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
12. Informal interactive dialogues or discussions Updated on 30 January 2020
13. Other informal formats Updated on 30 Nov. 2019
14. Interpretation and translation