United Nations Official Records

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• United Nations General Assembly Official Records 1946 - 1993
  

• 1. Plenary meetings (meeting of the whole General Assembly)
  2. Committee meetings
     

     1. General Committee (composed of the President of the Assembly, 21 Vice Presidents and chairmen of the seven main committees)
     2. First Committee (Political and Security, including the regulation of armaments)
     3. Special Political Committee (shares the work of the First Committee)
     4. Second Committee (Economic and Financial)
     5. Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural)
     6. Fourth Committee (Trusteeship, including Non-Self-GoverningTerritories)
     7. Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary)
     8. Sixth Committee (Legal)

  3. Annexes (documents compiled by agenda item number - issued as an adjunct to the meeting records)
  4. Supplements (supplements to records)
  5. Index to proceedings (shelved at the end of each session's documents)
  6. Additional UN General Assembly publications

• Journal of the United Nations 1946 - 1947
  
• United Nations Journal of the General Assembly 1947 - 1950
  
• United Nations Legislative Series
  
• United Nations Atomic Energy Commission Official Records 1946 - 1949
  
• United Nations Disarmament Commission Official Records 1952-1972
  
• United Nations Economic and Social Council Official Records 1946 - 1993
  

• 1. Plenary meetings
  2. Summary records
  3. Annexes
  4. Supplements
  5. Index to proceedings
  6. Additional publications of the UN Economic and Social Council

• United Nations Journal of the Economic and Social Council 1946
  
• United Nations Secretariat
  
• United Nations Security Council Official Records 1946 - 1991
  

• 1. Meeting records
  2. Supplements
  3. Resolutions and decisions
  4. Index to proceedings
  5. Additional publications of the UN Security Council

• United Nations Journal of the Security Council 1946
  
• United Nations Trusteeship Council Official Records 1947 - 1992
  
• United Nations Trade and Development Board Official Records 1965 - 1992

 Locating Official Records
Bound volumes of UN Official Records are shelved at the West Campus Library by author in order of United Nations session and year or years of the session. ex: United Nations General Assembly Official Records 1st Session 1946.

Official Records are given a document series symbol by the issuing body and consist of a leading element such as A/ which stands for the general assembly. For example, in document series symbol: A/45/2 ---- A = General Assembly, 45 = 45th session, 2 = 2nd general main document. Other secondary elements include /INF/ = informations series, /L = limited distribution, and /CN/ = commission.

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