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General Assembly
Distr. GENERAL
11 September 1998
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A/53/250
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General Assembly
Fifty-third session
Organization of the fifty-third regular session of the
General Assembly, adoption of the agenda and
allocation of items
First report of the General Committee
Contents
Paragraphs Page
I. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-4 2
II. Organization of the session. . . . . . . . . . . 5-41 2
III. Observations on the organization of future
sessions of the General Assembly . . . . . . . . 42-43 10
IV. Adoption of the agenda . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44-58 11
V. Allocation of items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59-61 23
I. Introduction
1. At its first and second meetings, on 11 September 1998, the
General Committee considered a memorandum by the Secretary-General relating to
the organization of the fifty-third regular session and future sessions of the
General Assembly, the adoption of the agenda and the allocation of items
(A/BUR/53/1 and Add.1). A summary of the discussion will appear in the summary
records of the meetings (A/BUR/53/SR.1 and 2).
2. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General in paragraph 3 of his
memorandum (A/BUR/53/1), the General Committee draws the attention of the
General Assembly to the provisions reproduced in annexes V, VI, VII and VIII
to its rules of procedure.
3. The General Committee took note of annex I to General Assembly
resolution 48/264 of 29 July 1994, entitled "Guidelines on the rationalization
of the agenda of the General Assembly" and of the annex to resolution 51/241
of 31 July 1997, entitled "Strengthening of the United Nations system". The
provisions of the resolutions are reflected in the present document under the
relevant headings.
4. In this connection, the Committee draws the attention of the
Assembly to the reports of the Secretary-General on the implementation of
General Assembly resolution 48/264 (A/52/856) and resolution 51/241
(A/52/855).
II. Organization of the session
A. General Committee
5. The General Committee took note of the General Assembly decisions
relevant to its work that were brought to the Committee's attention by the
Secretary-General in paragraph 5 of his memorandum (A/BUR/53/1).
B. Rationalization of work
6. The General Committee took note (A/BUR/53/1, paras. 6 and 7) of
the measures undertaken by the Secretary-General in pursuance of the goal of
renewal and reform, in particular to recommendations 2, 3 and 7 of the Group
of High-level Intergovernmental Experts to Review the Efficiency of the
Administrative and Financial Functioning of the United Nations 1/ as reflected
in his progress reports on the implementation of General Assembly resolution
41/213 of 19 December 1986, entitled "Review of the efficiency of
the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations". The
Committee also took note of resolution 48/264, entitled "Revitalization of the
work of the General Assembly" and annex I thereto and resolution 52/12 B of 19
December 1997, entitled "Renewing the United Nations: a programme for reform".
7. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/53/1, para. 8),
the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to paragraph 5 of
the annex to resolution 45/45 (A/520/Rev.15 and Amend.1, annex VIII), which
reads as follows:
"5. The General Committee should consider, at the beginning of
each session of the General Assembly, recommending that certain Main
Committees should meet in sequential order, taking into account such
matters as the number of meetings required for the consideration of
the questions with which they are charged at that session, the
organization of the work of the whole session and the problem of
participation of small delegations."
8. In this connection, the Committee also draws the Assembly's
attention to paragraphs 30, 31 and 36 of the annex to resolution 51/241, which
read as follows:
"30. All Main Committees shall hold brief organizational
sessions once the General Assembly has taken decisions on the agenda,
before the commencement of the general debate. Bureaux of the Main
Committees shall meet earlier to draw up recommendations on the
organization and programme of work.
"31. The Main Committees shall meet in substantive session only
after the end of the general debate.
...
"36. The First Committee and the Fourth Committee shall not meet
simultaneously and may consider meeting in a sequential manner during
the regular session of the General Assembly. This arrangement shall
not apply if it affects their respective identities, programmes of
work and effective consideration of their agendas."
9. The General Committee took note of the fact that measures
introduced to reduce costs relating to overtime will be strictly enforced.
C. Closing date of the session
10. In accordance with the provisions of rule 2 of the rules of
procedure, as the General Assembly is mandated to meet on 10 December for the
commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights, the General Committee recommends to the Assembly that the
session should recess on Friday, 11 December 1998.
11. The Committee also recommends to the Assembly that the First,
Special Political and Decolonization (Fourth Committee), Third and Sixth
Committees should complete their work by Friday, 20 November, the Second
Committee by Friday, 27 November and the Fifth Committee by Friday, 4 December
1998.
D. Schedule of meetings
12. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/53/1, para.
11), the General Committee recommends to the General Assembly that morning
meetings should start at 10 a.m. promptly for all plenary meetings and
meetings of the Main Committees during the fifty-third session. The Committee
also recommends to the Assembly that, as a cost-saving measure, every effort
should be made to ensure that plenary meetings and meetings of the Main
Committees adjourn by 6 p.m., and that no meetings be held on weekends. The
Committee also recommends to the Assembly that this cost-saving measure should
also apply, for the remainder of 1998, to meetings on the calendar of
conferences and meetings of the United Nations.
13. Also at the suggestion of the Secretary-General (ibid., para.
12), the General Committee recommends that, in order to avoid the late start
of meetings, the General Assembly should waive the requirement of the presence
of at least one third of the members to declare a plenary meeting open and
permit the debate to proceed and one quarter of the members to declare a
meeting of a Main Committee open and permit the debate to proceed. This
recommendation is made on the understanding that such a waiver would not imply
any permanent change in the provisions of rules 67 and 108 of the rules of
procedure and that the requirement of the presence of a majority of the
members for any decision to be taken would be maintained.
14. In this connection, the General Committee also recommends to
the General Assembly that delegations should be reminded of the utmost
importance of punctuality in the interest of ensuring an effective and orderly
organization of work and achieving economies for the United Nations.
E. General debate
15. The General Committee took note of the fact that the general
debate will begin on Monday, 21 September, and end on Friday, 2 October 1998,
in accordance with recent practice and the relevant provisions of the annex to
resolution 51/241 (paras. 19 and 20 (a) and (e)), which read as follows:
"19. There shall continue to be only one general debate each
year, beginning in the third week of September.
"20. The preparation of the list of speakers for the general
debate shall be based on the following principles:
"(a) The general debate shall be organized over a period
of two weeks so as to maximize possibilities for interministerial
contacts;
...
"(e) The list of speakers for each day shall be completed
and no speakers will be rolled over to the next day, notwithstanding
the implications for hours of work."
16. The General Committee draws the attention of the General
Assembly to paragraph 21 of the annex to resolution 51/241, which reads as
follows:
"21. There shall be no time limits or specified themes for the
general debate but the General Assembly will indicate a voluntary
guideline of up to twenty minutes for each statement."
17. The General Committee endorsed the suggestion of the
Secretary-General that the list of speakers in the general debate should be
closed on Wednesday, 23 September, at 6 p.m., in accordance with the
recommendation of the Special Committee on the Rationalization of the
Procedures and Organization of the General Assembly (A/520/Rev.15, annex V,
para. 46).
18. The General Committee also draws the General Assembly's
attention to the decision taken by the Assembly at previous sessions, namely,
that the practice of expressing congratulations inside the General Assembly
Hall after a speech has been delivered is prohibited. In this connection, the
Committee may wish to recommend to the Assembly that speakers in the general
debate, after delivering their statements, should leave the General Assembly
Hall through room GA-200 located behind the podium before returning to their
seats.
