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Ethics and Transparency

Since her election in June 2018, President Espinosa Garces has committed to the highest standards of transparency and accountability during her Presidency.

Member States worked in close contact with the Presidency of the General Assembly in order to strengthen the accountability, transparency and institutional memory of the Office. Resolution 70/305 on the Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly and its annexes, adopted on 13 September 2016, have been welcomed as a milestone and breakthrough on this process. The 71st and 72nd Session followed recommitted to these newly established procedures with Resolution 71/323 and Resolution 72/313.

On 17 September 2018, H.E. Ms. Maria Fernanda Espinosa Garces became the third President to take an oath of office in which she solemnly declared to truthfully perform the duties and exercise the functions entrusted to her as President of the General Assembly of the United Nations in all loyalty, discretion and conscience, and to discharge these functions and regulate her conduct with the interest of the United Nations only in view and in accordance with the United Nations Charter and the Code of Ethic for the Presidency of the General Assembly, without seeking or accepting any instruction in regard to the performance of her duties from any Government or other source external to the Organization.

The President of the General Assembly is committed to openness and transparency with respect to the financing of her office. President Espinosa will finance her official activities and those of her Office solely through the United Nations regular budget and the Trust Fund of the Office of the President of the General Assembly (OPGA), thus increasing transparency. President Espinosa participates in the Financial Disclosure Programme, which helps to maintain and enhance public trust in the United Nations. She is the second President of the General Assembly to make her personal financial disclosure summary publicly available.

In the interest of transparency and accountability, President Espinosa has made publicly available her personal financial disclosure upon competition of the 73rd Session of the General Assembly. (posted 16 September 2019)

President of the General Assembly-elect, H.E. Ms. María Fernanda Espinosa

Closing Plenary Meeting of the Seventy-second Session of the General Assembly

Code of Ethics

In the understanding that a Code of Ethics for the President of the General Assembly is an important part of the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly, and that such a Code of ethics will strengthen the capacity of the President of the General Assembly to exercise his or her duties and responsibilities whilst enhancing her moral authority, integrity and credibility, Annex 2 of Resolution 70/305 on the Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly contains the Code of Ethics for the President of the General Assembly. The President has requested the members of her office to abide by the same principles and obligations and to bear its content in mind during the discharging of their mandate in the service of the General Assembly.

Code of Ethics for the President of the General Assembly

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