I. Organizational, administrative and other matter
Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly
This item, which was included in the agenda of the forty-sixth session of the General Assembly, in 1991, had originally been proposed for inclusion in the draft agenda of that session by the President of the Assembly at its forty-fifth session (see decision 45/461).
The General Assembly considered the question at its forty-sixth to forty-eighth, fifty-second and fifty-third sessions (resolutions 46/77, 47/233 and 48/264 and decisions 52/479 and 53/491).
At its fifty-fourth session, the General Assembly decided to defer consideration of the item and to include it in the draft agenda of its subsequent session (decision 54/491).
The General Assembly continued its consideration of the item from its fifty-fifth to fifty-eighth sessions (resolutions 55/285, 56/509, 57/301 and 58/126, annex).
At its resumed fifty-eighth session, in July 2004, the General Assembly adopted a number of measures, inter alia, to reorganize the agenda of the Assembly; and decided to review the provisions of the reorganized agenda at its sixty-first session with a view to making further improvements (resolution 58/316).
At its sixty-second session, the General Assembly adopted the proposed programme of work and timetable of the First Committee for 2008 (decision 62/515), the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) (decision 62/524), the draft programmes of work of the Second Committee (decision 62/543) and the Third Committee (decision 62/535) and the provisional programme of work of the Sixth Committee (decision 62/517) for the sixty-third session.
At its resumed sixty-second session, in September 2008, the General Assembly decided to establish, at its sixty-third session, an ad hoc working group on the revitalization of the General Assembly, open to all Member States, in order, inter alia, to submit a report thereon to the Assembly at its sixty-third session (resolution 62/276).
No advance documentation is expected.
References for the sixty-second session (agenda item 121)
- Report of the Secretary-General A/62/915 and Add.1
- Report of the Ad Hoc Working Group on the Revitalization of the General Assembly (A/62/952)
- Verbatim record A/C.1/62/PV.25
- Summary records A/C.2/62/SR.35, A/C.3/62/SR.54, A/C.4/62/SR.23 and A/C.6/62/SR.28
- Report of the First Committee A/62/399
- Report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) A/62/413
- Report of the Second Committee A/62/427
- Report of the Third Committee A/62/442
- Report of the Sixth Committee A/62/456
- Plenary meetings A/62/PV. 61, 62, 75, 77, 78 and 122
- Resolution 62/276
- Decisions 62/515, 62/517, 62/524, 62/535 and 62/543
Source: A/63/100