F. Explanations of vote, right of reply, points of order and length of
statements
19. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/53/1, para.
18), the General Committee draws the attention of the General Assembly to
paragraphs 6, 7 and 8 of its decision 34/401 (A/520/Rev.15, annex VI), which
read as follows:
"6. Explanations of vote should be limited to ten minutes.
"7. When the same draft resolution is considered in a Main
Committee and in plenary meeting, a delegation should, as far as
possible, explain its vote only once, i.e., either in the Committee
or in plenary meeting, unless that delegation's vote in plenary
meeting is different from its vote in the Committee.
"8. Delegations should exercise their right of reply at the end
of the day whenever two meetings have been scheduled for that day and
whenever such meetings are devoted to the consideration of the same
item."
20. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/53/1, para.
19), the General Committee, in line with time limits for explanations of vote
and right of reply, recommends to the General Assembly that points of order
should be limited to five minutes.
21. With a view to streamlining the procedures of the General
Assembly and as another cost-saving measure, the General Committee, in
connection with the length of statements, draws the attention of the Assembly
to paragraph 22 of the annex to resolution 51/241, which reads as follows:
"22. Outside the general debate there shall be a fifteen-minute
time limit in plenary meetings and in the Main Committees."
22. In this connection, the Committee also draws the attention of
the Assembly to the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of
resolution 51/241 (A/52/855), in particular to paragraph 23, which reads as
follows:
"23. Paragraph 22. Since in plenary meetings the length of
statements in debates other than the general debate averages eight
minutes, the General Assembly may wish to review the recommendation
contained in paragraph 22."
23. Furthermore, in connection with the length of statements, with
a view to streamlining the procedures of the General Assembly and as a
cost-saving measure, the General Committee draws the attention of the
Assembly, as it did at recent sessions, to rules 72 and 114 of the rules of
procedure and paragraph 22 of annex VI thereto for appropriate action
in plenary meeting and the Main Committees.
G. Records of meetings
24. As at past sessions (A/BUR/53/1, para. 21), verbatim records
will continue to be provided, during the fifty-third session, for the plenary
meetings of the General Assembly and meetings of the First Committee, and
summary records will be provided to the General Committee and the Main
Committees of the Assembly. In accordance with the recommendation of the
Special Committee on the Rationalization of the Procedures and Organization of
the General Assembly (A/520/Rev.15, annex V, para. 108 (b)), the General
Committee recommends that the Assembly should maintain for the fifty-third
session the practice whereby the Special Political and Decolonization
Committee (Fourth Committee) may obtain, on specific request, transcriptions
of the debates of some of its meetings, or portions thereof. These
transcriptions, which would not be part of the official records of the
Committee, would be provided as the required services became available.
Furthermore, the General Committee draws the Assembly's attention to
paragraphs 8 and 9 of its resolution 38/32 E of 25 November 1983, which read
as follows:
"8. Decides that the practice of reproducing statements in
extenso as separate documents shall be discontinued for all its
subsidiary organs that are entitled to summary records;
"9. Decides further that any exceptions to this rule may be
made by the body concerned only if the statements are to serve as
bases for discussion and if, after hearing a statement of the
relevant financial implications, the body decides that one
or more statements in extenso may be included in the summary record,
or reproduced as separate documents or as annexes to authorized
documents."
In this connection, the General Committee also recommends to the Assembly that
the practice not to reproduce in extenso statements made in a Main Committee
should be maintained for the fifty-third session.
H. Concluding statements
25. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/53/1, para.
23), the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to paragraph
17 of its decision 34/401 (A/520/Rev.15, annex VI), which reads as follows:
"17. To save time at the end of the session, the practice of
making concluding statements in the General Assembly and its Main
Committees should be dispensed with except for statements by the
presiding officers."
I. Resolutions
26. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/53/1, para.
24), the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to paragraph
32 of its decision 34/401, which reads as follows:
"32. Whenever possible, resolutions requesting the discussion
of a question at a subsequent session should not call for the
inclusion of a separate new item and such discussion should be held
under the item under which the resolution was adopted."
27. Furthermore, at the suggestion of the Secretary-General (ibid.,
para. 25), the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to
recommendation 3 (f) of the Group of High-level Intergovernmental Experts,
which reads as follows:
"(f) Efforts should be made to reduce the number of
resolutions adopted by the General Assembly. Resolutions should
request reports of the Secretary-General only in cases where that
would be indispensable for facilitating the implementation
of these resolutions or the continued examination of the question."
28. In this connection, the General Committee draws the attention
of the General Assembly to paragraph 5 of its resolution 48/264, which reads
as follows:
"5. Encourages Member States to exercise restraint in making
proposals requesting new reports of the Secretary-General, bearing in
mind the desirability of reducing the number of such reports."
29. The General Committee also draws the attention of the General
Assembly to paragraphs 1 and 10 of the annex to resolution 45/45
(A/520/Rev.15/Amend.1, annex VIII).
J. Documentation
30. On the proposal of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/53/1, para.
28), the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to paragraph
28 of its decision 34/401, which reads as follows:
"28. The General Assembly, including its Main Committees,
should merely take note of those reports of the Secretary-General or
subsidiary organs which do not require a decision by the Assembly and
should neither debate nor adopt resolutions on them, unless
specifically requested to do so by the Secretary-General or the organ
concerned."
31. The General Committee also draws the attention of the General
Assembly to paragraph 6 of its resolution 48/264, which reads as follows:
"6. Emphasizes that reports requested of the Secretary-General
should be made available in all official languages in a timely manner
in accordance with the rules of procedure of the General Assembly and
the annexes thereto with a view to enabling delegations to consider
the substance of such reports more thoroughly in advance of
meetings."
The Committee also draws the attention of the Assembly to paragraph 4 of
resolution 50/206 C of 23 December 1995, in which the Assembly once again
requested the Secretary-General "to ensure that documentation is available in
accordance with the six-week rule for the distribution of documents,
simultaneously in each of the six official languages of the United Nations".
32. The General Committee further draws the attention of the
General Assembly to paragraph 32 of resolution 51/241, which reads as follows:
"32. The number of reports requested shall be rationalized
where possible so as to permit more focused consideration of issues.
All bodies shall exercise restraint in making proposals containing
requests for new reports and should consider integrating,
biennializing or triennializing the presentation of reports,
bearing in mind paragraphs 6 and 7 of General Assembly resolution
50/206 C of 23 December 1995."
K. Questions related to the programme budget
33. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/53/1, paras.
31 and 32), who referred to rule 153 of the rules of procedure, the General
Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to paragraphs 12 and 13 of
its decision 34/401, which read as follows:
"12. It is imperative that Main Committees should allow
sufficient time for the preparation of the estimate of expenditures by
the Secretariat and for its consideration by the Advisory Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary Questions and the Fifth Committee and
that they should take this requirement into account when they adopt
their programme of work;
"13. Furthermore:
"(a) A mandatory deadline, not later than 1 December, should
be established for the submission to the Fifth Committee of all draft
resolutions with financial implications;
"(b) The Fifth Committee should, as a general practice,
consider accepting without debate the recommendations of the Advisory
Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the financial
implications of draft resolutions up to a prescribed limit, namely,
$25,000 on any one item;
"(c) Firm deadlines should be set for the early submission of
the reports of subsidiary organs which require consideration by the
Fifth Committee;
"(d) A minimum period of forty-eight hours should be allowed
between the submission and the voting of a proposal involving
expenditure in order to allow the Secretary-General to prepare and
present the related statement of administrative and financial
implications."
