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Distr. GENERAL A/52/250 18 September 1997 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH GENERAL ASSEMBLY Fifty-second session |
ORGANIZATION OF THE FIFTY-SECOND REGULAR SESSION OF THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY, ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA AND ALLOCATION OF ITEMS
First report of the General Committee
CONTENTS
1. At its first and second meetings, on 17 and 18 September 1997, the
General Committee considered a memorandum by the Secretary-General relating
to the organization of the fifty-second regular session and future sessions
of the General Assembly, the adoption of the agenda and the allocation
of items (A/BUR/52/1). A summary of the discussion will appear in the summary
records of the meetings (A/BUR/52/SR.1 and 2).
2. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General in paragraph 3 of his
memorandum (A/BUR/52/1), the General Committee draws the attention of the
General Assembly to the provisions reproduced in annexes V, VI, VII and
VIII to its rules of procedure.
3. The General Committee took note of General Assembly resolution 48/264
of 29 July 1994, entitled "Revitalization of the work of the General
Assembly", and to annex I thereto, entitled "Guidelines on the
rationalization of the agenda of the General Assembly". The Committee
also took note of annex I to General Assembly resolution 50/227 of 24 May
1996, entitled "Further measures for the restructuring and revitalization
of the United Nations in the economic, social and related fields".
The provisions of the resolutions are reflected in the present document
under the relevant headings.
4. The General Committee took note of the General Assembly decisions
relevant to its work that were brought to the Committee's attention by
the Secretary-General in paragraph 5 of his memorandum (A/BUR/52/1).
5. The General Committee took note (A/BUR/52/1, paras. 6 and 7) of the
measures undertaken by the Secretary-General in pursuance of the goal of
renewal and reform, in particular to recommendations 2, 3 and 7 of the
Group of High-level Intergovernmental Experts to Review the Efficiency
of the Administrative and Financial Functioning of the United Nations(1)
as reflected in his progress reports on the implementation of General Assembly
resolution 41/213 (A/42/234, A/43/286, A/44/222), as well as a supplementary
report submitted to the forty-fifth session of the Assembly (A/45/226).
The Committee also took note of Assembly resolution 46/232 of 2 March 1992
on the revitalization of the United Nations Secretariat, resolutions 46/235
of 13 April 1992, 48/162 of 20 December 1993 and 50/227 on the restructuring
and revitalization of the United Nations in the economic, social and related
fields and resolution 48/264 and annex I thereto on the revitalization
of the work of the General Assembly.
6. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/52/1, para. 8),
the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to paragraph
5 of the annex to resolution 45/45 (A/520/Rev.15 and Amend.1, annex VIII),
which reads as follows:
"5. The General Committee should consider, at the beginning of
each session of the General Assembly, recommending that certain Main Committees
should meet in sequential order, taking into account such matters as the
number of meetings required for the consideration of the questions with
which they are charged at that session, the organization of the work of
the whole session and the problem of participation of small delegations."
The Committee also draws the Assembly's attention to paragraph 23 of
annex I to resolution 50/227, which reads as follows:
"23. To the extent feasible, the discussions in the Second and
Third Committees should not commence until after the end of the general
debate in the plenary meetings of the General Assembly."
7. The General Committee took note of the fact that measures introduced
to reduce costs relating to overtime will be strictly enforced.
8. In accordance with the provisions of rule 2 of the rules of procedure,
the General Committee recommends to the General Assembly that the fifty-first
session should recess not later than Tuesday, 16 December 1997.
9. The General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to the
fact that the closing date of the fifty-second session will be subject
to the implementation of resolution 51/241 of 31 July 1997 on strengthening
of the United Nations system.
10. The Committee also recommends to the Assembly that all the Main
Committees should start their work as soon as possible and make every effort
to complete their work by Friday, 28 November 1997.
11. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/52/1, para. 11),
the General Committee recommends to the General Assembly that morning meetings
should start at 10 a.m. promptly for all plenary meetings and meetings
of the Main Committees during the fifty-second session. The Committee also
recommends to the Assembly that, as a cost-saving measure, every effort
should be made to ensure that plenary meetings and meetings of the Main
Committees adjourn by 6 p.m., and that no meetings be held on weekends.
The Committee also recommends to the Assembly that this cost-saving measure
should also apply, for the remainder of 1997, to meetings on the calendar
of conferences and meetings.
12. Also at the suggestion of the Secretary-General (ibid., para. 12),
the General Committee recommends that, in order to avoid the late start
of meetings, the General Assembly should waive the requirement of the presence
of at least one third of the members to declare a plenary meeting open
and permit the debate to proceed and one quarter of the members to declare
a meeting of a Main Committee open and permit the debate to proceed. This
recommendation is made on the understanding that such a waiver would not
imply any permanent change in the provisions of rules 67 and 108 of the
rules of procedure and that the requirement of the presence of a majority
of the members for any decision to be taken would be maintained.
13. In this connection, the General Committee also recommends to the
General Assembly that delegations should be reminded of the utmost importance
of punctuality in the interest of ensuring an effective and orderly organization
of work and achieving economies for the United Nations.
14. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/52/1, paras. 14
and 15), the General Committee recommends that:
(a) The general debate should begin on Monday, 22 September and end
on Friday, 10 October 1997;
(b) The list of speakers in the general debate should be closed on Wednesday,
24 September, at 6 p.m.
15. On the proposal of the Secretary-General (ibid., para. 16), the
General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to the decision
taken by the Assembly at previous sessions, namely, that the practice of
expressing congratulations inside the General Assembly Hall after a speech
has been delivered is prohibited. In this connection, the Committee recommends
to the Assembly that speakers in the general debate, after delivering their
statements, should leave the Assembly Hall through room GA-200 located
behind the podium before returning to their seats.
II.6.
Explanations of vote, right of reply, points of order and length of
statements
16. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/52/1, para. 17),
the General Committee draws the attention of the General Assembly to paragraphs
6, 7 and 8 of its decision 34/401 (A/520/Rev.15, annex VI), which read
as follows:
"6. Explanations of vote should be limited to ten minutes.
"7. When the same draft resolution is considered in a Main Committee
and in plenary meeting, a delegation should, as far as possible, explain
its vote only once, i.e., either in the Committee or in plenary meeting,
unless that delegation's vote in plenary meeting is different from its
vote in the Committee.
"8. Delegations should exercise their right of reply at the end
of the day whenever two meetings have been scheduled for that day and whenever
such meetings are devoted to the consideration of the same item."
17. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/52/1, para. 18),
the General Committee, in line with time limits for explanations of vote
and right of reply, recommends to the General Assembly that points of order
should be limited to five minutes.
18. Furthermore, in connection with the length of statements, with a
view to streamlining the procedures of the General Assembly and as a cost-saving
measure, the General Committee draws the attention of the Assembly, as
it did at recent sessions, to rules 72 and 114 of the rules of procedure
and paragraph 22 of annex VI thereto for appropriate action in plenary
meeting and the Main Committees.
19. As at past sessions (A/BUR/52/1, para. 20), verbatim records will
continue to be provided, during the fifty-second session, for the plenary
meetings of the General Assembly and meetings of the First Committee, and
summary records will be provided to the General Committee and the Main
Committees of the Assembly. In accordance with the recommendation of the
Special Committee on the Rationalization of the Procedures and Organization
of the General Assembly (A/520/Rev.15, annex V, para. 108 (b)), the General
Committee recommends that the Assembly should maintain for the fifty-second
session the practice whereby the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) may obtain, on specific request, transcriptions of the
debates of some of its meetings, or portions thereof. These transcriptions,
which would not be part of the official records of the Committee, would
be provided as the required services became available. Furthermore, the
General Committee draws the Assembly's attention to paragraphs 8 and 9
of its resolution 38/32 E of 25 November 1983, which read as follows:
"8. Decides that the practice of reproducing statements
in extenso as separate documents shall be discontinued for all its
subsidiary organs that are entitled to summary records;
"9. Decides further that any exceptions to this rule may
be made by the body concerned only if the statements are to serve as bases
for discussion and if, after hearing a statement of the relevant financial
implications, the body decides that one or more statements in extenso
may be included in the summary record, or reproduced as separate documents
or as annexes to authorized documents."
In this connection, the General Committee also recommends to the Assembly
that the practice not to reproduce in extenso statements made in
a Main Committee should be maintained for the fifty-second session.
20. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/52/1, para. 22),
the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to paragraph
17 of its decision 34/401 (A/520/Rev.15, annex VI), which reads as follows:
"17. To save time at the end of the session, the practice of making
concluding statements in the General Assembly and its Main Committees should
be dispensed with except for statements by the presiding officers."
21. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/52/1, para. 23),
the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to paragraph
32 of its decision 34/401, which reads as follows:
"32. Whenever possible, resolutions requesting the discussion of
a question at a subsequent session should not call for the inclusion of
a separate new item and such discussion should be held under the item under
which the resolution was adopted."
22. Furthermore, at the suggestion of the Secretary-General (ibid.,
para. 24), the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention
to recommendation 3 (f) of the Group of High-level Intergovernmental Experts,
which reads as follows:
"(f) Efforts should be made to reduce the number of resolutions
adopted by the General Assembly. Resolutions should request reports of
the Secretary-General only in cases where that would be indispensable for
facilitating the implementation of these resolutions or the continued examination
of the question."
23. In this connection, the General Committee draws the attention of
the General Assembly to paragraph 5 of its resolution 48/264, which reads
as follows:
"5. Encourages Member States to exercise restraint in making
proposals requesting new reports of the Secretary-General, bearing in mind
the desirability of reducing the number of such reports."
24. The General Committee also draws the attention of the General Assembly
to paragraph 24 of annex I to resolution 50/227, which reads as follows:
"24. For issues of a procedural nature, decisions, instead of resolutions,
should be used to the maximum extent possible. Resolutions should be shorter,
in particular as regards preambular parts. The bureaux, in reviewing the
respective agendas, could identify and recommend those individual items
or clusters of related items that could be effectively considered in omnibus
resolutions."
25. The General Committee also draws the attention of the General Assembly
to paragraphs 1 and 10 of the annex to resolution 45/45 (A/520/Rev.15/Amend.1,
annex VIII).
26. On the proposal of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/52/1, para. 28),
the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to paragraph
28 of its decision 34/401, which reads as follows:
"28. The General Assembly, including its Main Committees, should
merely take note of those reports of the Secretary-General or subsidiary
organs which do not require a decision by the Assembly and should neither
debate nor adopt resolutions on them, unless specifically requested to
do so by the Secretary-General or the organ concerned."
