Editing United Nations General Assembly (section)

== History ==
[[File:Methodist.central.hall.london.arp.jpg|thumb|[[Methodist Central Hall, Westminster|Methodist Central Hall]], London, the location of the first meeting of the United Nations General Assembly in 1946<ref name=UN_hist_1941>{{cite web|title=History of United Nations 1941 – 1950 |url=https://www.un.org/en/aboutun/history/1941-1950.shtml |publisher=United Nations |access-date=12 March 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150312020304/http://www.un.org/en/aboutun/history/1941-1950.shtml |archive-date=12 March 2015}}</ref>]]

The first session of the UN General Assembly was convened on 10 January 1946 in the [[Methodist Central Hall, Westminster|Methodist Central Hall]] in [[London]] and included representatives of 51 nations.<ref name=UN_hist_1941 /> Subsequently, until moving to its permanent home in Manhattan in 1951, the Assembly convened at the former [[Queens Museum#Building history|New York City Pavilion]] of the [[1939 New York World's Fair]] in [[Flushing, New York]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/|title=Queens Public Library Digital|website=digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org|access-date=6 December 2022|archive-date=10 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221210042536/http://digitalarchives.queenslibrary.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> On November 29, 1947, the Assembly voted to adopt the [[United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine]] at this venue.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://centerforthehumanities.org/programming/united-nations-queens-a-local-history-of-the-1947-israel-palestine-partition|title=United Nations, Queens: A Local History of the 1947 Israel-Palestine Partition|website=The Center for the Humanities|access-date=6 December 2022|archive-date=6 December 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206092505/https://centerforthehumanities.org/programming/united-nations-queens-a-local-history-of-the-1947-israel-palestine-partition|url-status=live}}</ref> 
[[File:A-Local-History-of-the-1947-Israel-Palestine-Partition.jpg|thumb|The 1947 meeting at the General Assembly meeting place between 1946 and 1951 in Flushing, New York]]

During the 1946–1951 period the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic Social Council also conducted proceedings at the United Nations interim headquarters at [[Lake Success, New York]].<ref name="nyt-1951-05-19">{{Cite news |last=Rosenthal |first=A. M. |date=May 19, 1951 |title=U.N. Vacates Site at Lake Success; Peace Building Back to War Output |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/05/19/archives/un-vacates-site-at-lake-success-peace-building-back-to-war-output.html |access-date=July 26, 2022 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220726230531/https://www.nytimes.com/1951/05/19/archives/un-vacates-site-at-lake-success-peace-building-back-to-war-output.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://untappedcities.com/2021/05/19/united-nations-lake-success/|title=The United Nations Headquarters in Long Island's Lake Success|first=Bella|last=Druckman|date=19 May 2021|website=Untapped New York|access-date=16 January 2023|archive-date=19 May 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210519170543/https://untappedcities.com/2021/05/19/united-nations-lake-success/|url-status=live}}</ref> During this time in 1949, the CBS Television network provided live coverage of these sessions on its ''United Nations in Action'' broadcast series which was produced by the journalist [[Edmund Chester]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/television-broadcast-of-a-new-series-reporting-the-sessions-news-photo/647173796|title=CBS television broadcast of a new series reporting the sessions and...|website=Getty Images|date=2 March 2017 |access-date=16 January 2023|archive-date=13 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113182014/https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/television-broadcast-of-a-new-series-reporting-the-sessions-news-photo/647173796|url-status=live}}</ref>

It moved to the permanent [[Headquarters of the United Nations]] in New York City at the start of its seventh regular annual session, on 14 October 1952. In December 1988, in order to hear [[Yasser Arafat]], the General Assembly organized its 43th session in the [[Palace of Nations]], in [[Geneva]], Switzerland.<ref>{{in lang|fr}} "[https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/geneve-renoue-tradition-ville-paix Genève renoue avec sa tradition de ville de paix], {{Lang|fr|[[Le Temps]]}}, 16 January 2014. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220416124704/https://www.letemps.ch/suisse/geneve-renoue-tradition-ville-paix |date=16 April 2022 }}".</ref>