The eighty-first session
Session opened8 September 2026
Session closes7 September 2027
Engagements held22
Meetings still to come19
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The 81st Session will be rich with milestone events that will test our collective resolve ¡ª from addressing the existential threats of sea-level rise, to pandemic preparedness, to commemorating the Right to Development at forty, nuclear disarmament, and the Durban legacy at twenty-five. Each is more than a date on a calendar. Each is an opportunity to demonstrate that multilateralism can deliver concrete results.

H.E. Dr. Khalilur Rahman

Vision statement

The Session Calendar


Every meeting and engagement of the eighty-first session in one list, earliest first: the President’s own engagements, the meetings of High-Level Week, and the high-level and commemorative meetings, dialogues, briefings and conferences the General Assembly has mandated for the session. Each row cites the resolution or decision that mandates the meeting, where there is one, and links to the meeting’s own page where it has one.

Dates are as the mandate gives them, and no meeting shows a time of day. Where a mandate fixes no date, the period it sets is shown at the foot of the list and the day is announced in the Journal of the United Nations nearer the time. Meetings mandated for the eighty-second session and beyond are not listed. Status as at 29 September 2026.

When
Meeting
Status
September 2026
Wed 2 Sep
Meeting with the Permanent Representative of Uzbekistan
UNITAR Office, 801 United Nations Plaza, New York
Held
Wed 2 Sep
Meeting with the Permanent Representative of Qatar
UNITAR Office, 801 United Nations Plaza, New York
Held
Wed 2 Sep
Meeting with the Permanent Representative of Brazil
UNITAR Office, 801 United Nations Plaza, New York
Held
Wed 2 Sep
Meeting with the Permanent Representative of Japan
UNITAR Office, 801 United Nations Plaza, New York
Held
Thu 3 Sep
Meeting with the Permanent Representative of China
UNITAR Office, 801 United Nations Plaza, New York
Held
Thu 3 Sep
Meeting with the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea
UNITAR Office, 801 United Nations Plaza, New York
Held
Thu 3 Sep
Meeting with the Permanent Representative of Malaysia
UNITAR Office, 801 United Nations Plaza, New York
Held
Fri 4 Sep
Meeting with the Secretary-General
United Nations Headquarters, New York
Held
Tue 8 Sep
41st Annual International Prayer Breakfast
Delegates Dining Room, United Nations Headquarters
Held
Tue 8 Sep
Forum of Small States: ¡°Back to School¡± morning coffee
Permanent Mission of Singapore to the United Nations, New York
Held
Tue 8 Sep
Held
Tue 8 Sep
2026 United Nations Prayer Service
Church of the Holy Family, 315 East 47th Street, New York
Held
Wed 9 Sep
Peace Bell Ceremony
Japanese Garden, United Nations Headquarters
Held
Wed 9 Sep
General Committee of the eighty-first session
United Nations Headquarters, New York
Held
Wed 9 Sep
Held
Wed 9 Sep
Launch of the 2026¨C27 United Nations Handbook
American Australian Association, 600 Third Avenue, New York
Held
Thu 10 Sep
Reception: ¡°Prosperity through Peace¡±
General Assembly Plaza, United Nations Headquarters
Held
Fri 11 Sep
United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation
United Nations Headquarters, New York
Held
High-Level Week
22–29 September 2026 · the general debate and the five high-level meetings over which the President presided. Each links to its own page, with the remarks, the programme and the letters convening it.
22–28 Sep
General debate
General debate of the eighty-first session of the General Assembly
22–26 and 28 September · United Nations Headquarters, New York
Held
24 Sep
Held
decision 78/558
25 Sep
High-level meeting
High-level Meeting on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response
United Nations Headquarters, New York
Held
Today · 29 September 2026
December 2026
4 Dec
Informal plenary meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures
Mandated annually
Upcoming
8–10 Dec
United Nations Water Conference to Accelerate the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 6
United Arab Emirates
Upcoming
14 Dec
Informal plenary meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day Against Colonialism in All Its Forms and Manifestations
Mandated annually
Upcoming
March 2027
21 Mar
Commemorative meeting for the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
Mandated annually
Upcoming
25 Mar
Commemorative meeting to mark the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Mandated annually
Upcoming
25–27 Mar
Comprehensive high-level midterm review of the implementation of the Doha Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries
Qatar
Upcoming
July 2027
18 Jul
Informal commemorative meeting for Nelson Mandela International Day
Upcoming
August 2027
29 Aug
High-level plenary meeting to commemorate and promote the International Day against Nuclear Tests
Mandated annually
Upcoming
Date to be announced
By January 2027
Two-day preparatory meeting on the comprehensive high-level midterm review of the implementation of the Doha Programme of Action
Upcoming
First quarter 2027
Informal briefing on the Group of 20
Mandated annually
Upcoming
May 2027
Informal interactive dialogues with candidates for the position of President of the General Assembly
Mandated annually
Upcoming
By end May 2027
Interactive multi-stakeholder hearing on universal health coverage
Upcoming
September 2027
High-Level Forum on a Culture of Peace
Mandated annually
Upcoming
2027
One-day high-level meeting to support effective preparations for the Modalities of the 2028 United Nations Conference on the Final Comprehensive Review of the Implementation of the Objectives of the International Decade for Action, ¡°Water for Sustainable Development¡±, 2018¨C2028
Upcoming
2027
Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance
New York · Mandated annually
Upcoming
Eighty-first session
High-level interactive dialogue on culture and sustainable development
Upcoming
Eighty-first session
Meeting on middle-income countries agenda
Upcoming
Eighty-first session
High-level debate on the theme ¡°Advancing justice for children in crime prevention and criminal justice efforts¡±
Upcoming
Eighty-first session
Annual briefing by the Head of the Independent Institution on Missing Persons on the implementation of its mandate
Mandated annually
Upcoming

The conference and meeting calendar of the United Nations is at . The daily programme of meetings at Headquarters is in the .

Official Sources


What appears on this page: the meetings of the General Assembly the President convenes or presides over — the general debate, the high-level and commemorative meetings the Assembly mandates by resolution, the informal consultations the Office convenes — and the President’s own engagements with Member States, observances and ceremonies. Meetings are listed once the Office has confirmed them, and by date only.