27. The General Committee also draws the attention of the General Assembly
to paragraph 6 of its resolution 48/264, which reads as follows:
"6. Emphasizes that reports requested of the Secretary-General
should be made available in all official languages in a timely manner in
accordance with the rules of procedure of the General Assembly and the
annexes thereto with a view to enabling delegations to consider the substance
of such reports more thoroughly in advance of meetings."
The Committee also draws the attention of the Assembly to paragraph
4 of resolution 50/206 C of 23 December 1995, in which the Assembly once
again requested the Secretary-General "to ensure that documentation
is available in accordance with the six-week rule for the distribution
of documents, simultaneously in each of the six official languages of the
United Nations".
28. The General Committee took note of the fact that, as announced earlier,
a target had been set for an early reduction in the documentation produced
by the Secretariat and that the volume of pre-session documentation for
the fifty-second session was projected at a level slightly below that of
previous comparable years.
29. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/52/1, paras. 31
and 32), who referred to rule 153 of the rules of procedure, the General
Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to paragraphs 12 and 13
of its decision 34/401, which read as follows:
"12. It is imperative that Main Committees should allow sufficient
time for the preparation of the estimate of expenditures by the Secretariat
and for its consideration by the Advisory Committee on Administrative and
Budgetary Questions and the Fifth Committee and that they should take this
requirement into account when they adopt their programme of work;
"13. Furthermore:
"(a) A mandatory deadline, not later than 1 December, should be
established for the submission to the Fifth Committee of all draft resolutions
with financial implications;
"(b) The Fifth Committee should, as a general practice, consider
accepting without debate the recommendations of the Advisory Committee
on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the financial implications
of draft resolutions up to a prescribed limit, namely, $25,000 on any one
item;
"(c) Firm deadlines should be set for the early submission of the
reports of subsidiary organs which require consideration by the Fifth Committee;
"(d) A minimum period of forty-eight hours should be allowed between
the submission and the voting of a proposal involving expenditure in order
to allow the Secretary-General to prepare and present the related statement
of administrative and financial implications."
The General Committee also draws the attention of the Assembly to paragraph
6 of its resolution 35/10 A of 3 November 1980, which reads as follows:
"6. Decides that all proposals affecting the schedule of
conferences and meetings made at sessions of the General Assembly shall
be reviewed by the Committee on Conferences when administrative implications
are being considered under the requirements of rule 153 of the rules of
procedure of the Assembly."
30. Also at the suggestion of the Secretary-General (ibid., para. 31),
the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to regulation
4.9 of the Regulations Governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects
of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation
(resolution 37/234, annex), which reads as follows:
"Regulation 4.9. No Council, Commission or other competent
body shall take a decision involving either a change in the programme budget
approved by the General Assembly or the possible requirement of expenditure
unless it has received and taken account of a report from the Secretary-General
on the programme budget implications of the proposal."
31. In connection with subparagraph 13 (d) of decision 34/401 quoted
above, the General Committee wishes to draw the attention of the General
Assembly to the observations of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/52/1, paras.
33 and 34) regarding the fact that, depending on the type and complexity
of proposals involving changes in the work programme and additional expenditures,
the preparation of a statement of programme budget implications by the
Secretary-General may take a few days. In addition, the Advisory Committee
on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and the Fifth Committee need
adequate time to review the programme budget implications of a draft resolution
before the latter can be acted on by the Assembly. The Secretary-General
thus considers it desirable that Member States submit proposals involving
statements of programme budget implications sufficiently in advance to
avoid the cancellation of meetings and the postponement of consideration
of items.
32. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/52/1, para. 35),
the General Committee recommends to the General Assembly that, allowing
for the necessary flexibility and with the exception of the anniversary
of the United Nations, the Assembly should adopt the following format for
commemorative meetings: statements by the President of the General Assembly
and the Secretary-General, statements by the chairmen of the five regional
groups and by the representative of the host country. The Committee also
recommends that consideration be given to limiting each statement to 15
minutes.
33. The General Committee further recommends, at the suggestion of the
Secretary-General (ibid., para. 36), that observances and commemorative
meetings should take place, as far as possible, immediately following the
general debate. The advantage of such a procedure is that it may facilitate
the participation of dignitaries attending the general debate. This procedure
would also allow advance planning of the work of the General Assembly.
34. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/52/1, para. 37),
the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to recommendation
6 of the Committee on Conferences, adopted by the Assembly in paragraph
(b) of its decision 34/405, which reads as follows:
"(b) The Committee, taking into account difficulties encountered
in ensuring adequate preparation of meetings, including timely distribution
of documentation, as well as the ability of Member States to participate
fully, recommends that the General Assembly should instruct the Main Committees
to review the number of special conferences of the United Nations already
proposed and scheduled in their respective fields of activity prior to
deciding upon the scheduling of new and additional special conferences,
thus bearing in mind the relevant portions of General Assembly resolution
33/55."
The General Committee also draws the Assembly's attention to recommendation
2(d) of the Group of High-level Intergovernmental Experts, which reads
as follows:
"Until 1978, a number of resolutions had requested that only one
major conference be scheduled annually. The decision of the General Assembly
that no more than five special conferences should take place in a given
year and that no more than one special conference should be convened at
the same time should be strictly implemented."
