Structure of the General Assembly
United Nations organisation chart: a General Assembly box at centre with six main committees on the left, procedural and standing committees below, and ad hoc commission and committees on the right, plus a text block on voting procedure. It is an explanatory diagram, and the technique is faint here, the closest being transfer through the look of institutional order.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1946
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- United Nations, Department of Public Information
- Region
- North America
- Country
- Transnational
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- No single regime or leader
- Leader
- No single regime or leader
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Warn or inform
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
United Nations, Department of Public Information. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1826 (NAID 515505).
Text on the object
STRUCTURE OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT THE OPENING OF THE SECOND PART OF ITS FIRST SESSION MAIN COMMITTEES (All Members Represented) First Committee POLITICAL AND SECURITY (including the regulation of armaments) Second Committee ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL Third Committee SOCIAL, HUMANITARIAN AND CULTURAL Fourth Committee TRUSTEESHIP Fifth Committee ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUDGETARY Sixth Committee LEGAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY Meets annually (and in special session at request of Security Council or of majority of Members). Each Member has one vote* and may not have more than five representatives. Annually elects President, 7 Vice-Presidents. Officers, first and second part of first session: President, M. Paul-Henri Spaak (Belgium): Vice-Presidents, chief representatives of China, France, Union of South Africa, U.S.S.R., U.K., U.S.A., Venezuela. PROCEDURAL COMMITTEES GENERAL COMMITTEE president, 7 vice-presidents, chairmen of 6 main committees CREDENTIALS COMMITTEE (9 members) STANDING COMMITTEES ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON ADMINISTRATIVE AND BUDGETARY QUESTIONS (to be constituted during second part of first session) (9 members) COMMITTEE ON CONTRIBUTIONS (10 members) AD HOC COMMISSION AND COMMITTEES PERMANENT HEADQUARTERS COMMITTEE (all members of General Assembly represented) LEAGUE OF NATIONS COMMITTEE (all members of General Assembly represented) COMMITTEE ON U.N.R.R.A. (11 members) COMMITTEE ON NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE U.S.A. (10 members) COMMITTEE ON NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE TRANSFER OF LEAGUE OF NATIONS ASSETS, AND THE PREMISES IN THE PEACE PALACE AT THE HAGUE (8 members) HEADQUARTERS COMMISSION (9 members) *VOTING PROCEDURE ON IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Recommendations on maintenance of international peace and security. Elections to Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council. Admission, expulsion, suspension of rights and privileges of Members. Operation of trusteeship system. Budgetary questions. 2/3 MAJORITY OF MEMBERS PRESENT AND VOTING ON OTHER QUESTIONS: Including determination of additional categories of questions to be decided by 2/3 majority. SIMPLE MAJORITY OF MEMBERS PRESENT AND VOTING ISSUED BY UNITED NATIONS, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INFORMATION
