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UN Resources

Databases & websites

General Assembly Fifth Committee

Website of the Administrative and Budgetary Committee of the General Assembly with a wealth of resources; see the Current Session Programme of Work, in particular, to find documentation related to what is under consideration.

Official Document System (ODS)
United Nations official document system: provides full text search of documents issued since 1993; resolutions of all principal organs & Security Council plenary documents since 1946. Older documents are added regularly. Includes the Daily Journals of New York and Geneva.
UN Meetings Coverage and Press Releases
Available online from October 1995. Press Releases are not official documents but provide timely information on the current activities of the principal organs and subsidiary bodies, including summaries of meetings.
UNBISnet - Bibliographic Records
UNBISnet is the catalogue of the UN Library in New York. In addition to the library's holdings it accesses multilingual versions of UN documents (1993-present), citation to documents (1979-present) ; metadata and online links to older documents are added regularly.
UNBISnet - Index to Speeches
Provides access to meeting records of the Principal organs, beginning in the mid-1980s, by country or organization, speaker, document symbol, or topic.
UNBISnet - Voting Records
Provides the recorded vote for all resolutions adopted by the General Assembly and Security Council, 1946-present. Documents can be searched by resolution symbol, keyword, or date.

Publications

Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs
Analytical studies of the decisions of the UN principal organs under each of the Articles of the Charter ; Comprehensive summary of the decisions of United Nations Organs, together with review of related material, organized by Charter Articles.

UN Yearbook / United Nations
Date: 1946-

Principal reference work of the UN ; provides a detailed overview of the Organization's activities during the course of a year. All the Yearbooks are available online. They provide citation to the documentation and include the full text of resolutions.

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The Anatomy of Decay / Conrad S. M. Mselle
Date: 2011

This is a United Nations memoir that documents in detail the metamorphosis of a United Nations institution, the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, as observed by a diplomat over a period of nearly four decades.
Because progress matters : groundwork for a reform of planning and budgeting at the United Nations / Australia, Mexico, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand
Review of the current budget cycle and recommendations made by a Panel of Experts appointed by nine Member States.
United Nations Handbook / New Zealand. Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Date: 1973-

UN Documentation: Regular Budget

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