First session of the United Nations General Assembly

First session of the United Nations General Assembly
10 January – 14 February 1946 (1946-01-10 – 1946-02-14)
23 October – 15 December 1946 (1946-10-23 – 1946-12-15)
President of the 1st General Assembly, Paul-Henri Spaak
VenuesWestminster Central Hall, London, UK, and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, New York City, US
ParticipantsUnited Nations Member States
PresidentPaul-Henri Spaak
Secretary-GeneralTrygve Lie

The first session of the United Nations General Assembly was the inaugural meeting of the UN's principal deliberative, policy-making and representative organ. It opened on 10 January 1946 at the Methodist Central Hall in London, and brought together representatives of the original 51 member states under the recently ratified United Nations Charter.

Dr. Eduardo Zuleta Ángel, head of the Colombian delegation to the UN and chairman of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, called the first meeting to order. Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium was elected the first president of the General Assembly in a 28–23 vote, prevailing over Trygve Lie (who went on to be the first Secretary-General of the UN).

The second meeting of the first session opened in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, New York, on 23 October 1946.

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