In this connection, see also paragraph 43.
34. The General Committee also draws the attention of the Assembly
to paragraph 6 of its resolution 35/10 A of 3 November 1980, which reads as
follows:
"6. Decides that all proposals affecting the schedule of
conferences and meetings made at sessions of the General Assembly
shall be reviewed by the Committee on Conferences when administrative
implications are being considered under the requirements of rule 153
of the rules of procedure of the Assembly."
35. Also at the suggestion of the Secretary-General (ibid., para.
31), the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to
regulation 4.9 of the Regulations Governing Programme Planning, the Programme
Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of
Evaluation (resolution 37/234, annex), which reads as follows:
"Regulation 4.9. No Council, Commission or other competent body
shall take a decision involving either a change in the programme
budget approved by the General Assembly or the possible requirement
of expenditure unless it has received and taken account of a report
from the Secretary-General on the programme budget implications
of the proposal."
36. In connection with subparagraph 13 (d) of decision 34/401
quoted above, the General Committee wishes to draw the attention of the
General Assembly to the observations of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/53/1,
paras. 33 and 34) regarding the fact that, depending on the type and
complexity of proposals involving changes in the work programme and
additional expenditures, the preparation of a statement of programme
budget implications by the Secretary-General may take a few days. In addition,
the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and the Fifth
Committee need adequate time to review the programme budget implications of a
draft resolution before the latter can be acted on by the Assembly. The
Secretary-General thus considers it desirable that Member States submit
proposals involving statements of programme budget implications sufficiently
in advance to avoid the cancellation of meetings and the postponement
of consideration of items.
L. Observances and commemorative meetings
37. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/53/1, para.
35), the General Committee recommends to the General Assembly that, allowing
for the necessary flexibility and with the exception of the anniversary of the
United Nations, the Assembly should adopt the following format for
commemorative meetings: statements by the President of the General Assembly
and the Secretary-General, statements by the chairmen of the five regional
groups and by the representative of the host country. The Committee also
recommends that consideration be given to limiting each statement to
15 minutes.
38. The General Committee further recommends, at the suggestion of
the Secretary-General (ibid., para. 36), that observances and commemorative
meetings should take place, as far as possible, immediately following the
general debate. The advantage of such a procedure is that it may facilitate
the participation of dignitaries attending the general debate. This procedure
would also allow advance planning of the work of the General Assembly.
M. Special conferences
39. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/53/1, para.
37), the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to
recommendation 6 of the Committee on Conferences, adopted by the Assembly in
paragraph (b) of its decision 34/405, which reads as follows:
"(b) The Committee, taking into account difficulties
encountered in ensuring adequate preparation of meetings, including
timely distribution of documentation, as well as the ability of Member
States to participate fully, recommends that the General Assembly
should instruct the Main Committees to review the number of
special conferences of the United Nations already proposed and
scheduled in their respective fields of activity prior to deciding
upon the scheduling of new and additional special conferences, thus
bearing in mind the relevant portions of General Assembly resolution
33/55."
The General Committee also draws the Assembly's attention to
recommendation 2(d) of the Group of High-level Intergovernmental Experts,
which reads as follows:
"Until 1978, a number of resolutions had requested that only
one major conference be scheduled annually. The decision of the
General Assembly that no more than five special conferences should
take place in a given year and that no more than one special
conference should be convened at the same time should be strictly
implemented."
40. Furthermore, at the suggestion of the Secretary-General (ibid.,
para. 38), the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to the
relevant provisions of recommendation 4 of the Group of High-level
Intergovernmental Experts which reads as follows:
"The existing principle that United Nations bodies should meet
at their respective established headquarters, as provided for in
General Assembly resolution 40/243 of 18 December 1985, should be
strictly enforced. Whenever the Assembly accepts an invitation from
the Government of a Member State to hold a conference or meeting away
from established headquarters, the additional cost should be borne
in full by that Government. The methods of budgeting these costs
should be improved so as to ensure that all additional costs are
accounted for."
N. Meetings of subsidiary organs
41. The General Committee, in the light of recommendations
submitted by the Committee on Conferences (A/53/298), recommends to the
General Assembly, on the strict understanding that meetings would have to be
accommodated within available facilities and services, that the following
subsidiary organs should be authorized to meet during the main part of the
fifty-third session:
(a) Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the
Palestinian People;
(b) Working Group on the Financing of the United Nations Relief
and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
III. Observations on the organization of future sessions of the
General Assembly
42. The General Committee draws the attention of the General
Assembly to paragraph 17 of the annex to resolution 51/241 which states, inter
alia, that the "plenary meetings of the General Assembly shall be formally
opened every year on the first Tuesday following 1 September". In this
connection, the Committee may wish to draw the attention of the Assembly to
the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 51/241
(A/52/855), in particular to paragraphs 16 and 17 thereof, which read:
"16. Rule 1 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly
states that the General Assembly shall meet every year in regular
session commencing on the third Tuesday in September. Paragraph 17
of the annex to the resolution calls, inter alia, for the
regular sessions of the General Assembly to now commence on the
first Tuesday following 1 September. Rule 1 of the rules of
procedure would need to be amended.
"17. In addition, in accordance with rule 2 of the rules of
procedure, the General Assembly has, at the beginning of each
session, fixed a closing date for the session. In recent years,
the closing date has been the Monday before the opening of the
next session. Were the General Assembly to retain this practice,
the closing date would consistently fall on an official holiday
of the Organization, for which financial and other implications
may need to be considered. The General Assembly may wish to
decide on a closing date ... and for future sessions, that will
fall on a working day ...".
43. On 4 June 1998, the General Assembly adopted resolution 52/232
on the strengthening of the United Nations system. In paragraph 1, the
Assembly decided, as an interim measure, "that the fifty-second session of the
General Assembly shall close on Tuesday, 8 September 1998, and that the
fifty-third session of the General Assembly shall open on Wednesday, 9
September 1998". The General Committee recommends that the Assembly address
the question of the opening and closing dates of future regular sessions.
In this connection, taking into account the opening date of the regular
sessions, the Committee may also wish to recommend to the Assembly a review of
the question of the mandatory deadline for the submission to the Fifth
Committee of all draft resolutions with programme budget implications.
IV. Adoption of the agenda
44. The General Committee considered the draft agenda of the
fifty-third session submitted by the Secretary-General in his memorandum
(A/BUR/53/1 and add.1). All the items contained in the draft agenda formed
part of the following documents:
(a) Provisional agenda of the fifty-third session (A/53/150);
(b) Supplementary list (A/53/200);
(c) Request for the inclusion of an additional item (A/53/232).
45. The General Committee took note of paragraphs 4 and 5 (a) and
(c) of annex I to resolution 48/264, which read as follows:
"4. There shall be periodic reviews of the agenda, taking into
account the views of concerned Member States, in order to
ascertain whether it is possible to delete any item on which no
resolution or decision has been adopted for a period of time.
