First session of the United Nations General Assembly explained

Date:
Venues:	Westminster Central Hall, London and Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, New York City
Participants:	United Nations Member States
President:	Paul-Henri Spaak
Precedes:	2nd
Compactnav:	yes

The first session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on 10 January 1946 at the Methodist Central Hall in London.

Gladwyn Jebb, executive secretary of the UN, notified Dr. Eduardo Zuleta Angel, head of the Colombian delegation to the UN and chairman of the Preparatory Commission of the United Nations, called the 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).^[1]

The second meeting of the first session opened in Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, New York, on 23 October 1946.^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Verbatim Record of the First Plenary Session of the UN General Assembly . 23 September 2013 . 14 July 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140714121042/http://daccess-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/NL4/602/75/PDF/NL460275.pdf?OpenElement . dead .
2. Web site: October 23 1946 CE – The United Nations General Assembly Convenes in New York for the First Time . This Day in World History .