Sixty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly

Sixty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly
12 September 2006 – 17 September 2007 (2006-09-12 – 2007-09-17)
President of the 61st General Assembly, Haya Rashed Al Khalifa
Host country United Nations
ParticipantsUnited Nations Member States
PresidentHaya Rashed Al Khalifa
Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan

The sixty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on 12 September 2006 at the UN Headquarters in New York. The president was Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, Legal Adviser to the Royal Court of Bahrain. She was only the third woman to serve as President of the General Assembly, and the first since the twenty-fourth session in 1969.

The theme of the 61st session was "Implementing a global partnership for development".

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