AGLC4 Rule 9.2.5: Committee Number

A document of a General Assembly committee gives the committee's number as an ordinal followed by Comm. The General Assembly has six main committees, numbered First to Sixth.

AGLC4 page 145

Format

Quoted from the Guide, page 145
Ordinal Number of Committee Comm

A boxed element is filled in with the source's details; everything outside a box is written exactly as shown.

Formatting

  • The committee number is an ordinal in figures with superscript letters.
  • A single space and the abbreviation Comm follow, with no full stop.
  • A comma follows.
  • The committee number comes after the official records and before the session.

Example

Quoted from the Guide, page 145
  1. 12
    Summary Record of the 35th Meeting, UN GAOR, 3rd Comm, 47th sess, 35th mtg, Agenda items 94 and 96 UN Doc A/C.3/47/SR.35 (4 December 1992) 11 [57].

Forms in the rule

Quoted from the Guide, page 145
  • ‘2nd Comm’

See also

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