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==== 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.