35. Furthermore, at the suggestion of the Secretary-General (ibid.,
para. 38), the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention
to the relevant provisions of recommendation 4 of the Group of High-level
Intergovernmental Experts which reads as follows:
"The existing principle that United Nations bodies should meet
at their respective established headquarters, as provided for in General
Assembly resolution 40/243 of 18 December 1985, should be strictly enforced.
Whenever the Assembly accepts an invitation from the Government of a Member
State to hold a conference or meeting away from established headquarters,
the additional cost should be borne in full by that Government. The methods
of budgeting these costs should be improved so as to ensure that all additional
costs are accounted for."
36. The General Committee, in the light of recommendations submitted
by the Committee on Conferences (A/52/340), recommends to the General Assembly,
on the strict understanding that meetings would have to be accommodated
within available facilities and services, that the following subsidiary
organs should be authorized to meet during the main part of the fifty-first
session:
(a) Committee for Programme and Coordination;
(b) Committee on Conferences;
(c) Committee on Relations with the Host Country;
(d) Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian
People;
(e) Working Group on the Financing of the United Nations Relief and
Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.
III. OBSERVATIONS ON THE ORGANIZATION OF FUTURE SESSIONS OF THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
37. The General Committee was informed that, since the General Assembly
decided, at its forty-sixth session, in 1991, that its regular sessions
should close on the Monday preceding the opening of the next session in
September of the following year, the Assembly has met frequently between
January and September. During its fiftieth session, the Assembly held 28
meetings between February and September 1996, which was more than a quarter
of the total of 100 plenary meetings that the Assembly had held from September
to December 1995. There has been a slight improvement in 1997: the Assembly
has held 17 plenary meetings since January. However, it should be noted
that that figure includes neither the meetings of the tenth emergency special
session (5 plenary meetings) nor those of the nineteenth special session
(11 plenary meetings). With the exception of the meetings of the nineteenth
special session, these meetings were not envisaged in the calendar of meetings
and therefore ad hoc arrangements were required to continue to provide
adequate secretariat services, at the expense of other requirements.
38. In this connection, at the suggestion of the Secretary-General,
the General Committee draws the attention of the General Assembly to resolution
51/241, which is to be implemented as of 1 January 1998, and especially
to section VI (Timing of the plenary meetings of the General Assembly)
of the annex to the resolution.
39. The General Committee considered the draft agenda of the fifty-second
session submitted by the Secretary-General in his memorandum (A/BUR/52/1).
All the items contained in the draft agenda formed part of the following
documents:
(a) Provisional agenda of the fifty-second session (A/52/150 and Corr.1);
(b) Supplementary list (A/52/200);
(c) Request for the inclusion of an additional item (A/52/232).
40. The General Committee took note of paragraphs 4 and 5 (a) and (c)
of annex I to resolution 48/264, which read as follows:
"4. There shall be periodic reviews of the agenda, taking into
account the views of concerned Member States, in order to ascertain whether
it is possible to delete any item on which no resolution or decision has
been adopted for a period of time.
"5. The Main Committees should be encouraged to continue with the
review of their respective agendas, taking into account, inter alia,
the following:
"(a) Agenda items concerning issues of closely related substance
could be merged within a single agenda title or be incorporated as sub-items
where this is possible without loss of focus on the items/sub-items concerned;
"...
"(c) Biennialization and triennialization of items on the agenda
of the Main Committees could be considered in accordance with the relevant
resolutions of the General Assembly."
In this connection, the attention of the General Committee was drawn
to paragraph 24 of the annex to resolution 51/241, which reaffirms the
provisions mentioned above. In addition, bearing in mind the extremely
heavy workload of the General Assembly and the need to make the most effective
use of scarce resources, the General Committee took note of the suggestion
by the Secretary-General to consider deferring to a later session items
for which decisions or action are not required at the main part of the
present session.
41. With regard to item 94 of the draft agenda (Question of the
Malagasy islands of Glorieuses, Juan de Nova, Europa and Bassas da India),
the General Committee decided to recommend that the consideration of the
item should be deferred to the fifty-third session and that the item should
be included in the provisional agenda of that session.
42. In connection with item 95 of the draft agenda (Question
of East Timor), the General Committee decided to recommend that the consideration
of the item should be deferred to the fifty-third session and that the
item should be included in the provisional agenda of that session.
43. With regard to item 157 of the draft agenda (Draft guiding
principles for international negotiations), the General Committee decided
to recommend its inclusion as a sub-item of item 148 of the draft agenda
(United Nations Decade of International Law).
44. In connection with item 158 of the draft agenda (Amendment
to article 13 of the statute of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal),
the General Committee decided to recommend its inclusion.
45. With regard to item 159 of the draft agenda (Need to review
General Assembly resolution 2758 (XXVI) of 25 October 1971 owing to the
fundamental change in the international situation and to the coexistence
of two Governments across the Taiwan Strait), the General Committee decided
not to recommend its inclusion.
46. In connection with item 160 of the draft agenda (Towards
a culture of peace), the General Committee decided to recommend its inclusion.
47. With regard to item 162 of the draft agenda (Observer status
for the Andean Community in the General Assembly), the General Committee
decided to recommend its inclusion.
