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Millennium Summit
6-8 September 2000

The Millennium Assembly of The United Nations

On 17 December 1998, the General Assembly adopted resolution 53/202 by which it decided to convene the Millennium Summit of the United Nations as an integral part of the Millennium Assembly of the United Nations. The Summit opened at United Nations Headquarters in New York on 6 September 2000 (resolution 53/239).  

On 15 March 2000, the General Assembly adopted resolution 54/254 by which it decided that the Summit will be held from 6 to 8 September 2000 under the overall "The Role of the United Nations in the twenty-first century". It also decided that the Summit will be composed of plenary meetings and of four interactive round-table sessions, with each interactive session to be held in concurrence with a plenary meeting, and that the country of the President of the fifty-fourth session (Namibia) and the country of the President of the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly would jointly preside over the Summit.

The General Assembly further decided on 10 May 2000 on the schedule of the Summit, as well as the modalities for the establishment of the list of speakers for the plenary meetings and the organization of the round-table meetings (resolution 54/261).

On 11 August 2000, the General Assembly decided that Mr. Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister of Singapore, Mr. Aleksander Kwasniewski, President of Poland, Mr. Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias, President of Venezuela, and Mr. Abdelaziz Bouteflika, President of Algeria, would each chair one round-table meeting (A/RES/54/281).

The General Assembly also decided that, without prejudice to other organizations which have observer status in the General Assembly, a representative of each of the following organizations may be included in the list of speakers for the plenary meetings of the Summit: League of Arab States, Organization of African Unity, European Commission, Organization of the Islamic Conference, Conference of Presiding Officers of National Parliaments, and the Millennium Forum.

It further decided that a representative of the International Committee of the Red Cross and a representative of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta may also be included in the list of speakers for the plenary meetings of the Millennium Summit.