"5. The Main Committees should be encouraged to continue with
the review of their respective agendas, taking into account, inter
alia, the following:
"(a) Agenda items concerning issues of closely related
substance could be merged within a single agenda title or be
incorporated as sub-items where this is possible without loss of
focus on the items/sub-items concerned;
"...
"(c) Biennialization and triennialization of items on the
agenda of the Main Committees could be considered in accordance
with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly."
In this connection, the attention of the General Committee was drawn
to paragraphs 23 to 26 of the annex to resolution 51/241. In addition, bearing
in mind the extremely heavy workload of the General Assembly and the need to
make the most effective use of scarce resources, the General Committee took
note of the suggestion by the Secretary-General to consider deferring to a
later session items for which decisions or action are not required at the main
part of the present session.
46. Concerning item 62 of the draft agenda (The situation in
Burundi), the General Committee decided to recommend the deletion of the item
from the agenda of the fifty-third session.
47. With regard to item 89 of the draft agenda (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), the General Committee decided to
recommend that the item should read: "Economic and other activities which
affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories".
48. With regard to item 92 of the draft agenda (Question of the
Malagasy islands of Glorieuses, Juan de Nova, Europa and Bassas da India), the
General Committee decided to recommend that the consideration of the item
should be deferred to the fifty-fourth session and that the item should be
included in the provisional agenda of that session.
49. In connection with item 93 of the draft agenda (Question of
East Timor), the General Committee decided to recommend that the consideration
of the item should be deferred to the fifty-fourth session and that the item
should be included in the provisional agenda of that session.
50. With regard to item 160 of the draft agenda (Bethlehem 2000),
the General Committee decided to recommend its inclusion.
51. In connection with item 161 of the draft agenda (World Solar
Programme 1996 2005), the General Committee decided to recommend its
inclusion.
52. With regard to item 162 of the draft agenda (Observer status
for the Association of Caribbean States in the General Assembly), the General
Committee decided to recommend its inclusion.
53. In connection with item 165 of the draft agenda (Observer
status for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in the
General Assembly), the General Committee decided to recommend its inclusion.
54. With regard to item 166 of the draft agenda (Need to review
General Assembly resolution 2758 (XXVI) of 25 October 1971 owing to the
fundamental change in the international situation and to the coexistence of
two Governments across the Taiwan Strait), the General Committee decided not
to recommend its inclusion.
55. In connection with item 167 of the draft agenda (Financing of
the United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra Leone), the General Committee
decided to recommend its inclusion.
56. With regard to item 168 of the draft agenda (Fiftieth
anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide), the General Committee decided to recommend its inclusion as a
sub-item of item 46 of the draft agenda (Fiftieth anniversary of the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights).
57. In connection with item 169 of the draft agenda (Causes of
conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in
Africa), the General Committee decided to recommend its inclusion.
58. Taking into account paragraphs 44 to 57 above, the General
Committee recommends to the General Assembly the adoption of the following
agenda: 2/
1. Opening of the session by the Chairman of the delegation of
Ukraine (P.1).
2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation (P.2).
3. Credentials of representatives to the fifty-third session of the
General Assembly (P.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 (P.4).
5. Election of the officers of the Main Committees (P.5).
6. Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly (P.6).
7. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph
2, of the Charter of the United Nations (P.7).
8. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work: reports of the
General Committee (P.8).
9. General debate (P.9).
10. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization
(P.10).
11. Report of the Security Council (P.11).
12. Report of the Economic and Social Council (P.12).
13. Report of the International Court of Justice (P.13).
14. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (P.14).
15. Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs (P.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 (P.16):
(a) Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme
and Coordination;
(b) Election of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees.
17. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other
appointments (P.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;
(f) International Civil Service Commission:
(i) Appointment of members of the Commission;
(ii) Designation of the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of
the Commission;
(g) Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences;
(h) Appointment of a member of the Joint Inspection Unit;
(i) Confirmation of the appointment of the Secretary-General
of the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development;
(j) Appointment of the Under-Secretary-General for Internal
Oversight Services.
18. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of
Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (P.18).
19. Admission of new Members to the United Nations (P.19).
20. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster
relief assistance of the United Nations, including special
economic assistance (P.20):
(a) Strengthening of the coordination of emergency
humanitarian assistance of the United Nations;
(b) Special economic assistance to individual countries or
regions;
(c) Emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy
and reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan;
(d) Assistance to the Palestinian people.
21. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of
American States (P.21).
22. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Asian-African
Legal Consultative Committee (P.22).
23. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean
Community (P.23).
24. Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the
Development of Africa in the 1990s, including measures and
recommendations agreed upon at its mid-term review (P.24).
25. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American
Economic System (P.25).
26. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of
the Islamic Conference (P.26).
27. Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab
States (P.27).
28. Cooperation between the United Nations and the
Inter-Parliamentary Union (P.28).
29. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial
embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba
(P.29).
30. United Nations reform: measures and proposals (P.30).
31. Culture of peace (P.31).
32. Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic (P.32).
33. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of
Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored
democracies (P.33).
34. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic
Cooperation Organization (P.34).
35. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of
African Unity (P.35).
36. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (P.36).
37. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social
Development (P.37).
38. Oceans and the law of the sea (P.38):
(a) Law of the sea;
(b) Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing, unauthorized
fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and on the
high seas, fisheries by-catch and discards, and other
developments.
39. Question of Palestine (P.39).
40. The situation in the Middle East (P.40).
41. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (P.41).
42. Assistance in mine clearance (P.42).
43. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti (P.43).
44. 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 (P.44).
45. The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for
international peace and security (P.45).
46. Fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (P.46): 3/
(a) Fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights;
(b) Fiftieth anniversary of the Convention on the
Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
(S.2).
47. Election of the judges 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 (P.47).
48. 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 (P.48).
49. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (P.49).
50. 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 (P.50).
51. Elimination of coercive economic measures as a means of
political and economic compulsion (P.51).
52. 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 (P.52).
53. 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 (P.53).
54. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against
Kuwait (P.54).
55. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations (P.55).
56. Launching of global negotiations on international economic
cooperation for development (P.56).
57. Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte (P.57).
58. Strengthening of the United Nations system (P.58).
59. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the
membership of the Security Council and related matters (P.59).
60. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly (P.60).
61. Restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the
economic, social and related fields (P.61).
62. Question of Cyprus (P.63).
63. Role of science and technology in the context of international
security, disarmament and other related fields (P.64).
64. Maintenance of international security -- prevention of the
violent disintegration of States (P.65).
65. Reduction of military budgets (P.66):
(a) Reduction of military budgets;
(b) Objective information on military matters, including
transparency of military expenditures.
66. Role of science and technology in the context of international
security and disarmament (P.67).
67. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of
the Middle East (P.68).
68. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia
(P.69).
69. Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure
non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of
nuclear weapons (P.70).
70. Prevention of an arms race in outer space (P.71).
71. General and complete disarmament (P.72):
(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: report of the
Secretary-General;
(c) Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva
Protocol;
(d) Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling,
Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on
Their Destruction;
(e) Transparency in armaments;
(f) Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in
small arms and collecting them;
(g) Relationship between disarmament and development;
(h) Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and
implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms
control;
(i) Convening of the fourth special session of the General
Assembly devoted to disarmament;
(j) Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament
measures;
(k) Contributions towards banning anti-personnel landmines;
(l) Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes;
(m) Small arms;
(n) Nuclear disarmament;
(o) Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent
areas;
(p) Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International
Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of
Nuclear Weapons;
(q) Regional disarmament;
(r) Conventional arms control at the regional and
subregional levels;
(s) Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central
Asia;
(t) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of
the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of
Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction.
72. Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the
Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly (P.73):
(a) United Nations Disarmament Information Programme;
(b) United Nations disarmament fellowship training and
advisory services;
(c) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament
in Asia and the Pacific;
(d) Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the
United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security
Questions in Central Africa;
(e) Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear
Weapons.
73. Review of the implementation of the recommendations and
decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special
session (P.74):
(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.
74. The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East (P.75).
75. 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 (P.76).
76. Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean
region (P.77).
77. Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the
Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco) (P.78).
78. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production
and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin
Weapons and on Their Destruction (P.79).
79. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (P.80).
80. Rationalization of the work and reform of the agenda of the
First Committee (P.81).
81. Effects of atomic radiation (P.82).
82. International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space
(P.83).
83. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
in the Near East (P.84).
84. Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli
Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People
and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories (P.85).
85. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping
operations in all their aspects (P.86).
86. Questions relating to information (P.87).
87. Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted
under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations (P.88).
88. Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the
peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories (P.89). 4/
89. 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 (P.90).
90. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for
inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories (P.91).
91. Macroeconomic policy questions (P.94):
(a) Trade and development;
(b) Financing of development, including net transfer of
resources between developing and developed countries;
(c) Commodities;
(d) External debt crisis and development.
92. Sectoral policy questions (P.95):
(a) Business and development;
(b) Industrial development cooperation.
93. Sustainable development and international economic cooperation
(P.96):
(a) Implementation of and follow-up to major consensus
agreements on development:
(i) Implementation of the commitments and policies
agreed upon in the Declaration on International
Economic Cooperation, in particular the
Revitalization of the Economic Growth and
Development of the Developing Countries;
(ii) Implementation of the International Development
Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development
Decade;
(b) Integration of the economies in transition into the
world economy;
(c) Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations
Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II);
(d) Renewal of the dialogue on strengthening international
economic cooperation for development through
partnership;
(e) Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least
Developed Countries for the 1990s;
(f) Implementation of the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development;
(g) Cultural development.
94. Environment and sustainable development (P.97):
(a) Implementation of and follow-up to the outcome of the
United Nations Conference on Environment and
Development, including the outcome of the
nineteenth special session of the General Assembly for
the purpose of an overall review and appraisal of the
implementation of Agenda 21;
(b) Protection of global climate for present and future
generations of mankind;
(c) Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference
on
the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing
States;
(d) Convention on Biological Diversity;
(e) Implementation of the United Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing
Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in
Africa.
95. Operational activities for development (P.98).
96. Training and research (P.99):
(a) United Nations University;
(b) United Nations Institute for Training and Research.
97. Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the occupied
Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and of the Arab
population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural
resources (P.100).
98. Implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the
Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006) (P.101).
99. Commemorative meeting of the twentieth anniversary of the
adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and
Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries
(P.102).
100. Social development, including questions relating to the world
social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the
family (P.103).
101. Crime prevention and criminal justice (P.104).
102. International drug control (P.105).
103. Advancement of women (P.106).
104. Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on
Women (P.107).
105. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
questions relating to refugees and displaced persons and
humanitarian questions (P.108).
106. Promotion and protection of the rights of children (P.109).
107. Programme of activities of the International Decade of the
World's Indigenous People (P.110).
108. Elimination of racism and racial discrimination (P.111).
109. Right of peoples to self-determination (P.112).
110. Human rights questions (P.113):
(a) Implementation of human rights instruments;
(b) Human rights questions, including alternative approaches
for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights
and fundamental freedoms;
(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;
(e) Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights.
111. Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports
of the Board of Auditors (P.114):
(a) United Nations;
(b) United Nations Development Programme;
(c) United Nations Children's Fund;
(d) United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East;
(e) United Nations Institute for Training and Research;
(f) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees;
(g) Fund of the United Nations Environment Programme;
(h) United Nations Population Fund;
(i) United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation;
(j) Fund of the United Nations International Drug Control
Programme;
(k) United Nations Office for Project Services.
112. Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial
functioning of the United Nations (P.115).
113. Programme budget for the biennium 1998 1999 (P.116).
114. Programme planning (P.117).
115. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations
(P.118).
116. Administrative and budgetary coordination of the United Nations
with the specialized agencies and the International Atomic
Energy Agency (P.119).
117. Pattern of conferences (P.120).
118. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of
the United Nations (P.121).
119. Human resources management (P.122).
120. United Nations common system (P.123).
121. United Nations pension system (P.124).
122. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the
Middle East (P.125):
(a) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force;
(b) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
123. Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and
the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola (P.126).
124. Financing of the activities arising from Security Council
resolution 687 (1991) (P.127):
(a) United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission;
(b) Other activities.
125. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in
Western Sahara (P.128).
126. Financing and liquidation of the United Nations Transitional
Authority in Cambodia (P.129).
127. 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 (P.130).
128. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II
(P.131).
129. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique
(P.132).
130. Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
(P.133).
131. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia
(P.134).
132. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Haiti (P.135).
133. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia
(P.136).
134. Financing of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda
(P.137).
135. 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 (P.138).
136. Financing of the United Nations Mission of Observers in
Tajikistan (P.139).
137. 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 (P.140).
138. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and
Herzegovina (P.141).
139. Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration for
Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium and the Civilian
Police Support Group (P.142).
140. Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force
(P.143).
141. Financing of the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti, the
United Nations Transition Mission in Haiti and the United
Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti (P.144).
142. Financing of the Military Observer Group of the United Nations
Verification Mission in Guatemala (P.145).
143. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the
United Nations peacekeeping operations (P.146):
(a) Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations;
(b) Relocation of Ukraine to the group of Member States set
out in paragraph 3 (c) of General Assembly resolution
43/232.
144. Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Office
of Internal Oversight Services (P.147 (a)).
145. Review of the implementation of General Assembly resolution
48/218 B (P.147 (b)).
146. Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of
1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed
conflicts (P.148).
147. Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection,
security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and
representatives (P.149).
148. Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their
property (P.150).
149. United Nations Decade of International Law (P.151):
(a) United Nations Decade of International Law;
(b) Progress in the action dedicated to the 1999 centennial
of the first International Peace Conference and to the
closing of the United Nations Decade of International
Law;
(c) Draft guiding principles for international negotiations.
150. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its
fiftieth session (P.152).
151. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade
Law on the work of its thirty-first session (P.153).
152. Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country
(P.154).
153. Establishment of an international criminal court (P.155).
154. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United
Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the
Organization (P.156).
155. Measures to eliminate international terrorism (P.157).
156. Review of the Statute of the Administrative Tribunal of the
United Nations (P.158).
157. Bethlehem 2000 (P.159). 5/
158. World Solar Programme 1996-2005 (P.160). 6/
159. Observer status for the Association of Caribbean States in the
General Assembly (P.161). 7/
160. Global implications of the year 2000 date conversion problem of
computers (P.162).
161. Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Central African
Republic (P.163).
