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Fifty-second session
SECOND COMMITTEE

I have the honour to transmit to you herewith the decisions taken by the General Assembly at the 4th plenary meeting of its fifty-second session pertaining to the allocation of items to the Second Committee.

I wish to draw your attention to the recommendations on the organization of the session contained in section II of the report of the General Committee (A/52/250). Those recommendations were approved by the General Assembly, also at its 4th plenary meeting.

May I also draw your attention to paragraph 40 and the relevant part of paragraph 49 of the report (A/52/250) concerning the agenda of the Main Committees.

I earnestly request your cooperation in these matters.

(Signed) Hennadiy UDOVENKO

1. Report of the Economic and Social Council [chapters I, II, III, IV, V (sections A to C and F to J) and VII] (item 12).

[The General Assembly decided that 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]

2. Macroeconomic policy questions (item 95):

(a) Financing of development, including net transfer of resources between developing and developed countries;

[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 sub-item at the fifty-second session of the Assembly.]

(b) Trade and development;

(c) Science and technology for development;

(d) External debt crisis and development.

3. Sectoral policy questions (item 96):

(a) Industrial development cooperation;

(b) Business and development;

(c) Food and sustainable agricultural development.

4. Sustainable development and international economic cooperation (item 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 (item 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 (item 99):

[The General Assembly decided 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.]

(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 (item 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 (item 101).