Eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly

Eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly
Eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly
← 79th 9 September 2025 – 8 September 2026 81st →
Host country	United Nations
City	New York City, United States
Venue	General Assembly Hall at the United Nations Headquarters
Participants	United Nations Member States
President	Annalena Baerbock
Secretary-General	António Guterres
Website	www.un.org/en/ga/

The Eightieth session of the United Nations General Assembly is the current session of the United Nations General Assembly, which began on 9 September 2025.^[1] The president of the General Assembly is from the Western European and Others Group.^[a]

Organisation for the session

President

On 2 June 2025, Germany's former foreign minister Annalena Baerbock was elected to the position of President of the General Assembly.^[3]

Results
Candidates	Home state	Votes	%
Annalena Baerbock	Germany	167	88.83
Helga Schmid	Germany	7	3.723
Total		174	100.00

Abstention		14	7.447
Valid Votes		188	100.00
Blank and Invalid Votes		0	0.00
Registered / participation		193	97.41

Vice-presidents

The General Assembly elected the following countries as the vice-presidents of the 80th session:

The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council:

As well as the following nations:^[4]

Committees

**First Committee** (Disarmament and International Security)^[5]
Name	Country	Position
Maurizio Massari	Italy	Chairperson
Amr Essam Eldin Sadek Ahmed	Egypt	Vice-chair
Pawinrat Mahaguna	Thailand	Vice-chair
Jakub Jaros	Poland	Vice-chair
Ana Maricela Ávila Becerril	Costa Rica	Rapporteur

**Second Committee** (Economic and Financial)^[5]
Name	Country	Position
Lamin B. Dibba	Gambia	Chairperson
Weronika Garbacz	Poland	Vice-chair
Andrés Napuri Pita	Peru	Vice-chair
Jenni Mikkola	Finland	Vice-chair
Javid Momeni	Iran	Rapporteur

**Third Committee** (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural)^[5]
Name	Country	Position
Cherdchai Chaivaivid	Thailand	Chairperson
Glentis Thomas	Antigua and Barbuda	Vice-chair
Katarina Andrić	Croatia	Vice-chair
Ginevra Oliva	Italy	Vice-chair
Edna Stephanie Williams	Ghana	Rapporteur

**Fourth Committee** (Special Political and Decolonization)^[5]
Name	Country	Position
José Alberto Bríz Gutiérrez	Guatemala	Chairperson
Josélyne Kwishaka	Burundi	Vice-chair
Noel Novicio	Philippines	Vice-chair
Raphael Ruppacher	Austria	Vice-chair
Dávid Nagy	Hungary	Rapporteur

**Fifth Committee** (Administrative and Budgetary)^[5]
Name	Country	Position
Zsuzsanna Horváth	Hungary	Chairperson
Badreldeen Bakhit	Sudan	Vice-chair
Mohammad Taghi Amrollahi	Iran	Vice-chair
Erik Björk	Sweden	Vice-chair
Vadim Belloni	Chile	Rapporteur

**Sixth Committee** (Legal)^[5]^[6]
Name	Country	Position
Enrique A. Manalo^[b]	Philippines	Chairperson
Estela Mercedes Nze Mansogo	Equatorial Guinea	Vice-chair
Marek Zukal	Czech Republic	Vice-chair
Lucía Teresa Solano Ramírez	Colombia	Vice-chair
Wieteke Theeuwen	Netherlands	Rapporteur

General debate

Each member of the General Assembly will have a representative speaking about issues concerning their country and the hopes for the coming year as to what the UNGA will do. This is an opportunity for the member states to opine on international issues of their concern.