162. Observer status for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation
and Development in the General Assembly (P.164). 8/
163. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra
Leone (S.1). 9/
164. Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace
and sustainable development in Africa (A.1). 10/
165. Joint Inspection Unit (decision 52/467 C of 8 September 1998).
166. Election of judges 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 (decision 52/501 of 8
September 1998).
V. Allocation of items
59. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/53/1, para.
48), the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to paragraph
4 of its decision 34/401 (A/520/Rev.15, annex VI), which reads as follows:
"4. Substantive items should normally be discussed initially in
a Main Committee and, therefore, items previously allocated to
plenary meetings should henceforth be referred to a Main
Committee unless there are compelling circumstances requiring
their continued consideration in plenary meeting."
The General Committee also draws the attention of the Assembly to paragraph 3
of annex I to resolution 48/264 and to the relevant paragraphs of resolutions
39/88 B and 45/45 (A/520/Rev.15 and Amend.1, annexes VII and VIII). Paragraph
5 of the annex to resolution 39/88 B reads as follows:
"5. The Chairmen of the Main Committees should take the
initiative, in the light of past experience, to propose the
grouping of similar or related items and the holding of a
single general debate on them."
Paragraph 6 of the annex to resolution 45/45 reads as follows:
"6. In making recommendations as to how agenda items should be
allocated to the Main Committees and the plenary of the General
Assembly, the General Committee should ensure the best use of
the expertise of the Committees."
In this connection, the General Committee also draws the General Assembly's
attention to paragraphs 2 and 5 (b) and (d) of annex I to resolution 48/264,
which read as follows:
"2. Agenda items which are of a nature that relates to more
than one Main Committee or which do not come within the purview of
any Main Committee should be considered by the General Assembly in
plenary meeting, taking into account the recommendations of the
General Committee.
"...
"5. The Main Committees should be encouraged to continue with
the review of their respective agendas, taking into account, inter
alia, the following:
"...
"(b) Items that cover related matters or issues could be
considered in agreed clusters;
"...
"(d) The existing broad division of work among the Main
Committees should be maintained."
60. Taking into account the recommendations in section IV above
regarding the inclusion of items in the agenda, the General Committee approved
the allocation of items contained in paragraph 61 of the Secretary-General's
memorandum (A/BUR/53/1 and Add.1) with the following modifications:
(a) Plenary meetings
(i) Item 10 (Report of the Secretary-General on the
work of the Organization)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the
General Assembly that, as was done at the last
session, it should hear a brief presentation by
the Secretary-General on his annual report
(A/53/1) as the first item in the morning
prior to the opening of the general debate on
Monday, 21 September.
(ii) Item 18 (Implementation of the Declaration on the
Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries
and Peoples)
The General Committee decided to recommend that the General
Assembly should refer to the Special Political and
Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) chapters of the
report of the Special Committee (A/53/23) 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.
(iii) Item 46 (a) (Fiftieth anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights)
and item 110 (b) (Human rights questions,
including alternative approaches for improving
the effective enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General
Assembly that, in the light of decision 52/424 of 12 December
1997, the ceremony for the awarding of prizes in the field of
human rights in 1998 should be held on Thursday, 10 December
1998, on the occasion of the celebration of the fiftieth
anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, in
plenary meeting.
(iv) Item 49 (Question of the Falkland Islands
(Malvinas))
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General
Assembly that the item should be considered 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.
(v) Item 62 (Question of Cyprus)
The General Committee decided to recommend that the General
Assembly allocate the item at an appropriate time during the
session.
(vi) Item 99 (Commemorative meeting of the twentieth
anniversary of the adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action
for Promoting and Implementing Technical Cooperation among
Developing Countries)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General
Assembly that, in the light of paragraph 9 of resolution 52/205
of 18 December 1997, the commemorative meeting to mark the
occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the adoption of the
Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and Implementing
Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries should be
held on Wednesday, 7 October 1998, in the morning.
(vii) Item 157 (Bethlehem 2000)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the
General Assembly that the item should be considered directly in
plenary meeting.
(viii) Item 158 (World Solar Programme 1996 2005)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the
General Assembly that the item should be considered directly in
plenary meeting.
(ix) Item 159 (Observer status for the Association of
Caribbean States in the General Assembly)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the
General Assembly that the item should be considered directly in
plenary meeting.
(x) Item 162 (Observer status for the Organisation
for Economic Cooperation and Development in the General
Assembly)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General
Assembly that the item should be considered directly in plenary
meeting.
(xi) Item 164 (Causes of conflict and the promotion of
durable peace and sustainable development in Africa)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General
Assembly that the item should be considered directly in plenary
meeting.
(b) First Committee
Item 71 (General and complete disarmament)
The General Committee decided to recommend that the
relevant paragraphs of the annual report of the International
Atomic Energy Agency (A/53/286), which is to be considered
directly in plenary meeting under item 14, should be drawn to
the attention of the First Committee in connection with
its consideration of item 71.
(c) Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee)
Item 85 (Comprehensive review of the whole question of
peacekeeping operations in all their aspects)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General
Assembly that, in the light of paragraph 2 of resolution 52/69
of 10 December 1997, the commemorative meeting to mark the
fiftieth anniversary of United Nations peacekeeping should be
held on Tuesday, 6 October 1998, in the morning.
(d) Second Committee
Item 93 (d) (Renewal of the dialogue on strengthening
international economic cooperation for development through
partnership)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General
Assembly that, in the light of resolution 50/122 of 20 December
1997 and decision 52/480 of 4 June 1998, the high-level
dialogue on the theme of the social and economic impact of
globalization and interdependence and their policy
implications should be held on Thursday, 17 September and
Friday, 18 September 1998.
(e) Third Committee
Item 103 (Advancement of women)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General
Assembly 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 95 (Operational activities for development).
(f) Fifth Committee
(i) Item 163 (Financing of the United Nations
Observer Mission in Sierra Leone)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General
Assembly that the item should be allocated to the Fifth
Committee.
(ii) Item 165 (Joint Inspection Unit)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General
Assembly that the item should be allocated 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 also referred to those Committees.
61. Taking into account paragraphs 59 and 60 above, the
General Committee recommends to the General Assembly the
adoption of the following allocation of items: 11/
Plenary meetings
1. Opening of the session by the Chairman of the delegation of
Ukraine (D.1).
2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation (D.2).
3. Credentials of representatives to the fifty-third session of the
General Assembly (D.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 (D.4).
5. Election of the officers of the Main Committees (D.5).
6. Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly (D.6).
7. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph
2, of the Charter of the United Nations (D.7).
8. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work: reports of the
General Committee (D.8).
9. General debate (D.9).
10. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization
(D.10). 12/
11. Report of the Security Council (D.11).
12. Report of the Economic and Social Council [chapters I to VII
and VIII (sections A to C), IX and X] (D.12). 13/
13. Report of the International Court of Justice (D.13).
14. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (D.14). 14/
15. Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs (D.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 (D.16):
(a) Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme
and Coordination;
(b) Election of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees.
17. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other
appointments (D.17): 15/
(g) Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences;
(h) Appointment of a member of the Joint Inspection Unit;
(i) Confirmation of the appointment of the Secretary-General
of the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development;
(j) Appointment of the Under-Secretary-General for Internal
Oversight Services.
18. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of
Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (D.18). 16/
19. Admission of new Members to the United Nations (D.19).
20. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster
relief assistance of the United Nations, including special
economic assistance (D.20):
(a) Strengthening of the coordination of emergency
humanitarian assistance of the United Nations;
(b) Special economic assistance to individual countries or
regions; 3/
(c) Emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy
and reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan;
(d) Assistance to the Palestinian people.
21. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of
American States (D.21).
22. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Asian-African
Legal Consultative Committee (D.22).
23. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean
Community (D.23).
24. Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the
Development of Africa in the 1990s, including measures and
recommendations agreed upon at its mid-term review (D.24).
25. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American
Economic System (D.25).
26. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of
the Islamic Conference (D.26).
27. Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab
States (D.27).
28. Cooperation between the United Nations and the
Inter-Parliamentary Union (D.28).
29. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial
embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba
(D.29).
30. United Nations reform: measures and proposals (D.30).
31. Culture of peace (D.31).
32. Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic (D.32).
33. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of
Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored
democracies (D.33).
34. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic
Cooperation Organization (D.34).
35. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of
African Unity (D.35).
36. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe (D.36).
37. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social
Development (D.37).
38. Oceans and the law of the sea (D.38):
(a) Law of the sea;
(b) Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing, unauthorized
fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and on the
high seas, fisheries by-catch and discards, and other
developments.
39. Question of Palestine (D.39).
40. The situation in the Middle East (D.40).
41. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (D.41).
42. Assistance in mine clearance (D.42).
43. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti (D.43).
44. 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 (D.44).
45. The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for
international peace and security (D.45).
46. Fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights (D.46): 17/
(a) Fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights;
(b) Fiftieth anniversary of the Convention on the Prevention
and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
47. Election of the judges 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 (D.47).
48. 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 (D.48).
49. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (D.49). 18/
50. 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 (D.50).
51. Elimination of coercive economic measures as a means of
political and economic compulsion (D.51).
52. 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 (D.52).
53. 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 (D.53).
54. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against
Kuwait (D.54).
55. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations (D.55).
56. Launching of global negotiations on international economic
cooperation for development (D.56).
57. Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte (D.57).
58. Strengthening of the United Nations system (D.58).
59. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the
membership of the Security Council and related matters (D.59).
60. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly (D.60).
61. Restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the
economic, social and related fields (D.61).
62. Commemorative meeting of the twentieth anniversary of the
adoption of the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and
Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries
(D.99). 19/
63. Bethlehem 2000 (D.157). 20/
64. World Solar Programme 1996 2005 (D.158). 21/
65. Observer status for the Association of Caribbean States in the
General Assembly (D.159). 22/
66. Global implications of the year 2000 date conversion problem of
computers (D.160).
67. Observer status for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation
and Development in the General Assembly (D.162). 23/
68. Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and
sustainable development in Africa (D.164). 24/
69. Election of judges 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 (D.166).
70. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping
operations in all their aspects (D.85). 25/
71. Sustainable development and international economic cooperation
(D.93):
(d) Renewal of the dialogue on strengthening international
economic cooperation for development through
partnership. 26/
First Committee
1. Role of science and technology in the context of international
security, disarmament and other related fields (D.63).
2. Maintenance of international security -- prevention of
the violent disintegration of States (D.64).
3. Reduction of military budgets (D.65):
(a) Reduction of military budgets;
(b) Objective information on military matters, including
transparency of military expenditures.
4. Role of science and technology in the context of international
security and disarmament (D.66).
5. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the
Middle East (D.67).
6. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia (D.68).
7. Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure
non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of
nuclear weapons (D.69).
8. Prevention of an arms race in outer space (D.70).
9. General and complete disarmament (D.71): 27/
(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: report of the
Secretary-General;
(c) Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva
Protocol;
(d) Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling,
Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on
Their Destruction;
(e) Transparency in armaments;
(f) Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in
small arms and collecting them;
(g) Relationship between disarmament and development;
(h) Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and
implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms
control;
(i) Convening of the fourth special session of the General
Assembly devoted to Disarmament;
(j) Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament
measures;
(k) Contributions towards banning anti-personnel landmines;
(l) Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes;
(m) Small arms;
(n) Nuclear disarmament;
(o) Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas;
(p) Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International
Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of
Nuclear Weapons;
(q) Regional disarmament;
(r) Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional
levels;
(s) Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central
Asia;
(t) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the
Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical
Weapons and on Their Destruction.
10. Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the
Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly (D.72):
(a) United Nations Disarmament Information Programme;
(b) United Nations disarmament fellowship training and
advisory services;
(c) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament
in Asia and the Pacific;
(d) Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the
United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security
Questions in Central Africa;
(e) Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear
Weapons.
11. Review of the implementation of the recommendations and
decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special
session (D.73):
(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.
12. The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East (D.74).
13. 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 (D.75).
14. Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean
region (D.76).
15. Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the
Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco) (D.77).
16. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production
and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin
Weapons and on Their Destruction (D.78).
17. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (D.79).
18. Rationalization of the work and reform of the agenda of the
First Committee (D.80).
Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee)
1. Effects of atomic radiation (D.81).
2. International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space
(D.82).
3. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in
the Near East (D.83).
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 (D.84).
5. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping
operations in all their aspects (D.85). 28/
6. Questions relating to information (D.86).
7. Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under
Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations (D.87).
8. Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the
peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories (D.88). 29/
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
(D.89).
10. Report of the Economic and Social Council [chapter VIII
(section D)] (D.12).
11. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for
inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories (D.90).
12. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of
Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (D.18). 30/
13. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (D.49). 31/
Second Committee
1. Report of the Economic and Social Council [chapters I to V, VIII
(sections A to C and E to H) and X] (D.12). 32/
2. Macroeconomic policy questions (D.91):
(a) Trade and development;
(b) Financing of development, including net transfer of
resources between developing and developed countries;
(c) Commodities;
(d) External debt crisis and development.
3. Sectoral policy questions (D.92):
(a) Business and development;
(b) Industrial development cooperation.
4. Sustainable development and international economic cooperation
(D.93):
(a) Implementation of and follow-up to major consensus
agreements on development:
(i) Implementation of the commitments and policies agreed
upon in the Declaration on International Economic
Cooperation, in particular the Revitalization of the
Economic Growth and Development of the Developing
Countries;
(ii) Implementation of the International Development
Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development
Decade;
(b) Integration of the economies in transition into the world
economy;
(c) Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations
Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II);
(d) Renewal of the dialogue on strengthening international
economic cooperation for development through partnership;
33/
(e) Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least
Developed Countries for the 1990s;
(f) Implementation of the Programme of Action of the
International Conference on Population and Development;
(g) Cultural development.
5. Environment and sustainable development (D.94):
(a) Implementation of and follow-up to the outcome of the
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development,
including the outcome of the nineteenth special session of
the General Assembly for the purpose of an overall
review and appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21;
(b) Protection of global climate for present and future
generations of mankind;
(c) Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on
the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing
States;
(d) Convention on Biological Diversity;
(e) Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious
Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa.
6. Operational activities for development (D.95). 34/
7. Training and research (D.96):
(a) United Nations University;
(b) United Nations Institute for Training and Research.
8. Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the occupied
Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and of the Arab
population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural
resources (D.97).
9. Implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the
Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006) (D.98).
Third Committee
1. Report of the Economic and Social Council [chapters I, III, V, VI,
VIII (sections A, C and I) and X] (D.12). 35/
2. Social development, including questions relating to the world
social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the
family (D.100).
