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=== Committees ===

==== Main committees ====
The main committees are [[ordinal number|ordinally numbered]], 1–6:<ref name="main" />
*The First Committee: [[United Nations General Assembly First Committee|Disarmament and International Security]] is concerned with disarmament and related international security questions
*The Second Committee: [[United Nations General Assembly Second Committee|Economic and Financial]] is concerned with economic questions
*The Third Committee: [[United Nations General Assembly Third Committee|Social, Cultural, and Humanitarian]] deals with social and humanitarian issues
*The Fourth Committee: [[United Nations General Assembly Fourth Committee|Special Political and Decolonisation]] deals with a variety of political subjects not dealt with by the First Committee, as well as with decolonization
*The Fifth Committee: [[United Nations General Assembly Fifth Committee|Administrative and Budgetary]] deals with the administration and budget of the United Nations
*The Sixth Committee: [[United Nations General Assembly Sixth Committee|Legal]] deals with legal matters

The roles of many of the main committees have changed over time. Until the late 1970s, the First Committee was the Political and Security Committee and there was also a sufficient number of additional "political" matters that an additional, unnumbered main committee, called the Special Political Committee, also sat. The Fourth Committee formerly handled Trusteeship and Decolonization matters. With the decreasing number of such matters to be addressed as the [[United Nations Trust Territories|trust territories]] attained independence and the [[decolonization]] movement progressed, the functions of the Special Political Committee were merged into the Fourth Committee during the 1990s.

Each main committee consists of all the members of the General Assembly. Each elects a chairman, three vice chairmen, and a [[rapporteur]] at the outset of each regular General Assembly session.

==== Other committees ====
[[File:RIAN archive 828797 Mikhail Gorbachev addressing UN General Assembly session.jpg|thumb|Soviet leader [[Mikhail Gorbachev]] addressing the UN General Assembly in December 1988]]
These are not numbered. According to the General Assembly website, the most important are:<ref name="main">{{cite web |url=https://www.un.org/en/ga/maincommittees/index.shtml |title=Main Committees |website=United Nations General Assembly |publisher=United Nations |access-date=19 June 2018 |archive-date=23 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023120644/http://www.un.org/en/ga/maincommittees/index.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[United nations credentials committee|Credentials Committee]]{{spaced ndash}}This committee is charged with ensuring that the [[credential#Diplomacy|diplomatic credentials]] of all UN representatives are in order. The Credentials Committee consists of nine Member States elected early in each regular General Assembly session.
* [[United Nations General Committee|General Committee]]{{spaced ndash}}This is a supervisory committee entrusted with ensuring that the whole meeting of the Assembly goes smoothly. The General Committee consists of the president and vice presidents of the current General Assembly session and the chairman of each of the six Main Committees.

Other committees of the General Assembly are [[Enumeration|enumerated]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.un.org/en/ga/about/subsidiary/committees.shtml |title=Subsidiary Organs of the General Assembly: Committees |website=United Nations General Assembly |publisher=United Nations |access-date=19 June 2018 |archive-date=4 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181104171508/http://www.un.org/en/ga/about/subsidiary/committees.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>