Document symbol

The document symbol is the unique identifier assigned to every official United Nations document. It identifies the organ associated with the document as well as the type of document.

Syntax
Each document symbol has a number of components, separated by forward slashes (/). The first component identifies the associated organ, as such:
 * A:	General Assembly
 * S:	Security Council
 * E:	Economic and Social Council
 * ST:	Secretariat

The final component of the document symbol can be one or more of the following modifiers:
 * Addendum
 * /Add.(number)
 * Amendment: Alteration by decision of a competent authority, of a portion of an adopted formal text
 * /Amend.(number)
 * Corrigendum
 * /Corr.(number)
 * Revision (replacing texts previously issued)
 * /Rev.(number)
 * Reissuance of a document for technical reasons

General Assembly documents

 * Report
 * A/(session)/(number)
 * Resolution
 * A/RES/(session)/(resolution number)
 * Proposal
 * A/(session)/L.(number)
 * Official record
 * A/(session)/PV.(meeting number)


 * Committee document
 * A/C.(committee number)/(session)/(number)
 * Committee proposal
 * A/C.(committee number)/(session)/L.(number)
 * Committee summary record
 * A/C.(committee number)/(session)/SR.(meeting number)


 * Subsidiary body document
 * A/AC.(subsidiary body number)/(year)/(document number)

General Assembly documents with standardized symbols
Some General Assembly documents are issued regularly with the same number, in the format A/(session)/(number). These are as follows:

Security Council documents

 * Document
 * S/(year)/(number)
 * Resolution
 * S/RES/(resolution number)((year))
 * Presidential statement
 * S/PRST/(year)/(number)
 * Meeting records
 * S/PV.(meeting number)

Secretariat documents

 * Secretary-General's Bulletin
 * ST/SGB/(year)/(number)
 * Administrative instruction
 * ST/IC/(year)/(number)
 * Information circular
 * ST/IC/(year)/(number)
 * Assessment of Member States
 * ST/ADM/SER.B/(number)

Accessing documents
Official documents can be located through the Official Document System (ODS) website: documents.un.org.

If you know the document symbol of the official document you are looking for, you can access it directly from undocs.org/(document symbol)