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AGENDA OF THE FIFTY-SECOND REGULAR SESSION OF THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Adopted by the General Assembly at its 4th plenary meeting,
on 19 September 1997
1. Opening of the session by the Chairman of the delegation of Malaysia.
2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation.
3. Credentials of representatives to the fifty-second 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 twenty-nine members of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme;
(b) Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination;
(c) Election of nineteen members of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law;
(d) Election of the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
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) Appointment of members of the International Civil Service Commission;
(g) Appointment of members and alternate members of the United Nations Staff Pension Committee;
(h) Appointment of the members of the Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women;
(i) Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences;
(j) Appointment of a member of the Joint Inspection Unit.
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;
(e) Participation of volunteers, "White Helmets", in activities of the United Nations in the field of humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and technical cooperation for development;
(f) Strengthening of international cooperation and coordination of efforts to study, mitigate and minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster.
21. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly.
22. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation.
23. Multilingualism.
24. Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal.
25. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American Economic System.
26. University for Peace.
27. Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin.
28. Universal Congress on the Panama Canal.
29. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
30. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.
31. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference.
32. Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic.
33. Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States.
34. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization.
35. Elimination of coercive economic measures as a means of political and economic compulsion.
36. Question of Palestine.
37. The situation in the Middle East.
38. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies.
39. Oceans and the law of the sea:
(a) Law of the sea;
(b) Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks;
(c) Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing, unauthorized fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and fisheries by-catch and discards.
40. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe.
41. Assistance in mine clearance.
42. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity.
43. The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security.
44. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti.
45. The situation in Central America: procedures for the establishment of a firm and lasting peace and progress in fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and development.
46. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development.
47. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
48. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas).
49. Report of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991.
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. 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.
52. 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.
53. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against Kuwait.
54. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations.
55. Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte.
56. Launching of global negotiations on international economic cooperation for development.
57. The situation in Burundi.
58. Restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the economic, social and related fields.
59. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters.
60. Strengthening of the United Nations system.
61. Question of Cyprus.
62. Compliance with arms limitation and disarmament obligations.
63. Verification in all its aspects, including the role of the United Nations in the field of verification.
64. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
65. Reduction of military budgets:
(a) Reduction of military budgets;
(b) Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures.
66. The 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) Small arms;
(c) Transparency in armaments;
(d) Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas;
(e) Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament: report of the Preparatory Committee for the Fourth Special Session of the General Assembly Devoted to Disarmament;
(f) Relationship between disarmament and development;
(g) Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control;
(h) Measures to curb the illicit transfer and use of conventional arms;
(i) Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes;
(j) Regional disarmament;
(k) Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons;
(l) Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament measures;
(m) Nuclear disarmament;
(n) Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels;
(o) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction;
(p) Non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and of vehicles for their delivery in all its aspects
72. Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly:
(a) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific;
(b) Regional confidence-building measures;
(c) 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. Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace.
78. Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco).
79. African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty.
80. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction.
81. Maintenance of international security.
82. Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening of International Security.
83. Rationalization of the work and reform of the agenda of the First Committee.
84. Effects of atomic radiation.
85. International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space.
86. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
87. Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories.
88. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects.
89. Questions relating to information.
90. Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations.
91. 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.
92. 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.
93. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories.
94. The situation in the occupied territories of Croatia.
95. Macroeconomic policy questions:
(a) Financing of development, including net transfer of resources between developing and developed countries;
(b) Trade and development;
(c) Science and technology for development;
(d) External debt crisis and development.
96. Sectoral policy questions:
(a) Industrial development cooperation;
(b) Business and development;
(c) Food and sustainable agricultural development.
97. Sustainable development and international economic cooperation:
(a) Renewal of the dialogue on strengthening international economic cooperation for development through partnership;
(b) Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s;
(c) Population and development;
(d) International migration and development, including the convening of a United Nations conference on international migration and development;
(e) Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II);
(f) First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty;
(g) Women in development;
(h) Human resources development;
(i) Cultural development.
98. Environment and sustainable development:
(a) Implementation of decisions and recommendations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development;
(b) Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa;
(c) Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind;
(d) International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction;
(e) Convention on Biological Diversity;
(f) Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States;
(g) Special session for the purpose of an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21.
99. Operational activities for development:
(a) Operational activities for development of the United Nations system;
(b) Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries.
100. Training and research: United Nations Institute for Training and Research.
101. 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.
102. Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family.
103. Crime prevention and criminal justice.
104. International drug control.
105. Advancement of women.
106. Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women.
107. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions.
108. Promotion and protection of the rights of children.
109. Programme of activities of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People
110. Elimination of racism and racial discrimination.
111. Right of peoples to self-determination.
112. 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.
113. Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors:
(a) United Nations peacekeeping operations;
(b) United Nations Institute for Training and Research;
(c) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
114. Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations.
115. Programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997.
116. Proposed programme budget for the biennium 1998-1999.
117. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations.
118. Joint Inspection Unit.
119. Pattern of conferences.
120. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations.
121. United Nations common 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.
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.
140. Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force.
141. Financing of the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti.
142. 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.
143. Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services.
144. Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property.
145. United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law.
146. United Nations Decade of International Law:
(a) United Nations Decade of International Law;
(b) Action to be taken in 1999 dedicated to the 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.
147. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-ninth session.
148. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its thirtieth session.
149. Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country.
150. Establishment of an international criminal court.
151. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization.
152. Measures to eliminate international terrorism.
153. Human resources management.
154. Financing of the Military Observer Group of the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala.
155. Amendment to article 13 of the statute of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal.
156. Towards a culture of peace.
157. United Nations reform: measures and proposals.
158. Observer status for the Andean Community in the General Assembly.