| United Nations | A/50/252 |
General Assembly
Distr. GENERAL
22 September 1995
ORIGINAL:
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Fiftieth session
ALLOCATION OF AGENDA ITEMS FOR THE FIFTIETH
REGULAR SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Adopted by the General Assembly at its 3rd plenary meeting,
on 22 September 1995
95-28802 (E) 260995/...
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Plenary meetings
1.Opening of the session by the Chairman of the delegation of Cote
d'Ivoire (item 1).
2.Minute of silent prayer or meditation (item 2).
3.Credentials of representatives to the fiftieth session of the General
Assembly (item 3):
(a)Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee;
(b)Report of the Credentials Committee.
4. Election of the President of the General Assembly (item 4).
5.Election of the officers of the Main Committees (item 5).
6.Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly (item 6).
7.Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of
the Charter of the United Nations (item 7).
8.Adoption of the agenda and organization of work: reports of the General
Committee (item 8).
9. General debate (item 9).
10.Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization (item
10).
11.Report of the Security Council (item 11).
12.Report of the Economic and Social Council (chapters I, II, V (section
A), VI (section N), XIII and XIV) (item 12). The chapters of the report
listed below have been referred also to the Second, Third and Fifth
Committees, as follows:
(a) Chapters I and XIV ........................... Second, Third and
Fifth
Committees
(b) Chapter II ................................... Second Committee
13.Report of the International Court of Justice (item 13).
14.Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (item 14). The
General Assembly decided that the relevant paragraphs of the annual report
of the International Atomic Energy Agency (A/50/360) would be drawn to the
attention of the First Committee in connection with its consideration of
item 70.
15. Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs (item 15):
(a)Election of five non-permanent members of the Security Council;
(b)Election of eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council.
16.Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections
(item 16):
(a)Election of twenty-nine members of the Governing Council of the United
Nations Environment Programme;
(b)Election of twelve members of the World Food Council;
(c)Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme and
Coordination.
17.Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other
appointments (item 17): For sub-items (a) to (e), see Fifth Committee,
item 32.
(f)Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences.
18.Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to
Colonial Countries and Peoples (item 18). The General Assembly decided to
refer to the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth
Committee) chapters of the report of the Special Committee (A/50/23)
relating to specific Territories so that the Assembly might deal in plenary
meeting with the question of the implementation of the Declaration as a
whole.
19.Admission of new Members to the United Nations (item 19).
20.Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief
assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance
(item 20):
(a)Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance
of the United Nations;
(b)Special economic assistance to individual countries or regions;
(c)Strengthening of international cooperation and coordination of efforts
to study, mitigate and minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster;
(d)Emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy and
reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan.
21. University for Peace (item 21).
22.Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin
(item 22).
23.Restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the economic,
social and related fields (item 23).
24.Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of
Africa in the 1990s (item 24).
25.Cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American Economic
System (item 25).
26.The situation in Burundi (item 26).
27.Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo
imposed by the United States of America against Cuba (item 27).
28.The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (item 28).
29.Commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations (item
29).
30.Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security
and Cooperation in Europe (item 30).
31.Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States
(item 31).
32.Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the
Islamic Conference (item 32).
33.International assistance for the rehabilitation and reconstruction of
Nicaragua: aftermath of the war and natural disasters (item 33).
34.United Nations Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa
(item 34).
35.Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte (item 35).
36.Commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the end of the Second World
War (item 36).
37.Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic (item 37).
38.The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti (item 38).
39.Law of the sea (item 39). The General Assembly decided to consider
item 96 (c) directly in plenary meeting in conjunction with the
consideration of item 39.
40.Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic
ideal (item 40).
41.Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to
promote and consolidate new or restored democracies (item 41).
42.Question of Palestine (item 42).
43.Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African
Unity (item 43).
44.The situation in the Middle East (item 44).
45.The situation in Central America: procedures for the establishment of a
firm and lasting peace and progress in fashioning a region of peace,
freedom, democracy and development (item 45).
46.Assistance in mine clearance (item 46).