The order of speakers is given first to member states, then observer states and supranational bodies. Any other observers entities will have a chance to speak at the end of the debate, if they so choose. Speakers will be put on the list in the order of their request, with special consideration for ministers and other government officials of similar or higher rank. According to the rules in place for the General Debate, the statements should be in one of the United Nations official languages of Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian or Spanish, and will be translated by the United Nations translators. Each speaker is requested to provide 350 advance copies of their statements to the conference officers to facilitate translation and to be presented at the podium.^[7]

Resolutions and texts adopted

On 25 March 2026, the General Assembly adopted the United Nations Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialized Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime against Humanity.^[8]

References

Notes

↑ The presidency rotates annually between the five geographic groups: African, Asia-Pacific, Eastern European, Latin American and Caribbean, and Western European and other States.^[2]
↑ The Chairperson of the Sixth Committee was originally elected to be Leila Castillon Lora-Santos from the Philippines, who stepped down from the role. Following this, Enrique A. Manalo was elected to assume the role.

Citations

↑ "Opening dates of forthcoming regular sessions of the General Assembly and of the general debate : note / by the Secretariat". United Nations Digital Library. 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
↑ "About the General Assembly". United Nations. Retrieved 18 January 2025.
↑ "Germany's ex-foreign minister Baerbock chosen to lead UN Assembly". France 24. Agence France-Presse. 2 June 2025. Retrieved 2 June 2025.
↑ "General Assembly official records, 79th session : 72th plenary meeting, Monday, 2 June 2025, New York". UN Official Document Systems. 2 June 2025. Retrieved 7 February 2026.
1 2 3 4 5 6 "General Assembly Elects Annalena Baerbock of Germany President of Eightieth Session, Selects Main Committee Bureaus". United Nations. 2 June 2025. Retrieved 29 June 2025.
↑ "Sixth Committee Elects Enrique A. Manalo (Philippines) Chair for Eightieth Session | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases". press.un.org. Archived from the original on 17 October 2025. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
↑ Ruder, Nicole; Nakano, Kenji; Aeschlimann, Johann (2017). Aeschlimann, Johann; Regan, Mary (eds.). The GA Handbook: A Practical Guide to the United Nations General Assembly (PDF) (2nd ed.). New York: Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations. pp. 17, 86–88. ISBN 978-0-615-49660-3.
↑ Egbejule, Eromo (25 March 2026). "UN votes to describe slave trade as 'gravest crime against humanity'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 26 March 2026.

[3] The presidency rotates annually between the five geographic groups: African, Asia-Pacific, Eastern European, Latin American and Caribbean, and Western European and other States.^[2]

[8] The Chairperson of the Sixth Committee was originally elected to be Leila Castillon Lora-Santos from the Philippines, who stepped down from the role. Following this, Enrique A. Manalo was elected to assume the role.

[:0-1] "Opening dates of forthcoming regular sessions of the General Assembly and of the general debate : note / by the Secretariat". United Nations Digital Library. 2022. Retrieved 18 January 2025.

[2] "About the General Assembly". United Nations. Retrieved 18 January 2025.

[4] "Germany's ex-foreign minister Baerbock chosen to lead UN Assembly". France 24. Agence France-Presse. 2 June 2025. Retrieved 2 June 2025.

[5] "General Assembly official records, 79th session : 72th plenary meeting, Monday, 2 June 2025, New York". UN Official Document Systems. 2 June 2025. Retrieved 7 February 2026.

[:Election-6] 1 2 3 4 5 6 "General Assembly Elects Annalena Baerbock of Germany President of Eightieth Session, Selects Main Committee Bureaus". United Nations. 2 June 2025. Retrieved 29 June 2025.

[7] "Sixth Committee Elects Enrique A. Manalo (Philippines) Chair for Eightieth Session | Meetings Coverage and Press Releases". press.un.org. Archived from the original on 17 October 2025. Retrieved 23 March 2026.

[9] Ruder, Nicole; Nakano, Kenji; Aeschlimann, Johann (2017). Aeschlimann, Johann; Regan, Mary (eds.). The GA Handbook: A Practical Guide to the United Nations General Assembly (PDF) (2nd ed.). New York: Permanent Mission of Switzerland to the United Nations. pp. 17, 86–88. ISBN 978-0-615-49660-3.

[10] Egbejule, Eromo (25 March 2026). "UN votes to describe slave trade as 'gravest crime against humanity'". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 26 March 2026.

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