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ITEMS
INCLUDED IN THE PROVISIONAL AGENDA ( *
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OF THE FIFTY-SIXTH REGULAR SESSION
OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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[50-100]
[100-150]
[150-185]
1.
Opening of the session by the Chairman of the delegation of Finland
2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation
3. Credentials of representatives to the fifty-sixth session of
the General Assembly:
(a) Appointment of the members
of the Credentials Committee
(b) Report of the Credentials Committee
4. Election of the President of the General Assembly
5. Election of the officers of the Main Committees
6. Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly
7. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph
2, of the Charter of the United Nations
8. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work: reports of
the General Committee
9. General debate
10. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization
11. Report of the Security Council
12. Report of the Economic and Social Council
13. Report of the International Court of Justice
14. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency
15. Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs:
(a) Election of five non-permanent members
of the Security Council
(b) Election of eighteen members of the
Economic and Social Council
(c) Election of a member of the International
Court of Justice
16. Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other
elections:
(a) Election of the members of the International
Law Commission
(b) Election of twenty-nine members of
the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme
(c) Election of seven members of the
Committee for Programme and Coordination
(d) Election of the Executive Director
of the United Nations Environment Programme
17. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other
appointments:
(a) Appointment of members of the Advisory
Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions
(b) Appointment of members of the Committee
on Contributions
(c) Appointment of a member of
the Board of Auditors
(d) Confirmation of the appointment
of members of the Investments Committee
(e) Appointment of members of the
United Nations Administrative Tribunal
(f) Appointment of members of the
International Civil Service Commission
(g) Appointment of members of the
Joint Inspection Unit
(h) Appointment of members of the
Committee on Conferences
(i) Approval of the appointment
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
18. Implementation
of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial
Countries and Peoples
19. Admission
of new Members to the United Nations
20. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster
relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic
assistance:
(a) Strengthening of the coordination
of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations
(b) Special economic assistance to individual
countries or regions
(c) Strengthening of international cooperation
and coordination of efforts to study, mitigate and minimize the
consequences of the Chernobyl disaster
(d) Participation of volunteers, "White
Helmets", in the activities of the United Nations in the field
of humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and technical cooperation
for
development
(e) Assistance to the Palestinian people
(f) Emergency international assistance
for peace, normalcy and reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan
21. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American
Economic System
22. Cooperation between the United Nations and the International
Organization of la Francophonie
23. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of
Europe
24. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization
of the Islamic Conference
25. Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab
States
26. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
27. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Community
of Central African States
28. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation
Organization
29. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in Europe
30. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization
of African Unity
31. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Preparatory
Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization
32. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
33. Final review and appraisal of the implementation of the United
Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s
34. Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the
Olympic ideal
35. Review of the problem of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome in all its aspects
36. United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations
37. Follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children
38. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social
Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General
Assembly
39. Culture of peace
40. Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit
41. Oceans and the law of the sea:
(a) Oceans and the law of the sea
(b) Agreement for the Implementation
of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law
of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the
Conservation
and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory
Fish Stocks
42. University for Peace
43. Multilingualism
44. Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries
of origin
45. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial
embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba
46. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments
to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies
47. Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic
48. The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict
49. Assistance in mine action
50. Towards global partnerships
51. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
52. Question of Palestine
53. The situation in the Middle East
54. The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international
peace and security
55. The situation in Central America: procedures for the establishment
of a firm and lasting peace and progress in fashioning a region
of peace, freedom, democracy and development
56. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
57. The situation in East Timor during its transition to independence
58. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti
59. Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and
sustainable development in Africa
60. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the
membership of the Security Council and related matters
61. Report of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of
Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International
Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia
since 1991
62. Report of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution
of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations
of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of
Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other
Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States
between 1 January and 31 December 1994
63. Declaration of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government
of the Organization of African Unity on the aerial and naval
military attack against the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
by the present United States Administration in April 1986
64. Armed Israeli aggression against the Iraqi nuclear installations
and its grave consequences for the established international system
concerning the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the non-proliferation
of nuclear weapons and international peace and security
65. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against