47.Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership
of the Security Council and related matters (item 47).
48.Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (item 48). The General
Assembly decided to consider the item directly in plenary meeting, on the
understanding that bodies and individuals having an interest in the
question would be heard in the Special Political and Decolonization
Committee (Fourth Committee) in conjunction with the consideration of the
item in plenary meeting.
49.Report of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons
Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law
Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (item 49).
50.Declaration of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the
Organization of African Unity on the aerial and naval military attack
against the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya by the present United
States Administration in April 1986 (item 50).
51.Armed Israeli aggression against the Iraqi nuclear installations and its
grave consequences for the established international system concerning the
peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons
and international peace and security (item 51).
52.Launching of global negotiations on international economic cooperation
for development (item 52).
53.Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations (item 53).
54.The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international
peace and security (item 54).
55.Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against Kuwait
(item 56).
56. Environment and sustainable development (item 96): 5/
(c)Sustainable use and conservation of the marine living resources of the
high seas.
57.Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union
(item 150).
58.Report of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of
Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of
International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and
Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations
Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31
December 1994 (item 151).
59.Review of the role of the Trusteeship Council (item 152). The General
Assembly decided that the introduction and initial discussion of the item
would be held directly in plenary meeting and its subsequent consideration
would be held in the Sixth Committee.
60.Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation
Organization (item 153).
61.Participation of volunteers, "White Helmets", in activities of the
United Nations in the field of humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and
technical cooperation for development (item 154).
62.Observer status for the Central American Integration System in the
General Assembly (item 155).
63.Multilingualism (item 156).
64.Cooperation between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and
Technical Cooperation (item 157).
65.Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
(item 161).
66.Universal congress on the Panama Canal (item 162).
67.Strengthening of the United Nations system (item 163).
First Committee
1.Compliance with arms limitation and disarmament obligations (item 57).
2.Education and information for disarmament (item 58).
3.Verification in all its aspects, including the role of the United
Nations in the field of verification (item 59).
4.Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening of
International Security (item 60).
5.Reduction of military budgets (item 61).
6.Scientific and technological developments and their impact on
international security (item 62).
7.The role of science and technology in the context of international
security, disarmament and other related fields (item 63).
8.Amendment of the Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere,
in Outer Space and under Water (item 64).
9.Comprehensive test-ban treaty (item 65).
10.Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle
East (item 66).
11.Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia (item 67).
12.Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-
nuclearweapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons
(item 68).
13.Prevention of an arms race in outer space (item 69).
14.General and complete disarmament (item 70): 2/
(a)Notification of nuclear tests;
(b)Further measures in the field of disarmament for the prevention of an
arms race on the seabed and the ocean floor and in the subsoil thereof;
(c)Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes;
(d)Review of the Declaration of the 1990s as the Third Disarmament
Decade;
(e)Transparency in armaments;
(f)Step-by-step reduction of the nuclear threat;
(g)Fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to
disarmament;
(h)Relationship between disarmament and development;
(i)Measures to curb the illicit transfer and use of conventional arms;
(j)Regional disarmament;
(k)Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels;
(l)Non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and of vehicles for
their delivery in all its aspects.
15.Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth
Special Session of the General Assembly (item 71):
(a)United Nations disarmament fellowship, training and advisory services;
(b)Regional confidence-building measures;
(c)United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa,
United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the
Pacific and United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and
Development in Latin America and the Caribbean;
(d)Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons.
16.Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions
adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session (item 72):
(a)Report of the Disarmament Commission;
(b)Report of the Conference on Disarmament;
(c)Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters;
(d)United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research;
(e)Disarmament Week.
17.The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East (item 73).
18.Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain
Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to
Have Indiscriminate Effects (item 74).
19.Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region
(item 75).
20.Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace
(item 76).
21.Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty
of Tlatelolco) (item 77).
22.Final text of a treaty on an African nuclear-weapon-free zone (item 78).
23.Rationalization of the work and reform of the agenda of the First
Committee (item 79).
