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11 September 1997

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Fifty-second session
SECOND COMMITTEE

ORGANIZATION OF WORK OF THE SECOND COMMITTEE

Note by the Secretariat

Addendum

Status of preparation of documentation

The annex to the present note provides information on the status of documentation before the Second Committee, as at 9 September 1997. An updated note will be issued before the start of work of the Second Committee.

Annex

STATUS OF DOCUMENTATION FOR THE SECOND COMMITTEE AS AT 9 SEPTEMBER 1997

Document
symbol

Document title (mandate)

Submitting
department
or office

Actual or
(estimated)
date
of submission

Projected
date of
issue
Item 12

Report of the Economic and Social Council

A/52/3

Report of the Economic and Social Council

GAACS

(12 September)

A/52/175- E/1997/75

Report of the Secretary-General on the possibilities of strengthening the coordination of the organizations and bodies of the United Nations system in the field of energy (Council resolution 1996/64)

DESD

Issued

A/52/203-
E/1997/85

Report of the Secretary-General on new and innovative funds for globally agreed commitments and priorities (Council resolution 1996/48)

DESD

Issued

A/52/212

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund on the United Nations Population Award (Council decision 1982/112)

UNFPA

Issued

A/52/222

Letter dated 2 June 1997 from the Charge d'affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Maldives to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting the Declaration of the Ninth Summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation

Issued

Item 97

Macroeconomic policy questions

A/52/284

Letter dated 12 August 1997 from the Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting the texts of the communique and the Montego Bay Declaration issued at the conclusion of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM

Issued

Item 97 (a)

Financing of development, including net transfer of resources between developing and developed countries

Report of the Secretary-General (resolutions 50/93 and 51/166)

DESD

(15 September)

Item 97 (b)

Trade and development

A/52/15

Report of the Trade and Development Board on its fifteenth executive session

UNCTAD

A/52/15/Add.1

Report of the Trade and Development Board on its forty-fourth session

UNCTAD

Report of the Secretary-General on economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries (resolution 50/96)

DESD

(12 September)

A/52/329 Report of the Secretary-General on specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of land-locked developing countries (resolution 50/97)

UNCTAD

9 September

Item 97 (c)

Science and technology for development

A/52/320

Report of the Secretary-General (resolution 50/101)

UNCTAD

2 September

24 September

Item 97 (d)

External debt crisis and development

A/52/290

Report of the Secretary-General (resolution 51/164)

DESD

18 August

17 September

Item 98

Sectoral policy questions

A/55/139

Letter dated 7 May 1997 from the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting the results of the 97th Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

Issued

A/52/284

Letter dated 12 August 1997 from the Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting the texts of the communique and the Montego Bay Declaration issued at the conclusion of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM

Issued

Item 98 (a)

Industrial development cooperation

Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa (resolution 50/94)

ECA

Item 98 (b)

Business and development

Report of the Secretary-General on entrepreneurship and privatization for economic growth and sustainable development (resolution 48/180)

DESD

Item 98 (c)

Food and sustainable agricultural development

A/52/132-
E/1997/57

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Director-General of FAO on the outcome of the World Food Summit (resolutions 50/109 and 51/171)

WFP

Issued

Item 99

Sustainable development and international economic cooperation

A/52/92

Letter dated 14 March 1997 from the Permanent Representatives of Belarus and the Russian Federation to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting the text of a joint statement

Issued

A/52/112

Letter dated 14 March 1997 from the representatives of Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting the text of the Almaty Declaration

Issued

A/52/139

Letter dated 7 May 1997 from the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting the results of the 97th Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union

Issued

A/52/153-
S/1997/384

Letter dated 15 May 1997 from the Permanent Representatives of China and the Russian Federation to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting the text of the Russian-Chinese Joint Declaration on a Multipolar World and the Establishment of a New International Order

Issued

A/52/163

Letter dated 29 May 1997 from the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting the text of a message from the President of the Russian Federation on the occasion of Africa Day

Issued

A/52/217-
S/1997/507

Letter dated 26 June 1997 from the Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting the Thessaloniki Declaration on Good-Neighbourly Relations, Stability, Security and Cooperation in the Balkans

Issued

A/52/284

Letter dated 12 August 1997 from the Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting the texts of the communique and the Montego Bay Declaration issued at the conclusion of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM

Issued

A/52/318

Letter dated 29 August 1997 from the Permanent Representative of Kazakstan to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting a statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Issued

Item 99 (a)

Renewal of the dialogue on strengthening international economic cooperation for development through partnership

Report of the Secretary-General (resolution 51/174)

DESD

(12 September)

Item 99 (b)

Implementation of the Programme for Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s

A/52/279

Report of the Secretary-General (resolution 50/103)

UNCTAD

13 August

17 September
Item 99 (c)

Population and development

A/52/208

Report of the Secretary-General (resolution 51/176)

UNFPA

Issued

Item 99 (d)