48. Taking into account paragraphs 39 to 47 above, the General Committee
recommends to the General Assembly the adoption of the following agenda:(2)
1. Opening of the session by the Chairman of the delegation of Malaysia
(P.1).
2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation (P.2).
3. Credentials of representatives to the fifty-second session of the
General Assembly (P.3):
(a) Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee;
(b) Report of the Credentials Committee.
4. Election of the President of the General Assembly (P.4).
5. Election of the officers of the Main Committees (P.5).
6. Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly (P.6).
7. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph
2, of the Charter of the United Nations (P.7).
8. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work: reports of the General
Committee (P.8).
9. General debate (P.9).
10. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization
(P.10).
11. Report of the Security Council (P.11).
12. Report of the Economic and Social Council (P.12).
13. Report of the International Court of Justice (P.13).
14. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (P.14).
15. Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs (P.15):
(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
(P.16):
(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
(P.17):
(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 (P.18).
19. Admission of new Members to the United Nations (P.19).
20. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief
assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance
(P.20):
(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 (P.21).
22. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural
and Technical Cooperation (P.22).
23. Multilingualism (P.23).
24. Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic
ideal (P.24).
25. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American Economic
System (P.25).
26. University for Peace (P.26).
27. Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin
(P.27).
28. Universal Congress on the Panama Canal (P.28).
29. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary
Union (P.29).
30. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo
imposed by the United States of America against Cuba (P.30).
31. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the
Islamic Conference (P.31).
32. Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic (P.32).
33. Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States
(P.33).
34. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation
Organization (P.34).
35. Elimination of coercive economic measures as a means of political
and economic compulsion (P.35).
36. Question of Palestine (P.36).
37. The situation in the Middle East (P.37).
38. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments
to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies (P.38).
39. Oceans and the law of the sea (P.39):
(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 (P.40).
41. Assistance in mine clearance (P.41).
42. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African
Unity (P.42).
43. The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international
peace and security (P.43).
44. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti (P.44).
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 (P.45).
46. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
(P.46).
47. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (P.47).
48. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (P.48).
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 (P.49).
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 (P.50).
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 (P.51).
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 (P.52).
53. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against Kuwait
(P.53).
54. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations (P.54).
55. Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte (P.55).
56. Launching of global negotiations on international economic cooperation
for development (P.56).
57. The situation in Burundi (P.57).
58. Restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the economic,
social and related fields (P.58).
59. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership
of the Security Council and related matters (P.59).
60. Strengthening of the United Nations system (P.60).
61. Question of Cyprus (P.61).
62. Compliance with arms limitation and disarmament obligations (P.62).
63. Verification in all its aspects, including the role of the United
Nations in the field of verification (P.63).
64. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (P.64).
65. Reduction of military budgets (P.65):
(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 (P.66).
67. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the
Middle East (P.67).
68. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia (P.68).
69. Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon
States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons (P.69).
70. Prevention of an arms race in outer space (P.70).
71. General and complete disarmament (P.71):
(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 (P.72):
(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 (P.73):
(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 (P.74).
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 (P.75).
76. Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region
(P.76).
77. Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone
of Peace (P.77).
78. Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the Prohibition
of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)
(P.78).
79. African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (P.79).
80. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and
Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their
Destruction (P.80).
81. Maintenance of international security (P.81).
82. Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening
of International Security (P.82).
83. Rationalization of the work and reform of the agenda of the First
Committee (P.83).
84. Effects of atomic radiation (P.84).
85. International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space (P.85).
86. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in
the Near East (P.86).
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 (P.87).
88. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations
in all their aspects (P.88).
89. Questions relating to information (P.89).
90. Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under
Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations (P.90).
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
(P.91).
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 (P.92).
93. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants
of Non-Self-Governing Territories (P.93).
94. The situation in the occupied territories of Croatia (P.96).
95. Macroeconomic policy questions (P.97):
(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 (P.98):
(a) Industrial development cooperation;
(b) Business and development;
(c) Food and sustainable agricultural development.
97. Sustainable development and international economic cooperation (P.99):
(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 (P.100):
(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 (P.101):
(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 (P.102).
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 (P.103).
102. Social development, including questions relating to the world social
situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family (P.104).
103. Crime prevention and criminal justice (P.105).
104. International drug control (P.106).
105. Advancement of women (P.107).
106. Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on
Women (P.108).
107. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions
relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian
questions (P.109).
108. Promotion and protection of the rights of children (P.110).
109. Programme of activities of the International Decade of the World's
Indigenous People (P.111).
110. Elimination of racism and racial discrimination (P.112).
111. Right of peoples to self-determination (P.113).
112. Human rights questions (P.114):
(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 (P.115):
(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 (P.116).
115. Programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997 (P.117).
116. Proposed programme budget for the biennium 1998-1999 (P.118).
117. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations (P.119).
118. Joint Inspection Unit (P.120).
119. Pattern of conferences (P.121).
120. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the
United Nations (P.122).
121. United Nations common system (P.123).
122. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle
East (P.124):
(a) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force;
(b) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
123. Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission (P.125).
124. Financing of the activities arising from Security Council resolution
687 (1991) (P.126):
(a) United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission;
(b) Other activities.
125. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western
Sahara (P.127).