24.Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and
Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their
Destruction (item 80).
25.Maintenance of international security (item 81).
Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee)
1.Effects of atomic radiation (item 82).
2.International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space (item 83).
3.United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the
Near East (item 84).
4.Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices
Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the
Occupied Territories (item 85).
5.Comprehensive review of the whole question of peace-keeping operations
in all their aspects (item 86).
6.Questions relating to information (item 87).
7.Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under
Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations (item 88).
8.Activities of foreign economic and other interests which impede the
implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to
Colonial Countries and Peoples in Territories under colonial domination
(item 89).
9.Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to
Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the
international institutions associated with the United Nations (item 90).
10.Report of the Economic and Social Council (chapter V (section C)) (item
12).
11.Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants
of Non-Self-Governing Territories (item 91).
12.The situation in the occupied territories of Croatia (item 92).
13.Question of the composition of the relevant organs of the United Nations
(item 93).
14.Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to
Colonial Countries and Peoples (item 18). 4/
15.Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (item 48). 6/
Second Committee
1.Report of the Economic and Social Council (chapters I to IV, VI
(sections A to M, O and P), VII to XI and XIV) (item 12). The chapters of
the report listed below have been referred also to plenary meetings and to
the Third and Fifth Committees, as follows:
(a) Chapters I and XIV ........................ Plenary meetings and
Third
and Fifth Committees
(b) Chapter II ................................ Plenary meetings
(c) Chapter III ............................... Third Committee
(d) Chapter IX ................................ Third and Fifth
Committees
2.Macroeconomic policy questions (item 94):
(a)Financing of development;
(b)Long-term trends in social and economic development;
(c)External debt crisis and development.
3.Sustainable development and international economic cooperation (item
95):
(a)Trade and development;
(b)Human settlements;
(c)United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II);
(d)Science and technology for development;
(e)Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed
Countries for the 1990s;
(f)Women in development;
(g)Human resources development;
(h)Business and development;
(i)International cooperation for the eradication of poverty in developing
countries;
(j)United Nations initiative on opportunity and participation.
4.Environment and sustainable development (item 96): 5/
(a)Implementation of decisions and recommendations of the United Nations
Conference on Environment and Development;
(b)Desertification and drought;
(d)Protection of global climate for present and future generations of
mankind;
(e)Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the
Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States;
(f)International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction.
5.Operational activities for development (item 97): The General Assembly
decided that the report of the Administrator of the United Nations
Development Programme on the operations, management and budget of the
United Nations Development Fund for Women should be referred to the Second
Committee for consideration under item 97.
(a)Triennial policy review of operational activities for development of
the United Nations system;
(b)Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries.
6.Training and research: United Nations Institute for Training and
Research (item 98).
7.Agenda for development (item 99).
8.Renewal of the dialogue on strengthening international economic
cooperation for development through partnership (item 100).
9.International migration and development, including the convening of a
United Nations conference on international migration and development (item
101).
10.Implementation of the Programme of Action of the International
Conference on Population and Development (item 102).
Third Committee
1.Report of the Economic and Social Council (chapters I, III, V (sections
B and D to I), IX and XIV) (item 12). The chapters of the report listed
below have been referred also to plenary meetings and to the Second and
Fifth Committees, as follows:
(a) Chapters I and XIV ....................... Plenary meetings and
Second
and Fifth Committees
(b) Chapter III .............................. Second Committee
(c) Chapter IX ............................... Second and Fifth
Committees
2.Elimination of racism and racial discrimination (item 103).
3.Right of peoples to self-determination (item 104).
4.Social development, including questions relating to the world social
situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family (item 105).
The General Assembly decided that the plenary meetings to mark the tenth
anniversary of International Youth Year would be held on Thursday and
Friday, 26 and 27 October 1995.
5.Crime prevention and criminal justice (item 106).
6.Advancement of women (item 107). 9/
7.International drug control (item 108).
8.Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions
relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian
questions (item 109).
9.Promotion and protection of the rights of children (item 110).
