Committees
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GA1
1st General Assembly Committee
Disarmament and International Security
The Disarmament and International Security (DISEC) Committee is the General Assembly’s First Committee (GA1) and one of the six committees of the United Nations General Assembly. It includes all United Nations Member States, as under the UN Charter, all member states and observer states of the United Nations are part of the First Committee and have an equal vote. Documents devised by the First Committee require a simple majority (51%) to pass and like other General Assembly Committees is not able to authorize armed interventions, impose sanctions or pass binding resolutions. Like all General Assembly committees the GA1 deals with matters regarding world peace, but focuses on dealing with affairs that threaten to endanger international security and acknowledges all disarmament and international security matters, within the field of the UN Charter.
The First Committee is arguably the most important of the six General Assembly Committees, mainly due to the complex topics being discussed. More than other Committees in the General Assembly, the aim of the DISEC Committee is to present effective solutions, that focus on addressing the nature of the problem to permanently settle the issue.
The first contribution of the GA1 to the United Nations was Resolution 1 regarding the problems raised by the discovery of atomic energy on January 24 1946 which led to the creating of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC).
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GA2
2nd General Assembly Committee
Economical and Financial
The Economic and Financial Committee is the General Assembly’s Second Committee (GA2) and one of the four committees of the United Nations General Assembly. It includes all United Nations Member States, as under the UN Charter, all member states and observer states of the United Nations are part of the Second Committee and have an equal vote. Documents require a simple majority (51%) to pass and like other General Assembly Committees is not able to authorize armed interventions, impose sanctions or pass binding resolutions. Like all General Assembly committees the GA2 deals with matters regarding world peace, but focuses in the area of global finances and economics, within the field of the UN Charter.
The Second Committee is arguably the most important of the six General Assembly Committees, mainly due to the importance of managing finance while keeping the peace between nations. Since our world is meanwhile based on globalisation, including trading, debt between countries and transportation, an issue with finance can often lead to a global catastrophe. The GA2 has the important role of preventing such a catastrophe.
The GA2 is a relatively new committee that is not very common in MUN conferences, however it still is one of the most significant committees in the UN.
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GA3
3rd General Assembly Committee
Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural
The Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee is the General Assembly’s Third Committee (GA3) and one of the six committees of the United Nations General Assembly. It includes all United Nations Member States, as under the UN Charter, all member states and observer states of the United Nations are part of the Third Committee and have an equal vote. Documents devised by the Third Committee require a simple majority (51%) to pass and like other General Assembly Committees is not able to authorise armed interventions, impose sanctions or pass binding resolutions. Like all General Assembly committees the GA3 deals with matters regarding world peace, but focuses on dealing with affairs that threaten humans including reports of the special procedures of the newly established Human Rights Council.
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GA4
4th General Assembly Committee
Special Political and Decolonisation
The Special Political and Decolonization Committee is one of the main Committees of the United Nations General Assembly. It deals with a variety of issues, including those relating to human rights, decolonisation, outer space, peacekeeping, mining, and atomic radiation. In its first years, the Fourth Committee dealt primarily with matters relating to decolonisation (undoing the effects of colonialism) , due to the considerable amount of such happenings and their long-term impact. The Special Political Committee stood as a separate entity to the Fourth Committee, in 1993, the General Assembly adopted resolution 47/233, which merged both. Today, the Committee includes all UN Member States and makes decisions in the form of resolutions, that are subject for final approval by the General Assembly.
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