Editing United Nations General Assembly (section)

== Resolutions ==
{{See also|United Nations General Assembly resolution|United Nations Document Codes}}
[[File:Mahathir Mohamad addressing the United Nations General Assembly (September 25 2003).jpg|thumb|[[Prime Minister of Malaysia]] [[Mahathir Mohamad]] addressing the United Nations General Assembly on 25 September 2003]]
[[File:Dmitry Medvedev in the United States 24 September 2009-5.jpg|thumb|Russian President [[Dmitry Medvedev]] addresses the 64th session of the UN General Assembly on 24 September 2009.]]
The General Assembly votes on many resolutions brought forth by sponsoring states. These are generally statements symbolizing the sense of the international community about an array of world issues.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://ask.un.org/faq/15010|title=Are UN resolutions binding? – Ask DAG!|website=ask.un.org|language=en|access-date=2020-02-01|archive-date=1 February 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200201031154/http://ask.un.org/faq/15010|url-status=live}}</ref> Most General Assembly resolutions are not enforceable as a legal or practical matter, because the General Assembly lacks enforcement powers with respect to most issues.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations-General-Assembly|title=United Nations General Assembly|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en|access-date=2020-02-01|archive-date=14 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214202343/https://www.britannica.com/topic/United-Nations-General-Assembly|url-status=live}}</ref> The General Assembly has the authority to make final decisions in some areas such as the United Nations budget.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/chapter-iv/index.html|title=Article 17 (1) of Charter of the United Nations|date=17 June 2015|access-date=31 August 2017|archive-date=1 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501150040/https://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/chapter-iv/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

The General Assembly can also refer an issue to the Security Council to put in place a binding resolution.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/un-charter-full-text/|title=Articles 11 (2) and 11 (3) of Charter of the United Nations|date=15 April 2016|access-date=31 August 2017|archive-date=10 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410130442/https://www.un.org/en/sections/un-charter/un-charter-full-text/|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Resolution numbering scheme ===
From the First to the Thirtieth General Assembly sessions, all General Assembly resolutions were numbered consecutively, with the resolution number followed by the session number in Roman numbers (for example, [[:s:United Nations General Assembly Resolution 1514|Resolution 1514 (XV)]], which was the 1514th numbered resolution adopted by the Assembly and was adopted at the Fifteenth Regular Session (1960)). Beginning in the Thirty-First Session, resolutions are numbered by individual session (for example Resolution 41/10 represents the 10th resolution adopted at the Forty-First Session).<ref>{{Cite journal |date=2017-08-02 |title=Annexes |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.18356/a9a4aeed-en |journal=Resolutions and Decisions Adopted by the General Assembly |doi=10.18356/a9a4aeed-en |isbn=9789210605991 |issn=2412-0898}}</ref>