Sixty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly
| Sixty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly | |
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12 September 2006 – 17 September 2007
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President of the 61st General Assembly, Haya Rashed Al Khalifa | |
| Host country | United Nations |
| Participants | United Nations Member States |
| President | Haya Rashed Al Khalifa |
| Secretary-General | Kofi Annan |
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The sixty-first session of the United Nations General Assembly opened on 12 September 2006 at the UN Headquarters in New York. The president was Haya Rashed Al Khalifa[1], Legal Adviser to the Royal Court of Bahrain. She was only the third woman to serve as President of the General Assembly, and the first since the twenty-fourth session in 1969.[2]
The theme of the 61st session was "Implementing a global partnership for development".