International migration and development, including the convening of a United Nations conference on international migration and development

A/52/314

Report of the Secretary-General (resolutions 50/123 and 51/148)

DESD

29 August

22 September

Item 99 (e)

Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II)

A/52/8

Report of the Commission on Human Settlements on the work of its nineteenth session

UNCHS

Issued

A/52/8/Add.1

Addendum 1 to the above

UNCHS
A/52/181-
E/1997/77

Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Assembly resolution 51/177

UNCHS

Issued

Report of the Secretary-General containing an assessment of the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (resolution 51/177)

UNCHS

(late September)

A/52/136

Letter dated 7 May 1997 from the Permanent Representative of the United Arab Emirates to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

Issued

Item 99 (f)

First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty

A/52/315

Report of the Secretary-General on the observance of the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty (resolution 51/178)

DESD

20 August

17 September

Item 99 (g)

Women in development

Report of the Secretary-General on the effective mobilization and integration of women in development (resolutions 42/178 and 50/104)

DESD

(end September)

Item 99 (h)

Human resources development

Report of the Secretary-General (resolution 50/105)

DAM

Item 99 (i)

Cultural development

Report of the Secretary-General and the Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Assembly resolution 41/187 and Council decision 1996/206)

UNESCO

(late September)

Item 100

Environment and sustainable development

A/52/25

Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme

UNEP

15 September

A/52/112

Letter dated 14 March 1997 from the representatives of Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General

Issued

A/52/217-
S/1997/507

Letter dated 26 June 1997 from the Permanent Representative of Greece to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting the text of the Thessaloniki Declaration on Good-Neighbourly Relations, Stability, Security and Cooperation in the Balkans

Issued

A/52/284

Letter dated 12 August 1997 from the Permanent Representative of Jamaica to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting the texts of the communique and the Montego Bay Declaration issued at the conclusion of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM

Issued

A/52/318

Letter dated 29 August 1997 from the Permanent Representative of Kazakstan to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting a statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Issued

Item 100 (a)

Implementation of the decisions and recommendations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

A/52/3

Relevant sections of the report of the Economic and Social Council

See item 12

Item 100 (b)

Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa

Report of the Secretary-General (resolutions 50/114 and 51/180)

DESD

A/52/82

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the first part of the tenth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for the Elaboration of an International Convention (resolution 50/112)

GAACS

Issued

A/52/82/Add.1

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the second part of the tenth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (resolution 50/112)

GAACS

4 September

26 September

Item 100 (c)

Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind

Report of the Secretary-General on the review of arrangements for administrative support to the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (resolution 50/115)

DAM

(late September)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change on the results of the meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention (resolution 51/184)

DESD

(late September)

Item 100 (d)

International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

Report of the Secretary-General (resolutions 50/117 B and 51/185)

DHA

Item 100 (e)

Convention on Biological Diversity

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity on the results of the meeting of the Conference of Parties to the Convention (resolution 51/182)

UNEP

Item 100 (f)

Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States

A/52/319

Report of the Secretary-General (resolution 51/183)

DESD

4 September

18 September

Item 100 (g)

Special session for the purpose of an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21

A/52/280

Report of the Secretary-General (resolution 51/181)

DESD

Issued

A/52/113-
E/1997/18

Letter dated 19 March 1997 from the Permanent Representative of Bangladesh to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting documents from the Microcredit Summit

Issued

Item 101

Operational activities for development

A/52/39

Report of the High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries

UNDP

Issued

A/52/114-
E/1997/46

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the comments of the Administrative Committee on Coordination on the report of the Joint Inspection Unit entitled "Review of financial resources allocated by the United Nations system to activities of non-governmental organizations" (A/51/655-E/1996/105)

Issued

A/52/115-
E/1997/47

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the comments of the Administrative Committee on Coordination on the report of the Joint Inspection Unit entitled "Coordination of policy and programming frameworks for more effective development cooperation" (A/51/636-E/1997/104)

Issued

A/52/112

Letter dated 14 March 1997 from the representatives of Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting the text of the Almaty Declaration

Issued

A/52/318

Letter dated 29 August 1997 from the Permanent Representative of Kazakstan to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General transmitting a statement of the Minitry of Foreign Affairs

Issued

Item 101 (a)

Operational activities for development of the United Nations system

Report of the Secretary-General (Council resolution 1997/59)

DESD

(mid-September)

Item 101 (b)

Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries

Report of the Secretary-General on cooperation between the United Nations and the South African Development Community (resolution 50/118)

DPA

Report of the Secretary-General on the state of South-South cooperation (resolution 50/119)

UNCTAD

Item 102

Training and research: United Nations institute for Training and Research

Report of the Executive Director of the Institute (resolution 51/188)

UNITAR

Report of the Secretary-General (resolution 51/188)

DAM

Item 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

A/52/172-
E/1997/71 and Corr.1

Report of the Secretary-General (resolution 51/190)

ESCWA

Issued