamation at the close of the Conference held earlier this month in Nice, France.  However, today’s formal endorsement by the 193-member Assembly required a recorded vote, with 162 in favour to 1 against (United States), with no abstentions.  

• Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects - Item 51: Report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) (A/79/424/Add.1) 
• Reports of the Fifth Committee 

Note by the Secretariat (A/C.5/79/INF/4) 

• Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields - Item 13: Draft resolution (A/79/L.96) 

Action on the draft resolution 

• Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields - Item 13; Oceans and the law of the sea - Item 75 (a) (A/79/L.97) 

Action on the draft resolution 

• Culture of peace - Item 14: Draft resolutions (A/79/L.95, A/79/L.98) 

Action on the draft resolutions 

Related Sites and Documents

UN Meetings Coverage

A/79/424/Add.1

A/C.5/79/INF/4

A/79/L.96

A/79/L.97

A/79/L.95

A/79/L.98