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Views from New York

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2022

Stephen Mathias*
Affiliation:
Assistant Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, Head of the Office of the Legal Counsel, UN Secretariat. The views expressed here are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations.

Extract

This contribution will provide some brief observations about the manner in which the main intergovernmental bodies of the UN have functioned during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Type
Multilateral Diplomacy When the World is Locked Down
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The American Society of International Law.

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References

1 See UN GA Decision 74/544 (Mar. 27, 2020); UN GA Decision 74/555 (May 15, 2020) (extended it to subsidiary bodies).

2 See UN GA Decision 74/562 (July 16, 2020).

3 See UN GA Decision 75/510 (Nov. 13, 2020).

4 Open-Ended Working Group on Cyber Security and C-34 (Special Committee on Peacekeeping).

5 Sixth Committee Working Groups, such as the Working Group under the Charter Committee.

6 E.g., simultaneous interpretation into six official languages.