Kuwait
66. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations
67. Launching of global negotiations on international economic
cooperation for development
68. Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte
69. United Nations reform: measures and proposals
70. Strengthening of the United Nations system
71. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly
72. Restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in
the economic, social and related fields
73. Question of Cyprus
74. Armed aggression against the Democratic Republic of the Congo
75. Reduction of military budgets:
(a) Reduction of military budgets
(b) Objective information on military
matters, including transparency of military expenditures
76. Verification in all its aspects, including the role of the
United Nations in the field of verification
77. Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a
Zone of Peace
78. African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty
79. Maintenance of international security good-neighbourliness,
stability and development in South-Eastern Europe
80. Developments in the field of information and telecommunications
in the context of international security
81. The role of science and technology in the context of international
security and disarmament
82. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region
of the Middle East
83. Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure
non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of
nuclear weapons
84. Prevention of an arms race in outer space
85. General and complete disarmament:
(a) Notification of nuclear tests
(b) Further measures in the field of
disarmament for the prevention of an arms race on the seabed and
the ocean floor and in the subsoil thereof
(c) Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive
wastes
(d) Missiles
(e) Preservation of and compliance with
the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems
(f) Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world:
the need for a new agenda
(g) Assistance to States for curbing
the illicit traffic in small arms and collecting them
(h) Consolidation of peace through practical
disarmament measures
(i) Implementation of the Convention on the
Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use
of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction
(j) Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere
and adjacent areas
(k) Observance of environmental norms
in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament
and arms control
(l) Relationship between disarmament
and development
(m) Convening of the fourth special session
of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament
(n) Reducing nuclear danger
(o) Regional disarmament
(p) Conventional arms control at the regional
and subregional levels
(q) Illicit traffic in small arms and light
weapons
(r) Nuclear disarmament
(s) Transparency in armaments
(t) Implementation of the Convention on the
Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer
of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction
(u) Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free
zone in Central Asia
(v) Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the
International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or
Use of Nuclear Weapons
(w) Small arms
86. Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the
Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly:
(a) Regional confidence-building measures:
activities of the United Nation Standing Advisory Committee on
Security Questions in Central Africa
(b) United Nations Regional Centre for
Peace and Disarmament in Africa
(c) United Nations Regional Centre for
Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(d) United Nations regional centres for
peace and disarmament
(e) Convention on the Prohibition of
the Use of Nuclear Weapons
(f) United Nations Regional Centre for
Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific
87. Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions
adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session:
(a) Advisory Board on Disarmament
Matters
( b) United Nations Institute for
Disarmament Research
(c) Report of the Conference on
Disarmament
(d) Report of the Disarmament Commission
88. The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East
89. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain
Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious
or to Have Indiscriminate Effects
90. Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean
region
91. Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for
the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the
Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)
92. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production
and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological)
and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction
93. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
94. Compliance with arms limitation and disarmament and non-proliferation
agreements
95. Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening
of International Security
96. Effects of atomic radiation
97. International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space
98. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
in the Near East
99. Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices
Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other
Arabs of the Occupied Territories
100. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping
operations in all their aspects
101. Questions relating to information
102. Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted
under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations
103. Economic and other activities which affect the interests
of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories
104. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence
to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies
and the international institutions associated with the United
Nations
105. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities
for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories
106. Question of the Malagasy islands of Glorieuses, Juan de Nova,
Europa and Bassas da India
107. Macroeconomic policy questions:
(a) Trade and development
(b) International financial
system and development
(c) Science and technology
for development
(d) External debt crisis
and development
108. Sectoral policy questions:
(a) Business and development
(b) Industrial development
cooperation
109. Sustainable development and international economic cooperation:
(a) Women in development
(b) Human resources development
(c) High-level dialogue on
strengthening international economic cooperation for development
through partnership
(d) Implementation of the commitments
and policies agreed upon in the Declaration on International Economic
Cooperation, in particular the Revitalization of Economic Growth
and Development of the Developing Countries, and implementation
of the International Development Strategy for the Fourth United Nations
Development Decade
110. Environment and sustainable development:
(a) Implementation of Agenda
21 and the Programme for the FurtherImplementation of Agenda 21
(b) International strategy
for disaster reduction
(c) Implementation of the
United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those
Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification,
particularly in Africa
(d) Convention on Biological
Diversity
(e) Further implementation
of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of
Small Island Developing States
(f) Protection of global
climate for present and future generations of mankind
(g) Promotion of new and renewable
sources of energy, including the implementation of the World Solar
Programme 1996-2005
111. Operational activities for development:
(a) Triennial policy
