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Context: Prime UNGA committee endorses India’s resolution for granting Observer Status to International Solar Alliance.

• The 76th session of the UN General Assembly will now have to formally adopt recommendation of the Sixth Committee.
• Adoption of the resolution will reflect the commitment and resolve of member states to the noble cause of renewable energy and "usher in a new era of green energy diplomacy”.
• It will enable ISA to provide targeted inputs to current and future United Nations processes based on grassroot level experiences from its country programmes, its research and public private cooperation activities and its global knowledge sharing activities.
• The co-sponsors include Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Cuba, Denmark, Egypt, Fiji, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Maldives, Mauritius, Myanmar, New Zealand, Oman, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saudi Arabia, Trinidad and Tobago, the United Arab Emirates and the United Kingdom.
• The United Nations General Assembly may grant Permanent Observer Status to non-member states, international organisations and other entities.
• The International Solar Alliance was opened for signature as an international treaty-based organisation in November 2016 and the agreement entered into force on December 6, 2017.
• The alliance of solar-resource rich countries with its membership was open to those 121 U.N. member states that lie fully or partially between the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
• This was further amended at the First Assembly of the ISA, to expand the scope of ISA membership to all U.N. member states.

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