10.Programme of activities of the International Decade of the World's
Indigenous People (item 111).
11.Human rights questions (item 112):
(a)Implementation of human rights instruments;
(b)Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for
improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms;
The General Assembly decided that a special commemorative plenary meeting
to mark the end of the United Nations Year for Tolerance would be held at a
date to be fixed.
(c)Human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and
representatives;
(d)Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna
Declaration and Programme of Action.
Fifth Committee
1.Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the
Board of Auditors (item 113):
(a)United Nations Institute for Training and Research;
(b)Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees.
2.Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning
of the United Nations (item 114).
3.Programme budget for the biennium 1994-1995 (item 115).
4.Proposed programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997 (item 116).
5.Improving the financial situation of the United Nations (item 117).
6.Joint Inspection Unit (item 118). The General Assembly decided to
allocate the item to the Fifth Committee, on the understanding that the
reports of the Joint Inspection Unit dealing with subject-matters assigned
to other Main Committees would be referred also to those Committees.
7.Pattern of conferences (item 119).
8.Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United
Nations (item 120).
9.United Nations common system (item 121).
10.Financing of the United Nations peace-keeping forces in the Middle East
(item 122):
(a)United Nations Disengagement Observer Force;
(b)United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
11.Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission (item 123).
12.Financing of the activities arising from Security Council resolution 687
(1991) (item 124):
(a)United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission;
(b)Other activities.
13.Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western
Sahara (item 125).
14.Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador (item
126).
15.Financing and liquidation of the United Nations Transitional Authority
in Cambodia (item 127).
16.Financing of the United Nations Protection Force, the United Nations
Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia, the United Nations Preventive
Deployment Force and the United Nations Peace Forces headquarters (item
128).
17.Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II (item 129).
18.Financing of the liquidation of the United Nations Operation in
Mozambique (item 130).
19.Financing of the United Nations Peace-keeping Force in Cyprus (item
131).
20.Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (item 132).
21.Financing of the United Nations Mission in Haiti (item 133).
22.Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (item 134).
23.Financing of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (item
135).
24.Financing of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons
Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law
Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (item 136).
25.Financing of the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan (item
137).
26.Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United
Nations peace-keeping operations (item 138):
(a)Financing of the United Nations peace-keeping operations;
(b)Relocation of Ukraine to the group of Member States set out in
paragraph 3 (c) of General Assembly resolution 43/232.
27.Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Office of
Internal Oversight Services (item 149).
28.Programme planning (item 158).
29.Human resources management (item 159).
30.Financing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of
Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of
International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and
Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations
Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31
December 1994 (item 160).
31.Report of the Economic and Social Council (chapters I, IX, XII and XIV)
(item 12). The chapters of the report listed below have been referred
also to plenary meetings and to the Second and Third Committees, as
follows:
(a) Chapters I and XIV ....................... Plenary meetings and
Second
and Third Committees
(b) Chapter IX ............................... Second and Third
Committees
32.Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other
appointments (item 17): For sub-item (f), see "Plenary meetings", item
17.
(a)Appointment of members of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and
Budgetary Questions;
(b)Appointment of members of the Committee on Contributions;
(c)Appointment of a member of the Board of Auditors;
(d)Confirmation of the appointment of members of the Investments
Committee;
(e)Appointment of members of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal.
Sixth Committee
1.United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study,
Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law (item 139).
2.United Nations Decade of International Law (item 140).
3.Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-
seventh session (item 141).
4.Establishment of an international criminal court (item 142).
5.Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on
the work of its twenty-eighth session (item 143).
6.Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country (item 144).
7.Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and
on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization (item 145).
8.Measures to eliminate international terrorism (item 146).
9.Consideration of the draft articles on the status of the diplomatic
courier and the diplomatic bag not accompanied by diplomatic courier and of
the draft optional protocols thereto (item 147).
10.Review of the procedure provided for under article 11 of the statute of
the Administrative Tribunal of the United Nations (item 148).
11.Review of the role of the Trusteeship Council (item 152). 7/
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