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23 DECEMBER 1999

I will leave it to Under-Secretary-General Joseph Connor to tell you the outcome of the Fifth Committee negotiations on the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2000-2001.

After the Committee concludes this stage of its work, the General Assembly is scheduled to meet at 6 p.m., to consider 18 Fifth Committee reports, including the $2.535 billion biennium budget. Additionally, the Assembly will take action on a Second Committee report (A/54/587/Add.6), postponed from yesterday, on preparations for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, to be held in Brussels in 2001. The Assembly will also take note of the report of the Economic and Social Council (A/54/3 and Add.1).

By the time it recesses the main part of its fifty-fourth regular session later today, the Assembly will have adopted over 250 resolutions on the agenda items before it.

In concluding remarks, Assembly President Theo-Ben Gurirab will highlight the major achievements of the session thus far. As soon as I get hold of the statement, I will announce it.

That’s all I have to say, except to wish everyone Happy Holidays.