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United Nations A/52/100
General Assembly
Fifty-second session 		15 July 1997

Annotated preliminary list of items
to be included in the provisional agenda
of the fifty-second regular session of the
General Assembly*

Contents

I.    Introduction

II.    Annotated list

    Item numbers 1 - 10

  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(1)

    Item numbers 11 - 20

  11. Report of the Security Council
  12. Report of the Economic and Social Council1
  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 Coordination1
    (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(2)
    (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

    Item numbers 21 - 30

  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

    Item numbers 31 - 40

  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(3)
  37. The situation in the Middle East3
  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

    Item numbers 41 - 50

  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 security1
  44. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti1
  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 development2
  46. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
  47. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina1
  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

    Item numbers 51 - 60

  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(4)
  58. Restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the economic, social and related fields4
  59. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters1
  60. Strengthening of the United Nations system1

    Item numbers 61 - 70

  61. Question of Cyprus4
  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

    Item numbers 71 - 80

  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

    Item numbers 81 - 90

  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

    Item numbers 91 - 100

  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. Question of the Malagasy islands of Glorieuses, Juan de Nova, Europa and Bassas da India
  95. Question of East Timor
  96. The situation in the occupied territories of Croatia
  97. 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
  98. Sectoral policy questions:
    (a)    Industrial development cooperation
    (b)    Business and development
    (c)    Food and sustainable agricultural development
  99. 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
  100. 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

    Item numbers 101 - 110

  101. Operational activities for development:
    (a)    Operational activities for development of the United Nations system
    (b)    Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries
  102. Training and research: United Nations Institute for Training and Research
  103. 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
  104. Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family
  105. Crime prevention and criminal justice
  106. International drug control
  107. Advancement of women
  108. Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women
  109. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions
  110. Promotion and protection of the rights of children

    Item numbers 111 - 120

  111. Programme of activities of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People
  112. Elimination of racism and racial discrimination
  113. Right of peoples to self-determination
  114. 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 Action1
    (e)    Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  115. Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors:(5)
    (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
  116. Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations(6)
  117. Programme budget for the biennium 1996-19976
  118. Proposed programme budget for the biennium 1998-1999
  119. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations4
  120. Joint Inspection Unit

    Item numbers 121 - 130

  121. Pattern of conferences1
  122. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations5
  123. United Nations common system1
  124. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle East:6
    (a)    United Nations Disengagement Observer Force
    (b)    United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
  125. Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission1
  126. Financing of the activities arising from Security Council resolution 687 (1991):
    (a)    United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission6
    (b)    Other activities
  127. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara6
  128. Financing and liquidation of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia4
  129. 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 headquarters6
  130. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II4

    Item numbers 131 - 140

  131. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique4
  132. Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus6
  133. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia6
  134. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Haiti6
  135. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia6
  136. Financing of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda6
  137. 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 19916
  138. Financing of the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan6
  139. 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 19946
  140. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina6

    Item numbers 141 - 150

  141. Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium6
  142. Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force6
  143. Financing of the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti6
  144. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations:
    (a)    Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations(7)
    (b)    Relocation of Ukraine to the group of Member States set out in paragraph 3 (c) of General Assembly resolution 43/232
  145. Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services1
  146. Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property
  147. United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Disseminationand Wider Appreciation of International Law
  148. 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
  149. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-ninth session
  150. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its thirtieth session

    Item numbers 151- 156

  151. Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country
  152. Establishment of an international criminal court
  153. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization
  154. Measures to eliminate international terrorism
  155. Human resources management6
  156. Financing of the Military Observer Group of the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala5

Annexes

This presentation of the Annotated Agenda does not contain the following Annexes:
  1. Presidents of the General Assembly
  2. Officers of the Main Committees
  3. Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly
  4. Non-permanent members of the Security Council
  5. Members of the Economic and Social Council
  6. States Members of the United Nations
  7. Composition of organs

1. This item remains also on the agenda of the fifty-first session (decision 51/462 of 18 December 1996).

2. This item remains also on the agenda of the fifty-first session (see A/51/PV.97).

3. This item remains also on the agenda of the fifty-first session (see A/51/PV.93).

4. This item, which has not been considered by the General Assembly at its fifty-first session, remains on the agenda of that session (decision 51/462 of 18 December 1996). Its inclusion in the provisional agenda of the fifty-second session is subject to any action that the Assembly may take on it at its fifty-first session.

5. This item remains also on the agenda of the fifty-first session (see A/51/PV.95).

6. This item remains also on the agenda of the fifty-first session (see A/51/PV.101).

7. This item remains also on the agenda of the fifty-first session (see A/51/PV.102).

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1-10 11-20 21-30 31-40 41-50 51-60
61-70 71-80 81-90 91-100 101-110 111-120
121-130 131-140 141-150 151-156    

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