General Assembly Holds 69th Plenary Meeting

The General Assembly votes on a draft resolution on "Scope, modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting on the thirtieth anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women" during the the 69th plenary meeting of the Assembly. The Resolution was adopted with 94 votes in favour; 10 against; and 31 abstentions.

At dais at left is Cherdchai Chaivaivid, Vice-President of the seventy-ninth session of the United Nations General Assembly and Permanent Representative of Thailand to the United Nations, and at right is Kenji Nakano, Chief of the General Assembly Affairs Branch, Department for General Assembly and Conference Management (DGACM).

The meeting dealt with a number of items on the agenda such as 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; Organization of work; Advancement of women; and Eightieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War.