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:

Number	Report	In use	Notes
1	Report of the Secretary-General of the Organization	Yes
2	Report of the Security Council	Yes
3	Report of the Economic and Social Council	Yes
4	Report of the International Court of Justice	Yes
5	Report of the Board of Auditors	Yes	Issued in multiple volumes
6	Proposed programme budget	Yes	Issued with multiple addenda
7	Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions	Yes	Issued with multiple addenda
8	Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme	Yes	UN Habitat
9	Report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board	Yes
10	Report of the International Law Commission	Yes
11	Report of the Committee on Contributions	Yes
12	Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees	Yes
13	Report of the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East	Yes	UNRWA
14		No
15		No
16	Report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination	Yes
17	Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law	Yes
18	Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination	Yes
19	Report of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations	Yes	a.k.a. C34
20	Report of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space	Yes
21	Report of the Committee on Information	Yes
23	Report of the Special Committee on the Situation with Regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples	Yes	a.k.a C24
24	Report of the United Nations Council for Namibia	No	Body defunct
25	Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme	No	Document now issued under UNEP symbol
26	Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country	Yes
27	Report of the Conference on Disarmament	Yes
28	Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the World Disarmament Conference	No	Body defunct
29	Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean	Yes
30	Report of the International Civil Service Commission	Yes
32	Report of the Committee on Conferences	Yes
33	Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and the Strengthening of the Organization	Yes
34	Report of the Joint Inspection Unit	Yes
35	Report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People	Yes
36	Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights	Yes
37	Report of the Intergovernmental Committee on Science and Technology for Development	No	body defunct
38	Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women	Yes
39	Report of the High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries	No	Later reports issued under TCDC symbol
40	Report of the Human Rights Committee	Yes
41	Report of the Special Committee on Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Principle of Non-Use of Force in International Relations	No	Body defunct
42	Report of the Disarmament Commission	Yes
43
44	Report of the Committee against Torture	Yes
45
46	Report of the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation	Yes
47
48	Report of the Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers And their Familes	Yes
49	Resolutions and Decisions adopted by the General Assembly	Yes	Issued in multiple volumes
50	Preliminary list of items to be included in the provisional agenda	Yes
51
52
53	Report of the Human Rights Council	Yes
54
55	Report of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities	Yes
56	Report of the Committee on Enforced Disappearances	Yes
100	Annotated preliminary lists of items to be included in the provisional agenda	Yes
150	Provisional agenda of the ### session of the General Assembly	Yes
200	List of supplementary items proposed for inclusion in the agenda	Yes
250	Organization of the ### regular session of the General Assembly	Yes
300	Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter	Yes

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)