126. Financing and liquidation of the United Nations Transitional Authority
in Cambodia (P.128).
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 (P.129).
128. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II (P.130).
129. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique (P.131).
130. Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (P.132).
131. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (P.133).
132. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Haiti (P.134).
133. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (P.135).
134. Financing of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (P.136).
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 (P.137).
136. Financing of the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan
(P.138).
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 (P.139).
138. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina
(P.140).
139. Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration for
Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (P.141).
140. Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (P.142).
141. Financing of the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti (P.143).
142. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United
Nations peacekeeping operations (P.144):
(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 (P.145).
144. Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property
(P.146).
145. United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study,
Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law (P.147).
146. United Nations Decade of International Law (P.148):
(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.(3)
147. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-ninth
session (P.149).
148. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade
Law on the work of its thirtieth session (P.150).
149. Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country (P.151).
150. Establishment of an international criminal court (P.152).
151. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations
and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization (P.153).
152. Measures to eliminate international terrorism (P.154).
153. Human resources management (P.155).
154. Financing of the Military Observer Group of the United Nations
Verification Mission in Guatemala (P.156).
155. Amendment to article 13 of the statute of the United Nations Administrative
Tribunal (P.158).(4)
156. Towards a culture of peace (S.1).(5)
157. United Nations reform: measures and proposals (S.2).
158. Observer status for the Andean Community in the General Assembly
(A.1).(6)
V. ALLOCATION OF ITEMS
49. At the suggestion of the Secretary-General (A/BUR/52/1, para. 46),
the General Committee draws the General Assembly's attention to paragraph
4 of its decision 34/401 (A/520/Rev.15, annex VI), which reads as follows:
"4. Substantive items should normally be discussed initially in
a Main Committee and, therefore, items previously allocated to plenary
meetings should henceforth be referred to a Main Committee unless there
are compelling circumstances requiring their continued consideration in
plenary meeting."
The General Committee also draws the attention of the Assembly to paragraph
3 of annex I to resolution 48/264 and to the relevant paragraphs of resolutions
39/88 B and 45/45 (A/520/Rev.15 and Amend.1, annexes VII and VIII). Paragraph
5 of the annex to resolution 39/88 B reads as follows:
"5. The Chairmen of the Main Committees should take the initiative,
in the light of past experience, to propose the grouping of similar or
related items and the holding of a single general debate on them."
Paragraph 6 of the annex to resolution 45/45 reads as follows:
"6. In making recommendations as to how agenda items should be
allocated to the Main Committees and the plenary of the General Assembly,
the General Committee should ensure the best use of the expertise of the
Committees."
In this connection, the General Committee also draws the General Assembly's
attention to paragraphs 2 and 5 (b) and (d) of annex I to resolution 48/264,
which read as follows:
"2. Agenda items which are of a nature that relates to more than
one Main Committee or which do not come within the purview of any Main
Committee should be considered by the General Assembly in plenary meeting,
taking into account the recommendations of the General Committee.
"...
"5. The Main Committees should be encouraged to continue with the
review of their respective agendas, taking into account, inter alia,
the following:
"...
"(b) Items that cover related matters or issues could be considered
in agreed clusters;
"...
"(d) The existing broad division of work among the Main Committees
should be maintained."
50. Taking into account the recommendations in section IV above regarding
the inclusion of items in the agenda, the General Committee approved the
allocation of items contained in paragraph 56 of the Secretary-General's
memorandum (A/BUR/52/1) with the following modifications:
(a) Plenary meetings
(i) Item 10 (Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the
Organization)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General Assembly that
it hear a brief presentation by the Secretary-General on his annual report
(A/52/1) on Monday, 22 September, as the first item in the morning prior
to the opening of the general debate.
(ii) Item 18 (Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting
of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples)
The General Committee decided to recommend that the General Assembly should
refer to the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee)
chapters of the report of the Special Committee (A/52/23) relating to specific
Territories so that the Assembly might deal in plenary meeting with the
question of the implementation of the Declaration as a whole.
(iii) Item 48 (Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas))
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General Assembly that
the item should be considered directly in plenary meeting, on the understanding
that bodies and individuals having an interest in the question would be
heard in the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee)
in conjunction with the consideration of the item in plenary meeting.
(iv) Item 61 (Question of Cyprus)
The General Committee decided to recommend that the General Assembly allocate
the item at an appropriate time during the session.
(v) Item 156 (Towards a culture of peace)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General Assembly that
the item should be considered directly in plenary meeting.
(vi) Item 158 (Observer status for the Andean Community in the
General Assembly)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General Assembly that
the item should be considered directly in plenary meeting.
(b) First Committee
Item 71 (General and complete disarmament)
The General Committee decided to recommend that the relevant paragraphs
of the annual report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (A/52/285),
which is to be considered directly in plenary meeting under item 14, should
be drawn to the attention of the First Committee in connection with its
consideration of item 71.
(c) Third Committee
Item 105 (Advancement of women)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General Assembly that
the report of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
on the operations, management and budget of the United Nations Development
Fund for Women should be referred to the Second Committee for consideration
under item 99 (Operational activities for development).
(d) Fifth Committee
Item 118 (Joint Inspection Unit)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General Assembly that
the item should be allocated to the Fifth Committee, on the understanding
that the reports of the Joint Inspection Unit dealing with subject matters
assigned to other Main Committees would be referred also to those Committees.
