A/RES/68/307. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2014

• Resolution Number: A/RES/68/307
• Session: 68th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/68/307

General Assembly Distr.: General

18 September 2014

Sixty-eighth session

Agenda item 122

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 10 September 2014

[without reference to a Main Committee (A/68/951)]

68/307. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly

The General Assembly

,

Reaffirming

its resolution 67/297 of 29 August 2013 and all other previous

resolutions relating to the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly,

1

Underlining

the need to further enhance the role, authority, effectiveness and

efficiency of the General Assembly,

Reiterating

that the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly is a

critical component of the overall reform of the United Nations,

Reaffirming

the central position of the General Assembly as the chief

deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the United Nations, as well

as the role of the Assembly in the process of standard-setting and the codification of

international law,

Reaffirming

also

the role and authority of the General Assembly in global

matters of concern to the international community, including in global governance,

as set out in the Charter of the United Nations,

Welcoming

the efforts of the President of the General Assembly to reinvigorate

the revitalization of the work of the Assembly during its sixty-eighth session,

1.

Wel co me s

the report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization

of the Work of the General Assembly and the updated inventory of General

Assembly resolutions on revitalization annexed thereto;

2

2.

Also welcomes

the establishment of a multilingual web page devoted to

the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly, accessible directly from the

United Nations website, and invites the Secretariat to continue updating that web

page and its substantive content;

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1 Resolutions 46/77, 47/233, 48/264, 51/241, 52/163, 55/14, 55/285, 56/509, 57/300, 57/301, 58/126,

58/316, 59/313, 60/286, 61/292, 62/276, 63/309, 64/301, 65/315 and 66/294.

2 A/68/951.