Sixty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly

The sixty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on 12 September 2006 at the UN Headquarters in New York. The president was Haya Rashed Al Khalifa^[1], Legal Adviser to the Royal Court of Bahrain. She was only the third woman to serve as President of the General Assembly, and the first since the twenty-fourth session in 1969.^[2]

Host country United Nations

ParticipantsUnited Nations Member States

PresidentHaya Rashed Al Khalifa

Secretary-GeneralKofi Annan

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Sixty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly
← 60th 12 September 2006 – 17 September 2007 (2006-09-12 – 2007-09-17) 62nd →
President of the 61st General Assembly, Haya Rashed Al Khalifa
Host country	United Nations
Participants	United Nations Member States
President	Haya Rashed Al Khalifa
Secretary-General	Kofi Annan

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The theme of the 61st session was "Implementing a global partnership for development".