(e) Sixth Committee
(i) Item 146 (c) (Draft guiding principles for international
negotiations)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General Assembly that
the item should be allocated to the Sixth Committee as a sub-item of item
146 (United Nations Decade of International Law)
(ii) Item 155 (Amendment to article 13 of the statute of the
United Nations Administrative Tribunal)
The General Committee decided to recommend to the General Assembly that
the item should be allocated to the Sixth Committee.
51. Taking into account paragraphs 49 and 50 above, the General Committee
recommends to the General Assembly the adoption of the following allocation
of items:(7)
V.1 Plenary meetings
1. Opening of the session by the Chairman of the delegation of Malaysia
(D.1).
2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation (D.2).
3. Credentials of representatives to the fifty-second session of the
General Assembly (D.3):
(a) Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee;
(b) Report of the Credentials Committee.
4. Election of the President of the General Assembly (D.4).
5. Election of the officers of the Main Committees (D.5).
6. Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly (D.6).
7. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph
2, of the Charter of the United Nations (D.7).
8. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work: reports of the General
Committee (D.8).
9. General debate (D.9).
10. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization
(D.10).(8)
11. Report of the Security Council (D.11).
12. Report of the Economic and Social Council [chapters I, II, III,
IV, V (sections A, B, D and H), VI and VII] (D.12).(9)
13. Report of the International Court of Justice (D.13).
14. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (D.14).(10)
15. Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs (D.15):
(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
(D.16):
(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
(D.17):(11)
(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 (D.18).(12)
19. Admission of new Members to the United Nations (D.19).
20. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief
assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance
(D.20):
(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 (D.21).
22. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural
and Technical Cooperation (D.22).
23. Multilingualism (D.23).
24. Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic
ideal (D.24).
25. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American Economic
System (D.25).
26. University for Peace (D.26).
27. Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin
(D.27).
28. Universal Congress on the Panama Canal (D.28).
29. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary
Union (D.29).
30. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo
imposed by the United States of America against Cuba (D.30).
31. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the
Islamic Conference (D.31).
32. Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic (D.32).
33. Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States
(D.33).
34. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation
Organization (D.34).
35. Elimination of coercive economic measures as a means of political
and economic compulsion (D.35).
36. Question of Palestine (D.36).
37. The situation in the Middle East (D.37).
38. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments
to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies (D.38).
39. Oceans and the law of the sea (D.39):
(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 (D.40).
41. Assistance in mine clearance (D.41).
42. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African
Unity (D.42).
43. The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international
peace and security (D.43).
44. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti (D.44).
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 (D.45).
46. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development
(D.46).
47. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (D.47).
48. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (D.48).(13)
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 (D.49).
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 (D.50).
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 (D.51).
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 (D.52).
53. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against Kuwait
(D.53).
54. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations (D.54).
55. Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte (D.55).
56. Launching of global negotiations on international economic cooperation
for development (D.56).
57. The situation in Burundi (D.57).
58. Restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the economic,
social and related fields (D.58).
59. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership
of the Security Council and related matters (D.59).
60. Strengthening of the United Nations system (D.60).
61. Towards a culture of peace (D.156).(14)
62. United Nations reform: measures and proposals (D.157).
63. Observer status for the Andean Community in the General Assembly
(D.158)(15)
1. Compliance with arms limitation and disarmament obligations (D.62).
2. Verification in all its aspects, including the role of the United
Nations in the field of verification (D.63).
3. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (D.64).
4. Reduction of military budgets (D.65):
(a) Reduction of military budgets;
(b) Objective information on military matters, including transparency
of military expenditures.
5. The role of science and technology in the context of international
security and disarmament (D.66).
6. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the
Middle East (D.67).
7. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia (D.68).
8. Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon
States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons (D.69).
9. Prevention of an arms race in outer space (D.70).
10. General and complete disarmament (D.71)(16)
(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.
11. Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth
Special Session of the General Assembly (D.72):
(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.
12. Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions
adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session (D.73):
(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.
13. The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East (D.74).
14. 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 (D.75).
15. Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region
(D.76).
16. Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone
of Peace (D.77).
17. Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the Prohibition
of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)
(D.78).
18. African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty (D.79).
19. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and
Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their
Destruction (D.80).
20. Maintenance of international security (D.81).
21. Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening
of International Security (D.82).
22. Rationalization of the work and reform of the agenda of the First
Committee (D.83).
V.3
Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee)
1. Effects of atomic radiation (D.84).
2. International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space (D.85).
3. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in
the Near East (D.86).
4. Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices
Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of
the Occupied Territories (D.87).
5. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations
in all their aspects (D.88).
6. Questions relating to information (D.89).
7. Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under
Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations (D.90).
8. 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 (D.91).
9. 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 (D.92).
10. Report of the Economic and Social Council [chapter V (section E)]
(D.12).
11. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants
of Non-Self-Governing Territories (D.93).
12. The situation in the occupied territories of Croatia (D.96).
13. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence
to Colonial Countries and Peoples (D.18).(17)
14. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (D.48).(18)
1. Report of the Economic and Social Council [chapters I, II, III, IV,
V (sections A to C and F to J) and VII] (D.12).(19)
2. Macroeconomic policy questions (D.95):
(a) Financing of development, including net transfer of resources between
developing and developed countries;(20)
(b) Trade and development;
(c) Science and technology for development;
(d) External debt crisis and development.
