Institutional and administrative matters

In 2004, the United Nations continued to address administrative and institutional matters in order to ensure the efficient functioning of the Organization. The General Assembly resumed its fifty-eighth session and its tenth emergency special session; it opened its fifty-ninth session on 14 September. The Assembly granted observer status to the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, the Southern African Development Community, the Collective Security Treaty Organization, the Economic Community of West African States, the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation. The Assembly also set out modalities for the participation of the Holy See in UN work.

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