ThinkstockThe UN General Assembly meetings scheduled for the next few months have been postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the member states are holding discussions on how to proceed with the high-level annual UNGA session in September, a senior official has said. The 4th Conference of Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones and Mongolia, 2020, has been postponed to a period in 2021 to be decided by the General Assembly at its next session. The conference was scheduled to be held at United Nations Headquarters on April 24. Deputy spokesman for the Secretary-General Farhan Haq was asked at the virtual press briefing on Monday if there were discussions about the possible postponement or shortening the format of the annual high-level General Assembly session in September. All in-person meetings of General Assembly mandated processes, scheduled to be held between April 17 and the end of May also stand cancelled.

Source: The Telegraph April 14, 2020 06:45 UTC