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Special session	Topic	Date of session	Requested or convened by
1st	Palestine	28 April-15 May 1947	United Kingdom
2nd	Palestine	16 April-14 May 1948	Security Council
3rd	Tunisia	21-25 August 1961	38 Member States
4th	Financial situation of the UN	14 May-27 June 1963	General Assembly
5th	South West Africa (Namibia)	21 April-13 June 1967	General Assembly
6th	Raw materials and development	9 April -2 May 1974	Algeria
7th	Development and international economic cooperation	1-16 September 1975	General Assembly
8th	Financing of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon	20-21 April 1978	General Assembly
9th	Namibia	24 April-3 May 1978	General Assembly
10th	Disarmament	23 May-1 July 1978	General Assembly
11th	New international economic order	25 August-15 September 1980	General Assembly
12th	Disarmament	7 June-10 July 1982	General Assembly
13th	Africa	27 May-1 June 1986	General Assembly
14th	Namibia	17-20 September 1986	General Assembly
15th	Disarmament	31 May-25 June 1988	General Assembly
16th	Apartheid	12-14 December 1989	General Assembly
17th	Drug abuse	20-23 February 1990	General Assembly
18th	International economic cooperation	23-27 April 1990	General Assembly
19th	Earth Summit+5	23-27 June 1997	General Assembly
20th	World drug problem	8-10 June 1998	General Assembly
21st	Population and development	30 June-2 July 1999	General Assembly
22nd	Small-Island Developing States	27-28 September 1999	General Assembly
23rd	Women	5-9 June 2000	General Assembly
24th	Social development	26-30 June 2000	General Assembly
25th	Children	2001	General Assembly
26th	Human settlements	June 2001	General Assembly

Prepared by the Department of Public Information - last update: 9 June 1999