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General Assembly
Distr. GENERAL
15 September 1998
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A/53/251
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General Assembly
Fifty-third session
Agenda of the fifty-third session of the General Assembly
Adopted by the General Assembly at its 3rd plenary meeting, on
15 September 1998
1. Opening of the session by the Chairman of the delegation of
Ukraine.
2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation.
3. Credentials of representatives to the fifty-third session of the
General Assembly:
(a) Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee;
(b) Report of the Credentials Committee.
4. Election of the President of the General Assembly.
5. Election of the officers of the Main Committees.
6. Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly.
7. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph
2, of the Charter of the United Nations.
8. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work: reports of the
General Committee.
9. General debate.
10. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the
Organization.
11. Report of the Security Council.
12. Report of the Economic and Social Council.
13. Report of the International Court of Justice.
14. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency.
15. Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs:
(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:
(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:
(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.
19. Admission of new Members to the United Nations.
20. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster
relief assistance of the United Nations, including special
economic assistance:
(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.
22. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Asian-African
Legal Consultative Committee.
23. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean
Community.
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.
25. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American
Economic System.
26. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of
the Islamic Conference.
27. Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab
States.
28. Cooperation between the United Nations and the
Inter-Parliamentary Union.
29. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial
embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.
30. United Nations reform: measures and proposals.
31. Culture of peace.
32. Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic.
33. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of
Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored
democracies.
34. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic
Cooperation Organization.
35. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of
African Unity.
36. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for
Security and Cooperation in Europe.
37. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social
Development.
38. Oceans and the law of the sea:
(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.
40. The situation in the Middle East.
41. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
42. Assistance in mine clearance.
43. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti.
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.
45. The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for
international peace and security.
46. Fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights:
(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.
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.
49. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).
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.
51. Elimination of coercive economic measures as a means of
political and economic compulsion.
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.
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.
54. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against
Kuwait.
55. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations.
56. Launching of global negotiations on international economic
cooperation for development.
57. Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte.
58. Strengthening of the United Nations system.
59. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the
membership of the Security Council and related matters.
60. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly.
61. Restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the
economic, social and related fields.
62. Question of Cyprus.
63. Role of science and technology in the context of international
security, disarmament and other related fields.
64. Maintenance of international security -- prevention of the
violent disintegration of States.
65. Reduction of military budgets:
(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.
67. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of
the Middle East.
68. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia.
69. Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure
non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of
nuclear weapons.
70. Prevention of an arms race in outer space.
71. General and complete disarmament:
(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:
(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:
(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.
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.
76. Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean
region.
77. Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the
Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the
Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco).
78. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production
and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin
Weapons and on Their Destruction.
79. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
80. Rationalization of the work and reform of the agenda of the
First Committee.
81. Effects of atomic radiation.
82. International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space.
83. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
in the Near East.
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.
85. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping
operations in all their aspects.
86. Questions relating to information.
87. Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted
under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations.
88. Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the
peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories.
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.
90. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for
inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories.
91. Macroeconomic policy questions:
(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:
(a) Business and development;
(b) Industrial development cooperation.
93. Sustainable development and international economic cooperation:
(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:
(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.
96. Training and research:
(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.
98. Implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the
Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006).
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.
100. Social development, including questions relating to the world
social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the
family.
101. Crime prevention and criminal justice.
102. International drug control.
103. Advancement of women.
104. Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on
Women.
105. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees:
questions relating to refugees and displaced persons and
humanitarian questions.
106. Promotion and protection of the rights of children.
107. Programme of activities of the International Decade of the
World's Indigenous People.
108. Elimination of racism and racial discrimination.
109. Right of peoples to self-determination.
110. Human rights questions:
(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:
(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.
113. Programme budget for the biennium 1998 1999.
114. Programme planning.
115. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations.
116. Administrative and budgetary coordination of the United Nations
with the specialized agencies and the International Atomic
Energy Agency.
117. Pattern of conferences.
118. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of
the United Nations.
119. Human resources management.
120. United Nations common system.
121. United Nations pension system.
122. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the
Middle East:
(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.
124. Financing of the activities arising from Security Council
resolution 687 (1991):
(a) United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission;
(b) Other activities.
125. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in
Western Sahara .
126. Financing and liquidation of the United Nations Transitional
Authority in Cambodia.
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.
128. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II.
129. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique.
130. Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.
131. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia.
132. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Haiti.
133. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia.
134. Financing of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda.
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.
136. Financing of the United Nations Mission of Observers in
Tajikistan.
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.
138. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and
Herzegovina.
139. Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration for
Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium and the Civilian
Police Support Group.
140. Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force.
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.
142. Financing of the Military Observer Group of the United Nations
Verification Mission in Guatemala.
143. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the
United Nations peacekeeping operations:
(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.
145. Review of the implementation of General Assembly resolution
48/218 B.
146. Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of
1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed
conflicts.
147. Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection,
security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and
representatives.
148. Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their
property.
149. United Nations Decade of International Law:
(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.
151. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade
Law on the work of its thirty-first session.
152. Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country.
153. Establishment of an international criminal court.
154. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United
Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the
Organization.
155. Measures to eliminate international terrorism.
156. Review of the Statute of the Administrative Tribunal of the
United Nations.
157. Bethlehem 2000.
158. World Solar Programme 1996 2005.
159. Observer status for the Association of Caribbean States in the
General Assembly .
160. Global implications of the year 2000 date conversion problem of
computers.
161. Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Central African
Republic.
162. Observer status for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation
and Development in the General Assembly.
163. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Sierra
Leone.
164. Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and
sustainable development in Africa.
165. Joint Inspection Unit.
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.
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