3. Sectoral policy questions (D.96):
(a) Industrial development cooperation;
(b) Business and development;
(c) Food and sustainable agricultural development.
4. Sustainable development and international economic cooperation (D.97):
(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.
5. Environment and sustainable development (D.98):
(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.
6. Operational activities for development (D.99):(21)
(a) Operational activities for development of the United Nations system;
(b) Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries.
7. Training and research: United Nations Institute for Training and
Research (D.100).
8. 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 (D.101).
1. Report of the Economic and Social Council [chapters I, IV, V (sections
A to C and H) and VII] (D.12).(22)
2. Social development, including questions relating to the world social
situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family (D.102).
3. Crime prevention and criminal justice (D.103).
4. International drug control (D.104).
5. Advancement of women (D.105).(23)
6. Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women
(D.106).
7. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions
relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian
questions (D.107).
8. Promotion and protection of the rights of children (D.108).
9. Programme of activities of the International Decade of the World's
Indigenous People (D.109).
10. Elimination of racism and racial discrimination (D.110).
11. Right of peoples to self-determination (D.111).
12. Human rights questions (D.112):
(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.
1. Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of
the Board of Auditors (D.113):
(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.
2. Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning
of the United Nations (D.114).
3. Programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997 (D.115).
4. Proposed programme budget for the biennium 1998-1999 (D.116).
5. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations (D.117).
6. Joint Inspection Unit (D.118).(24)
7. Pattern of conferences (D.119).
8. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the
United Nations (D.120).
9. United Nations common system (D.121).
10. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle
East (D.122):
(a) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force;
(b) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
11. Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission (D.123).
12. Financing of the activities arising from Security Council resolution
687 (1991) (D.124):
(a) United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission;
(b) Other activities.
13. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western
Sahara (D.125).
14. Financing and liquidation of the United Nations Transitional Authority
in Cambodia (D.126).
15. 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 (D.127).
16. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II (D.128).
17. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique (D.129).
18. Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (D.130).
19. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (D.131).
20. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Haiti (D.132).
21. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (D.133).
22. Financing of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (D.134).
23. 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 (D.135).
24. Financing of the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan
(D.136).
25. 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 (D.137).
26. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina
(D.138).
27. Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration for
Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (D.139).
28. Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (D.140).
29. Financing of the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti (D.141).
30. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United
Nations peacekeeping operations (D.142):
(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.
31. Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Office
of Internal Oversight Services (D.143).
32. Human resources management (D.153).
33. Financing of the Military Observer Group of the United Nations Verification
Mission in Guatemala (D.154).
34. Report of the Economic and Social Council [chapters I, V (section
B) and VII] (D.12).(25)
35. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other appointments
(D.17):(26)
(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.
1. Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property
(D.144).
2. United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination
and Wider Appreciation of International Law (D.145).
3. United Nations Decade of International Law (D.146):
(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.(27)
4. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-ninth
session (D.147).
5. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
on the work of its thirtieth session (D.148).
6. Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country (D.149).
7. Establishment of an international criminal court (D.150).
8. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations
and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization (D.151).
9. Measures to eliminate international terrorism (D.152).
10. Amendment to article 13 of the statute of the United Nations Administrative
Tribunal (D.155).(28)
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1. Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-first Session, Supplement No. 49 (A/41/49).
2. Abbreviations used in the present document:
(P. ): item on the provisional agenda (A/52/150 and Corr.1);
(S. ): item on the supplementary list (A/52/200);
(A. ): additional item (A/52/232).
7. The numbering in parentheses used in the allocation of items (D. ) follows the draft agenda in section IV (para. 48).
9. The chapters of the report listed below would
be referred also to the Second, Third and Fifth Committees, as follows:
(a) Chapters I, V (section B) and VII ............. Second, Third and Fifth
Committees
(b) Chapters II and III ........................... Second Committee
(c) Chapters IV and V (sections A and H) .......... Second and Third
Committees
11. For sub-items (a) to (g), see "Fifth Committee", item 35.
19. The chapters of the report listed below would
be referred also to plenary meetings and to the Third and Fifth Committees,
as follows:
(a) Chapters I, V (section B) and VII .... Plenary meetings and Third and
Fifth Committees
(b) Chapters II and III .................. Plenary meetings
(c) Chapters IV and V (sections A and H) . Plenary meetings and Third
Committee
(d) Chapter V (section C) ................ Third Committee
20. In its resolution 50/227, the General Assembly decided that the question of the International Conference on the Financing of Development would be considered under this item at the fifty-second session of the Assembly.
22. The chapters of the report listed below would
be referred also to plenary meetings and to the Second and Fifth Committees,
as follows:
(a) Chapters I, V (section B) and VII ........ Plenary meetings and Second
and Fifth Committees
(b) Chapters IV and V (sections A and H) ..... Plenary meetings and Second
Committee
(c) Chapter V (section C) ................... Second Committee
25. Chapters I, V (section B) and VII of the report would be referred also to plenary meetings and to the Second and Third Committees.
26. For sub-items (h) to (j), see "Plenary meetings", item 17.
