What is the process used for submitting draft resolutions?
Once general discussion of an item has finished in formal meetings, the Committee holds informal consultations (with interpretation) under the chairmanship of a designated coordinator. Informal consultations begin with question-and-answers with the relevant Secretariat officials. The coordinator then distributes a basic draft proposal for consideration by the Member States. The coordinator requests delegations to provide contributions for inclusion in the text by a deadline. The Committee then considers the draft proposed by the coordinator, containing the inputs received, in informal consultations. Some items require lengthy negotiations and, where difficulties arise, the Committee resorts to informal informals (without interpretation). When consensus emerges, the proposals are “adopted” in an informal meeting and only then are they issued in the “L” series for action. After draft resolutions or decisions are issued as “L” documents, they are adopted at a formal meeting of the Committ
