Sixth Committee (Legal) — 69th session
Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly (Agenda item 118)
- Authority: resolution 68/307
Summary of work
Background (source: A/69/100/Add.1)
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 sixty-eighth sessions (resolutions 55/285, 56/509, 57/301, 58/126, annex, 61/292, 62/276, 63/309, 64/301, 65/315, 66/294, 67/297 and 68/307).
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-eighth session, the General Assembly adopted, inter alia, the provisional programme of work of the Sixth Committee (decision 68/526) for the sixty-ninth session.
Consideration at the sixty-ninth session
At its 2nd plenary meeting, on 19 September 2014, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the General Committee, decided to allocate the item to all the Main Committees for the sole purpose of considering and taking action on their respective tentative programmes of work for the seventieth session of the General Assembly.
The Sixth Committee considered the item at its 29th meeting, on 14 November 2014 (see A/C.6/69/SR.29).
Action taken by the Sixth Committee
At the 29th meeting, on 14 November, the Chair introduced a draft decision containing the provisional programme of work of the Committee for the seventieth session of the General Assembly, as proposed by the Bureau (A/C.6/69/L.16), and orally revised it by adding 16 November as the date for the consideration of the item “Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country” and deleting 17 November as a reserved date. Statements were made by the representatives of Costa Rica, on behalf of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC), Nicaragua and Cuba (see A/C.6/69/SR.29).
At the same meeting, the Committee adopted draft decision A/C.6/69/L.16, as orally revised. Under this draft decision, the General Assembly would note the decision of the Sixth Committee to adopt the provisional programme of work for the seventieth session of the General Assembly, as proposed by the Bureau.
Subsequent action taken by the General Assembly
- Report of the Sixth Committee: A/69/507
- GA decision: 69/529 [for the text of the decision, see the Sixth Committee's report to the General Assembly]
This agenda item will be considered at the seventieth session (2015).