review of operational activities for development of the United
Nations system
(b) Economic and technical
cooperation among developing countries
112. International migration and development, including the question
of the convening of a United Nations conference on international
migration and development to address migration issues
113. 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
114. Implementation of the Habitat Agenda and outcome of the special
session of the General Assembly on this topic
115. Implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the
Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006)
116. Training and research
117. Globalization and interdependence
118. Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries:
(a) Third United Nations
Conference on the Least Developed Countries
(b) Implementation of the
Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the
Decade 2001-2010
119. High-level international intergovernmental consideration
of financing for development
120. Social development, including questions relating to the world
social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the
family
121. Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second
World Assembly on Ageing
122. Crime prevention and criminal justice
123. International drug control
124. Advancement of women
125. Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference
on Women and of the twenty-third special session of the General
Assembly, entitled "Women 2000: gender equality, development and
peace for the twenty-first century"
126. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons
and humanitarian questions
127. Promotion and protection of the rights of children
128. Programme of activities of the International Decade of the
World's Indigenous People
129. Elimination of racism and racial discrimination
130. Right of peoples to self-determination
131. Human rights questions:
(a) Implementation of human
rights instruments
(b) Human rights questions,
including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment
of human rights and fundamental freedoms
(c) Human rights situations
and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives
(d) Comprehensive implementation
of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
(e) Report of the United Nations
High Commissioner for Human Rights
132. Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports
of the Board of Auditors:
(a) United Nations
(b) Voluntary funds administered
by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
133. Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial
functioning of the United Nations
134. Programme budget for the biennium 2000-2001
135. Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2002-2003
136. Pattern of conferences
137. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses
of the United Nations
138. Human resources management
139. United Nations common system
140. Joint Inspection Unit
141. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations
142. Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the
Office of Internal Oversight Services
143. Financing of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution
of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International
Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia
since 1991
144. Financing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the
Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other
Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed
in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for
Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory
of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994
145. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of
the United Nations peacekeeping operations
146. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the
Middle East:
(a) United Nations Disengagement
Observer Force
(b) United Nations Interim Force
in Lebanon
147. Financing of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission
in Kosovo
148. Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration
in East Timor
149. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea
150. Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission
and the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola
151. Financing of the activities arising from
Security Council resolution 687 (1991):
(a) United Nations Iraq-Kuwait
Observation Mission
(b) Other activities
152. Financing of the United Nations Mission in East Timor
153. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone
154. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum
in Western Sahara
155. Financing of the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan
156. Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force
157. Financing and liquidation of the United Nations Transitional
Authority in Cambodia
158. Financing of the United Nations Protection Force, the United
Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia, the
United Nations Preventive Deployment Force and the United Nations
Peace Forces headquarters
159. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II
160. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique
161. Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
162. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia
163. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Haiti
164. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia
165. Financing of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda
166. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina
167. Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration
for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium and the
Civilian Police Support Group
168. Financing of the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti,
the United Nations Transition Mission in Haiti and
the United Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti
169. Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Central African
Republic
170. Financing of the United Nations Organization Mission in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
171. United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study,
Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law
172. Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their
property
173. Report of the United Nations Commission on International
Trade Law on the work of its thirty-fourth session
174. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of
its fifty-third session
175. Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country
176. Establishment of the International Criminal Court
177. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United
Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization
178. Measures to eliminate international terrorism
179. Scope of legal protection under the Convention on the Safety
of United Nations and Associated Personnel
180. Observer status for the International Institute for Democracy
and Electoral Assistance in the General Assembly
181. Administration of justice at the United Nations
182. Observer status for the International Development Law Institute
in the General Assembly
183. Observance of the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation
of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
184. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Pacific Islands
Forum
185. Observer status for the International Hydrographic Organization
in the General Assembly
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This is the provisional agenda as it was issued on 13 July 2001.
More items may be added to this list if requested by Member States.
A draft agenda containing the added items
will be available by the opening of the General Assembly in September.
Published by the United Nations Department of Public
Information
36461-DPI/2210-August 2001-3M
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Fifty-sixth
Session: 2001
