General Assembly: 84th plenary meeting, 79th session

General Assembly adopts decision on themes of interactive dialogues for 2026 United Nations Water Conference.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / General Assembly
• Video Length: 00:14:59
• Production Date: 9 July 2025
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS WATER CONFERENCE
• Subject Topical: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER; SANITATION; WORK ORGANIZATION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS; WATER MANAGEMENT; SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION; CONFERENCES
• MAMS Id: 3421957
• Parent Id: 3421358
• Alternate Title: MTG GA 79 SESSION 84 PLENARY 09 JUL 2025 AM

Description

The General Assembly in a decision adopted by consensus today made public the themes of the six interactive dialogues for the 2026 United Nations Water Conference. 

Defined “without any particular order of priority”, the themes include: the human rights to water and sanitation; the promotion of integrated and sustainable water resource management; the “source-to-sea” approach; transboundary and international cooperation; water in multilateral processes; and investment in water. 

The adopted text (A/79/L.101) was introduced by the United Arab Emirates, co-hosting the conference with Senegal, which will take place from 2 to 4 December 2026 in the United Arab Emirates. 

• Organization of work, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items: reports of the General Committee - Item 7; Sustainable development - Item 18: Draft decision (A/79/L.101) [Item 7 to reallocate agenda item 18]
• Themes of the interactive dialogues of the 2026 United Nations Water Conference to Accelerate the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6: Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all (A/79/L.101) 

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A/79/L.101

Letter from the President of the General Assembly