General Assembly: 59th plenary meeting, 80th session

Omnibus humanitarian text withdrawn after decades of General Assembly consensus as delegates surmount divisions to adopt 3 texts on aid personnel, disaster response.

• Categories: Meetings & Events / General Assembly
• Video Length: 03:01:30
• Production Date: 10 December 2025
• Asset Language: Arabic; English; French; Russian; Spanish; Chinese; Original
• Subject Topical: DISASTER RELIEF; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; PALESTINIAN PEOPLE; UNITED NATIONS PERSONNEL; NUCLEAR ACCIDENTS; RELIEF PERSONNEL
• MAMS Id: 3514186
• Parent Id: 3512217
• Alternate Title: MTG GA 80 SESSION 59 PLENARY 10 DEC 2025 AM

Description

As the General Assembly took up a series of resolutions regarding humanitarian and disaster relief assistance, the annual omnibus text on strengthening the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance was withdrawn — after three decades of consensus adoption — as delegates expressed divisions about the role of the UN in humanitarian work, and what that work should include.

“Our debate today is not only about the role and necessity of humanitarian relief but also about how deeply we believe in this institution and how willing we are” to stand up for its principles, said Annalena Baerbock (Germany), President of the General Assembly, ahead of the joint debate on strengthening coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance.

In a glaring reflection of the increasing contentions within the international community, humanitarian texts that used to be adopted by consensus faced challenges this year, with the omnibus text “Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations” (document A/80/L.25) taken back by its chief negotiator.

Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance - Item 72

• Reports of the Secretary-General (A/80/292, A/80/86)

Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations - Item 72 (a)

• Reports of the Secretary-General (A/80/75, A/80/384, A/80/390)
• Draft resolutions (A/80/L.18, A/80/L.23, A/80/L.25)
• Draft amendments (A/80/L.19, A/80/L.20, A/80/L.30, A/80/L.31, A/80/L.32, A/80/L.33, A/80/L.36)

Assistance to the Palestinian people - Item 72 (b)

Special economic assistance to individual countries or regions - Item 72 (c)

Strengthening of international cooperation and coordination of efforts to study, mitigate and minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster - Item 72 (d)

• Report of the Secretary-General (A/80/395)
• Draft resolutions (A/80/L.3, A/80/L.27)
• Draft amendments (A/80/L.28, A/80/L.35)

Debate on the item as a whole and action on the draft amendments and draft resolutions

Statements delivered:

• Belarus (to introduce draft resolution A/80/L.3 and draft amendment A/80/L.35)
• Denmark (to introduce draft resolution A/80/L.18) (on behalf of the European Union)
• Russian Federation (to introduce draft amendments A/80/L.19, A/80/L.20 and A/80/L.36)
• Iraq (to introduce draft resolution A/80/L.23) (on behalf of the Group of 77 and China)
• Sweden (to introduce draft resolution A/80/L.25)
• United States (to introduce draft amendments A/80/L.30, A/80/L.31, A/80/L.32 and A/80/L.33)
• Ukraine (to introduce draft resolution A/80/L.27 and draft amendment A/80/L.28)
• European Union (on behalf of the EU and its member States)
• Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) (on behalf of the Group of Friends in Defense of the Charter of the UN)
• Canada
• Australia
• Qatar
• Thailand
• Norway
• Egypt
• New Zealand
• United Kingdom
• Poland
• Morocco
• Indonesia
• Switzerland

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A/80/L.25