WEB DESK
The UN General Assembly meetings scheduled for the next few months have been postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. A senior official of the UN said the Member States are holding discussions on how to proceed with the high-level annual UNGA session in September.
Earlier this month, President of the 74th session of UN General Assembly (PGA) Tijjani Muhammad-Bande had decided to postpone the GA meetings scheduled for April and May ‘in light of the d guidance severely limiting in-person meetings, as a result of the rapidly evolving COVID-19 pandemic.’
All in-person meetings of General Assembly mandated processes, scheduled to be held between April 17 and the end of May also stand cancelled.