The new session of the Assembly will be installed on September 13, while the general debate will begin a week later.
In today’s session there will be also chosen the vice-president of the General Assembly and the heads of the six main committees of the body that hosts equally 193 sovereign states in the world.
The six working groups are: the First Committee (in charge of issues of Disarmament and International Security), Second (of Finance), the Third (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural), the Fourth (Special Political and Decolonization), the Fifth (Administrative and Budgetary) and the Sixth (Legal).
