UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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Context:

• United Nations General Assembly has adopted an India-sponsored resolution on multilingualism that mentions the Hindi language for the first time.
• The resolution passed urges the United Nations to continue spreading vital communications and messages in both official and non-official languages, including Hindi.

United Nations General Assembly (UNGA):

• It is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations(UN).
• It serves as the main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ of the UN
• Its powers, composition, functions, and procedures are set out in Chapter IV of the United Nations Charter.
• The UNGA is responsible for the UN budget, appointing the non-permanent members to the Security Council, appointing the Secretary-General of the United Nations, receiving reports from other parts of the UN system, and making recommendations through resolutions.
• It also establishes numerous subsidiary organs to advance or assist in its broad mandate.
• The UNGA is the only UN organ wherein all member states have equal representation.
• It can reconvene for special and emergency special sessions.
• Voting in the General Assemblyon certain important questions—namely recommendations on peace and security; budgetary concerns; and the election, admission, suspension or expulsion of members—is by a two-thirds majority of those present and voting. Other questions are decided by a simple majority. Each member country has one vote.
• Apart from the approval of budgetary matters, including the adoption of a scale of assessment, Assembly resolutions are not binding on the members.
• All 193 members of the United Nations are members of the General Assembly, with the addition of Holy See and Palestine as observer states.

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