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Allocation of agenda items to the Sixth Committee
 

Letter dated 15 September 1998 from the President of the General Assembly to the Chairman of the Sixth Committee
 
I have the honour to transmit to you herewith the decisions taken by the General Assembly at the 3rd plenary meeting of its fifty-third session pertaining to the allocation of items to the First 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/53/250). Those recommendations were approved by the General Assembly, also at its 3rd plenary meeting.

May I also draw your attention to paragraph 45 of section IV and to the relevant part of paragraph 59 of section V of the report concerning the agenda of the Main Committees.

I earnestly request your cooperation in these matters.
 
 

(Signed) Didier Opertti
 
 

Annex
 

Allocation of items to the Sixth Committee
 

1. Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the
    protection of victims of armed conflicts (item 146).
 
2. Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic
    and consular missions and representatives (item 147).
 
3. Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property (item 148).

4. United Nations Decade of International Law (item 149):
 
    (a) United Nations Decade of International Law;
 
    (b) Progress in the action dedicated to the 1999 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.
 
5. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its fiftieth session (item 150).
 
6. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its
    thirty-first session (item 151).
 
7. Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country (item 152).
 
8. Establishment of an international criminal court (item 153).
 
9. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening
    of the Role of the Organization (item 154).
 
10. Measures to eliminate international terrorism (item 155).
 
11. Review of the Statute of the Administrative Tribunal of the United Nations (item 156).