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PROGRAMME OF WORK OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1. The following tentative programme of work and schedule of plenary meetings of the General Assembly covers the rest of October, November and December 1997:

Date and Agenda item

Wednesday, 22 October (a.m.)

1. Address by the President of the Republic of Mozambique

2. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations [7]

3. Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination [16 (b)]

4. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American Economic System [25]

5. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference [31]

6. Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of the Arab States [33]

7. Observer status for the Andean Community in the General Assembly [158]

Monday, 27 October (a.m. )

Report of the International Court of Justice [13]

Tuesday, 28 October (a.m. )

Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union [29]

Wednesday, 29 October (a.m. and p.m.)

Report of the Security Council [11]

Thursday, 30 October (a.m. and p.m.)

Election of eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council [15 (b)]

Friday, 31 October (a.m.)

1. Towards a culture of peace [156]

2. Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission: financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola [123 and 159]

3. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia [133]

Monday, 3 November (a.m.)

Election of eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council [15 (b)]

Tuesday, 4 November (a.m.)

1. 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]

2. University for Peace [26]

Wednesday, 5 November (a.m.)

Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba [30]

Wednesday, 5 November (p.m.)

Election of eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council [15 (b)]

Monday, 10 November (a.m.)

1. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) [48]

2. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization [10]

Wednesday, 12 November

1. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency [14] (a.m. and p.m.)

2. United Nations reform: measures and proposals [157]

Thursday, 20 November (a.m.)

1. Appointment of a member of the Joint Inspection Unit [17(j)]

2. Towards a culture of peace [156]

3. Universal Congress on the Panama Canal [28]

4. Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic [32]

5. Report of the Economic and Social Council [12]

6. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other appointments [17]:

a. Appointment of members of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions [17(a)]

b. Appointment of members of the Committee on Contributions[17(b)]

c. Appointment of a member of the Board of Auditors[17(c)]

d. Confirmation of the appointment of members of the Investments Committee[17(d)]

e. Appointment of members of the International Civil Service Commission[17(f)]

f. Appointmemt of members and alternate members of the United Nations Staff Pension Committee[17(g)]

7. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization [34]

Friday, 21 November (a.m.)

1. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies [38]

2. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization [34]

Monday, 24 November (a.m.)

1. Adoption of the agenda of the fify-second regular session of the General Assembly and allocation of items[8]

2. Election of nineteen members of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law [16(c)]

3. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for African Unity[42]

4. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance [20]

Tuesday, 25 November (a.m.)

1. Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal [24]

2. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe [40]

Wednesday, 26 November (a.m.)

1. Election of twenty-nine members of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme [16(a)]

2. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development [46]

3. Oceans and the law of the sea [39] (a.m. and p.m.)

a. Law of the sea [39(a)]

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 [39(b)]

c. Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing, unauthorized fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and fisheries by-catch and discards[39(c)]

Monday, 1 December (p.m.)

Question of Palestine [36]

Tuesday, 2 December (p.m.)

Question of Palestine[36]

Wednesday, 3 December (a.m. and p.m.)

1. Election of the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme [16(d)]

2. The situation in the Middle East [37]

Thursday, 4 December (a.m. and p.m.), Friday, 5 December (a.m. and p.m.)

Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters [59]

Monday, 8 December (a.m.)

1. 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 [50]

2.Elimination of coercive economic measures as a means of political and economic compulsion [35]

3. 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]

Tuesday, 9 December (a.m.)

Reports of the First Committee [62-83]

Wednesday, 10 December (p.m.)

1. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples[18]

2. Reports of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee)[84-94, 12,48]

Friday, 12 December (p.m.)

Reports of the Third Committee [102-112, 12]

Monday, 15 December (a.m. and p.m.)

The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina[47] (a.m.)

Reports of the Sixth Committee[144-152, 155](p.m.)

2. Inscription in the lists of speakers for the items listed in the present document is open. For inscription, please call 963-5063.

3. Representatives are reminded to submit draft resolutions sufficiently in advance so that Member States will have adequate time to examine them. Furthermore, should a draft resolution have programme budget implications, additional time will be required by the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and the Fifth Committee to review those implications before the draft resolution is acted upon by the General Assembly.