CHAPTER 2: PLACE AND FORMAT OF COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

Updates to Chapter 2 include new developments relating to open and thematic debates, wrap-up meetings, and informal meeting formats.

Sections

 

 

1. Formats of meetings

 

2. Formal public (open) meetings   Updated on 4 Oct. 2015

 

3. Formal private (closed) meetings  Updated on 5 Nov. 2019

 

4. ‘Periodic meetings’, summits, and high-level meetings   Updated on 13 Oct. 2019

 

5. Thematic debates   Updated on 30 July 2016

 

6. ‘Orientation debates’ 

 

7. Wrap-up meetings     Updated on 25 June 2017

 

8. Meetings away from Headquarters

 

9. Place of meeting at Headquarters    Updated on 3 Apr. 2019

 

10. Informal consultations of the whole   Updated on 15 Sept. 2016

 

11. ‘Arria-formula’ meetings and ‘Somavía-formula’ meetings   Updated on 15 June 2019

 

12. Informal interactive dialogues or discussions

 

13. Other informal formats   Updated on 6 Nov. 2019

 

14. Interpretation and translation