3. Crime prevention and criminal justice (D.101).
4. International drug control (D.102).
5. Advancement of women (D.103). 36/
6. Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on
Women (D.104).
7. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
questions relating to refugees and displaced persons and
humanitarian questions (D.105).
8. Promotion and protection of the rights of children (D.106).
9. Programme of activities of the International Decade of the World's
Indigenous People (D.107).
10. Elimination of racism and racial discrimination (D.108).
11. Right of peoples to self-determination (D.109).
12. Human rights questions (D.110):
(a) Implementation of human rights instruments;
(b) Human rights questions, including alternative approaches
for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights
and fundamental freedoms; 37/
(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;
(e) Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human
Rights.
Fifth Committee
1. Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of
the Board of Auditors (D.111):
(a) United Nations;
(b) United Nations Development Programme;
(c) United Nations Children's Fund;
(d) United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East;
(e) United Nations Institute for Training and Research;
(f) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees;
(g) Fund of the United Nations Environment Programme;
(h) United Nations Population Fund;
(i) United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation;
(j) Fund of the United Nations International Drug Control
Programme;
(k) United Nations Office for Project Services.
2. Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial
functioning of the United Nations (D.112).
3. Programme budget for the biennium 1998 1999 (D.113).
4. Programme planning (D.114).
5. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations (D.115).
6. Administrative and budgetary coordination of the United Nations
with the specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy
Agency (D.116).
7. Pattern of conferences (D.117).
8. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the
United Nations (D.118).
9. Human resources management (D.119).
10. United Nations common system (D.120).
11. United Nations pension system (D.121).
12. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the
Middle East (D.122):
(a) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force;
(b) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
13. Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and
the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola (D.123).
14. Financing of the activities arising from Security Council
resolution 687 (1991) (D.124):
(a) United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission;
(b) Other activities.
15. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in
Western Sahara (D.125).
16. Financing and liquidation of the United Nations Transitional
Authority in Cambodia (D.126).
17. 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 (D.127).
18. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II
(D.128).
19. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique
(D.129).
20. Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
(D.130).
21. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia
(D.131).
22. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Haiti (D.132).
23. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia
(D.133).
24. Financing of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda
(D.134).
25. 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 (D.135).
26. Financing of the United Nations Mission of Observers in
Tajikistan (D.136).
27. 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
(D.137).
28. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and
Herzegovina (D.138).
29. Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration for
Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium and the Civilian
Police Support Group (D.139).
30. Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force
(D.140).
31. Financing of the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti, the
United Nations Transition Mission in Haiti and the United
Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti (D.141).
32. Financing of the Military Observer Group of the United Nations
Verification Mission in Guatemala (D.142).
33. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the
United Nations peacekeeping operations (D.143):
(a) Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations;
(b) Relocation of Ukraine to the group of Member States set
out in paragraph 3 (c) of General Assembly resolution
43/232.
34. Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Office
of Internal Oversight Services (D.144).
35. Review of the implementation of General Assembly resolution
48/218 B (D.145).
36. Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Central African
Republic (D.161).
37. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra
Leone (D.163). 38/
38. Joint Inspection Unit (D.165). 39/
39. Report of the Economic and Social Council [chapters I, VIII
(sections B and C) and X] (D.12). 40/
40. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other
appointments (D.17): 41/
(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;
(f) International Civil Service Commission:
(i) Appointment of members of the Commission;
(ii) Designation of the Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the
Commission.
Sixth Committee
1. Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of
1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts
(D.146).
2. Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection,
security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and
representatives (D.147).
3. Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their
property (D.148).
4. United Nations Decade of International Law (D.149):
(a) United Nations Decade of International Law;
(b) Progress in the action dedicated to the 1999 centennial of
the first International Peace Conference and to the closing
of the United Nations Decade of International Law;
(c) Draft guiding principles for international negotiations.
5. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its
fiftieth session (D.150).
6. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
on the work of its thirty-first session (D.151).
7. Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country
(D.152).
8. Establishment of an international criminal court (D.153).
9. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United
Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization
(D.154).
10. Measures to eliminate international terrorism (D.155).
11. Review of the Statute of the Administrative Tribunal of the
United Nations (D.156).
Notes
1/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-first Session, Supplement
No. 49 (A/41/49).
2/ Abbreviations used in the present document:
(P. ): item on the provisional agenda (A/53/150);
(S. ): item on the supplementary list (A/53/200);
(A. ): additional item (A/53/231).
3/ See para. 56.
4/ See para. 47.
5/ See para. 50.
6/ See para. 51.
7/ See para. 52.
8/ See para. 53.
9/ See para. 55.
10/See para. 57.
11/The numbering in parentheses used in the allocation of items (D. ) follows
the draft agenda in section IV (para. 58).
12/See para. 60 (a) (I).
13/The chapters of the report listed below would be referred also to the
Second, Third and Fifth Committees, as follows:
(a) Chapters I, VIII (section C) and X .....Second, Third and Fifth
Committees
(b) Chapters II and IV .....................Second Committee
(c) Chapters III, V and VIII (section A) ...Second and Third Committees
(d) Chapter VI .............................Third Committee
(e) Chapter VIII (section B) ...............Second and Fifth Committees
14/See para. 60 (b).
15/For sub-items (a) to (f), see "Fifth Committee", item 40.
16/See para. 60 (a) (ii).
17/See para. 60 (a) (iii).
18/See para. 60 (a) (iv).
19/ See para. 60 (a) (vi).
20/ See para. 60 (a) (vii).
21/ See para. 60 (a) (viii).
22/ See para. 60 (a) (ix).
23/ See para. 60 (a) (x).
24/ See para. 60 (a) (xi).
25/ See para. 60 (c).
26/ See para. 60 (d).
27/ See para. 60 (b).
28/ See para. 60 (c).
29/ See para. 47.
30/ See para. 60 (a) (ii).
31/ See para. 60 (a) (iv).
32/ The chapters of the report listed below would be referred also to plenary
meetings and to the Third and Fifth Committees, as follows:
(a) Chapters I, VIII (section C) and X ... Plenary meetings and
Third and Fifth Committees
(b) Chapters II and IV ....................Plenary meetings
(c) Chapters III, V and VIII (section A) ..Plenary meetings and Third
Committee
(d) Chapter VIII (section B) ..............Plenary meetings and Fifth
Committee
33/See para. 60 (d).
34/See para. 60 (e).
35/ The chapters of the report listed below would be referred also to plenary
meetings and to the Second and Fifth Committees, as follows:
(a) Chapters I, VIII (section C) and X .... Plenary meetings and Second
and Fifth Committees
(b) Chapters III, V and VIII (section A) ...Plenary meetings and Second
Committee
(c) Chapter VI .............................Plenary meetings
36/ See para. 60 (e).
37/ See para. 60 (a) (iii).
38/ See para. 60 (f) (I).
39/ See para. 60 (f) (ii).
40/ The chapters of the report listed below would be referred also to plenary
meetings and to the Second and Third Committees, as follows:
(a) Chapters I, VIII (section C) and X ..... Plenary meetings, Second
and Third Committees
(b) Chapter VIII (section B) ................Plenary meetings and Second
Committee
41/ For sub-items (g) to (j), see "Plenary meetings", item 17.