Statements made during UN meetings may be issued as documents called meeting records. There are two types of meeting records:
Verbatim Record (S/PV.6826, 30 August 2012)
Summary Record (A/C.4/66/SR.10, 8 Feb. 2012)
Meeting records are not issued for all UN meetings. Principal organs and selected subsidiaries may have either verbatim or summary records, but not both.
If a body is not entitled to meeting record coverage, information about the meetings may be found in:
Press releases are available online.
The Index to Speeches, both online and in print, provides citation to speeches and full text links when available, for:
From the 1st session (1946) through the 30th session (1975), all General Assembly meeting records were consecutively numbered.
| A/PV.183 | 183rd meeting | 3rd regular session | 10 Dec. 1948 | adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, A/RES/217 (III) |
| A/PV.562 | 562nd meeting | 1st emergency special session | 1 Nov. 1956 | adoption of resolution 997, A/RES/997 (ES-I) |
| A/PV.2229 | 2229th meeting | 6th special session | 1 May 1974 | adoption of the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order, A/RES/3201 (S-VI) |
Since the 31st session (1976), the session information has been included in the symbol of meeting records.
| A/60/PV.8 | 8th meeting | 60th regular session | 16 Sept. 2005 | adoption of the 2005 World Summit Outcome, A/RES/60/1 |
| A/ES-8/PV.12 | 12th meeting | 8th emergency special session | 14 Sept. 1981 | adoption of resolution on the Question of Namibia, A/RES/ES-8/2 |
| A/S-23/PV.10 + A/S-23/PV.10(Resumption 1) | 10th meeting | 23rd special session | 10 June 2000 | adoption of the Political Declaration (on Women), A/RES/S-23/2 |
Meeting records are usually published weeks or months after the meeting. For information about recent meetings, check the Press Releases for General Assembly meeting coverage.
Official voting information can be retrieved from the record of the meeting at which the vote was taken.
The Main Committees of the General Assembly are all entitled to meeting record coverage.
From the 1st session (1946) through the 30th session (1975), all General Assembly meeting records were consecutively numbered.
Official voting information can be retrieved from the record of the meeting at which the vote was taken. There may be recorded votes in committee meetings, even if the final resolution is adopted without vote in the plenary.