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 15 Apr. 2020

 

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 30 January 2020

 

8. Meetings away from Headquarters   Updated on 7 Jan. 2020

 

9. Place of meeting at Headquarters    Updated on 12 Sept. 2020

 

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

 

11. ‘Arria-formula’ meetings and ‘Somavía-formula’ meetings   Updated on 30 April 2020

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12. Informal interactive dialogues or discussions  Updated on 30 January 2020

 

13. Other informal formats   Updated on 30 Nov. 2019

 

14. Interpretation and translation