A/RES/70/290
United Nations
Distr.: General
19 July 2016
General Assembly
Seventieth session
Agenda items 15 and 116
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 30 June 2016
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/70/L.54)]
70/290. High-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly on
addressing large movements of refugees and migrants
The General Assembly,
Recalling its decision 70/539 of 22 December 2015, in which it decided to
convene, on 19 September 2016, a high-level meeting of the plenary of the General
Assembly on addressing large movements of refugees and migrants,
1.
Decides that:
(a) The high-level meeting on addressing large movements of refugees and
migrants shall consist of a plenary meeting and six interactive multi -stakeholder
round tables and that the organizational arrangements will be as follows:
(i) The opening plenary meeting will be held in the General Assembly Hall
from 8.30 a.m. to 9.30 a.m;
(ii) Following the opening meeting, the plenary meeting will be held
simultaneously in the Economic and Social Council Chamber and the
Trusteeship Council Chamber from 9.30 a.m. to 7.30 p.m.;
(iii) The sequence envisaged for the round tables, although this could be
subject to modification, in consultation with Member States , is that round
tables 1, 2 and 3 will be held in parallel, each running from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.,
and round tables 4, 5 and 6 will be held in parallel, each running from 3 p.m.
to 6 p.m.;
(iv) The closing plenary meeting will be held in the General Assembly Hall
from 7.30 p.m. to 8 p.m.;
(b) The high-level meeting will be co-chaired by the President of the General
Assembly at its seventy-first session and the President of the Assembly at its
seventieth session; the opening plenary meeting will feature state ments of up to
three minutes each involving the President of the Assembly at its seventy-first
session, the President of the Assembly at its seventieth session, the Secretary General, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Director General
of the International Organization for Migration, the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Representative of the Secretary General for International Migration, the Executive Director of the United Nations
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