UN Document Symbols
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First Component
- This symbol usually reflects the parent organ issuing the document, or the organ to which the document is being submitted.
The five principal organs are:
| A/ | General Assembly |
| S/ | Security Council |
| E/ | Economic and Social Council |
| T/ | Trusteeship Council |
| ST/ | Secretariat |
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Examples
- A/RES/50/221 — Resolution of the General Assembly, 50th Session, Resolution 221
- S/RES/1019 — Resolution 1019 adopted by the Security Council
Special symbols have been established for certain bodies, eg:
| CRC/ | Convention on the Rights of the Child |
| DP/ | United Nations Development Programme |
| TD/ | United Nations Conference on Trade and Development |
| UNEP/ | United Nations Environment Programme |
| AT/ | United Nations Administrative Tribunal |
| CAT/ | Convention against Torture |
| CEDAW/ | Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women |
| CCPR/ | International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights |
| ID/ | United Nations Industrial Development Organization |
| WFC/ | World Food Council |
| HRC/ | Human Rights Council |
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Examples
- CEDAW/C/1996 — UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, Committee document, 1996.
- CRC/C/2000 — Document of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, 2000.
- CAT/C/SR.209 — Committee for the Convention against Torture. Summary Record of the 209th meeting.
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Secondary and Tertiary Components
Documents of subsidiary organs or bodies contain the symbol for the parent body (eg 'A' for the General Assembly), followed by one of the following secondary or tertiary components:
| /AC/ | Ad hoc committee or similar body |
| /C/ | Standing/permanent/main/sessional committee |
| /CN/ | Commission |
| /CONF/ | Conference |
| /GC/ | Governing council |
| /PC/ | Preparatory committee |
| /PCN/ | Preparatory commission |
| /SC/ | Subcommittee |
| /Sub/ | Subcommission |
| /WG/ | Working Group |
| /WP/ | Working Party |
NOTE: These symbols are usually numbered in the order of their establishment or convocation.
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Example
- E/CN.4/1996/71 — Economic and Social Commission on Human Rights, 1996
The documents for some subsidiary organs bear a symbol consisting of the symbol of the parent body, followed by the acronym of the subsidiary organ:
| A/SPC/ | Special Political Committee of the General Assembly |
| E/ESCAP/ | Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific |
| E/INCB/ | International Narcotics Control Board of Economic and Social Council |
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Special Components
These reflect the nature of the document:
| /BUR/ | General Committee documents |
| /DEC/ | Texts of decisions |
| /CRP/ | Conference room paper |
| /INF/ | Information series (eg lists of participants) |
| /MIN. | Minutes |
| /L. | Limited distribution (ie generally draft documents) |
| /NGO/ | Statements by non-governmental organisations |
| /PET/ | Petitions |
| /PRST/ | Statements by the President of the Security Council |
| /PV/ | Verbatim records of meetings |
| /R. | Restricted distribution; restricted access |
| /RES/ | Adopted Resolutions |
| /SR. | Summary records of meetings |
| /WP/ | Working paper |
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Examples
- A/CN.10/INF/24 — General Assembly Commission, Information series
- A/C.2/50/SR.39 — General Assembly Sessional Committee, 50th session, Summary record number 39
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Final Component
This appears as a suffix to a symbol and reflects modifications to the original text:
| /Add. | Addendum (addition of text to the main document) |
| /Amend. | Alteration of a portion of an adopted text |
| /Corr. | Corrigendum (alternation to correct errors, revise wording or reorganize text) |
| /Rev. | Revision (a new text that supersedes and replaces that of a previously issued document) |
| /Summary | Summarised version |
| /Excerpt | Re-issue of an excerpt of a document |
| /* | Re-issuance of a document for technical reasons |
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Examples
- E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.2/1987/WP.4/Add.1 — Economic and Social Council, Commission of Human Rights, Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, Working Group on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, 1987, Working Paper number 4, Addendum number 1
- UNEP/GC.18/29/Corr.1 — United Nations Environment Program, Governing Council, 18th session, Document number 29, corrigendum number 1
