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INCLUDED IN THE PROVISIONAL AGENDA (
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OF THE FIFTY-SEVENTH REGULAR SESSION
OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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[50-100]
[100-150]
[150-185]
1.
Opening of the session by the President
of the General Assembly
2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation
3. Credentials of representatives to
the fifty-seventh 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 five members of the International
Court of Justice
16. Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary
organs and other elections: election
of twenty members of the Committee for
Programme and Coordination
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) Confirmation
of the appointment of members of the
Investments Committee
(d) Appointment
of members of the United Nations Administrative
Tribunal
(e) International
Civil Service Commission
(i) Appointment
of members of the Commission
(ii) Designation
of the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman
of the Commission
(f) Appointment
of members of the Joint Inspection Unit
(g) Appointment
of members of the Committee on Conferences
(h) Confirmation
of the appointment of the Secretary-General
of the United Nations Conference onTrade
and Development
(i)
Confirmation of the appointment of the
Administrator of the United Nations
Development Programme
18.
Election of judges 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
19.
Implementation of the Declaration on
the Granting of Independence to Colonial
Countries and Peoples
20. Admission of new Members to the
United Nations
21. 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) Assistance
to the Palestinian people
(d) Emergency
international assistance for peace,
normalcy and reconstruction of war-stricken
Afghanistan
22. Cooperation between the United Nations
and regional and other organizations
(a) Cooperation
between the United Nations and the Asian-African
Legal Consultative Organization
(b) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Black Sea
Economic Cooperation
(c) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Caribbean
Community
(d) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Council of
Europe
(e) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Economic
Community of Central African States
(f) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Economic
Cooperation Organization
(g) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the International
Organization of la Francophonie
(h) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary
Union
(i) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Latin American
Economic System
(j) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the League of
Arab States
(k) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Organization
for the Prohibition of Chemical
Weapons
(l) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Organization
for Security and Cooperation in
Europe
(m) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Organization
of African Unity
(n) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Organization
of American States
(o) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Organization
of the Islamic Conference
(p) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Pacific Islands
Forum
(q) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Preparatory
Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban
Treaty Organization
(r) Cooperation between
the United Nations and the Southern
African Development Community
23. United Nations Year for Cultural
Heritage
24. Culture of peace
25. Oceans and the law of the sea:
(a) Oceans and the
law of the sea
(b) Large-scale pelagic
drift-net fishing, unauthorized fishing
in zones of national jurisdiction and
on the high seas/illegal, unreported
and unregulated fishing, fisheries by-catch
and discards, and other
developments
(c) 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
26. Necessity of ending the economic,
commercial and financial embargo imposed
by the United States of
America against Cuba
27. The role of diamonds in fuelling
conflict
28. Assistance in mine action
29. 2001-2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria
in Developing Countries, particularly
in Africa
30. The role of the United Nations in
promoting a new global human order
31. Elimination of unilateral extraterritorial
coercive economic measures as a means
of political and economic compulsion
32. Information and communication technologies
for development
33. Causes of conflict and the promotion
of durable peace and sustainable development
in Africa
34. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
35. Question of Palestine
36. The situation in the Middle East
37. The situation in Afghanistan and
its implications for international peace
and security
38. 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
39. Question of the Falkland Islands
(Malvinas)
40. Question of equitable representation
on and increase in the membership of
the Security Council and related matters
41. Final review and appraisal of the
implementation of the United Nations
New Agenda for the Development of Africa
in the 1990s:
(a) Final review
and appraisal of the implementation
of the United Nations New Agenda for
the Development of Africa in the 1990s
(b) Implementation
of the programme for the Second Industrial
Development Decade for Africa
42. Follow-up to the outcome of the
twenty-sixth special session: implementation
of the Declaration of Commitment on
HIV/AIDS
43. Follow-up to the outcome of the
special session on children
44. Follow-up to the outcome of the
Millennium Summit
45. 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
46. 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
47. 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
48. 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
49. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation
of and aggression against Kuwait
50. Implementation of the resolutions
of the United Nations
51. Launching of global
negotiations on international economic
cooperation for development
52. Question of the Comorian island
of Mayotte
53. Strengthening of the United Nations
system
54. Revitalization of the work of the
General Assembly
55. Question of Cyprus
56. Armed aggression against the Democratic
Republic of the Congo
57. Peace, security and reunification
on the Korean peninsula
58. Reduction of military budgets
59. Prohibition of the development and
manufacture of new types of weapons
of mass destruction and new systems
of such weapons: report of the Conference
on Disarmament
60. Question of Antarctica
61. Maintenance of international security
- good-neighbourliness, stability and
development in South-Eastern Europe
62. Developments in the field of information
and telecommunications in the context
of international security
63. Role of science and technology in
the context of international security
and disarmament
64. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free
zone in the region of the Middle East
65. Conclusion of effective international
arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon
States against the use or threat of
use of nuclear weapons
66. Prevention of an arms race in outer
space
67. General and complete disarmament:
(a) Notification of
nuclear tests
(b) Towards a nuclear-weapon-free
world: the need for a new agenda
(c) United Nations
study on disarmament and non-proliferation
education
(d) Measures to uphold
the authority of the 1925 Geneva Protocol
(e) Mongolia's international
security and nuclear-weapon-free status
(f) Preservation
of and compliance with the Treaty on
the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile
Systems
(g) Missiles
(h) Reducing nuclear
danger
(i) Convening of
the fourth special session of the General
Assembly devoted to disarmament
(j) Relationship
between disarmament and development
(k) Observance of
environmental norms in the drafting
and implementation of agreements on
disarmament and arms control
(l) Nuclear-weapon-free
southern hemisphere and adjacent areas
(m) Regional disarmament
(n) Conventional
arms control at the regional and subregional
levels
(o) Implementation
of the Convention on the Prohibition
of the Development, Production, Stockpiling
and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their
Destruction
(p) Implementation
of the Convention on the Prohibition
of the Use, Stockpiling, Production
and
Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and
on Their Destruction
(q) Consolidation
of peace through practical disarmament
measures
(r) Transparency
in armaments
(s) Nuclear disarmament
(t) Follow-up to
the advisory opinion of the International
Court of Justice on the Legality of
the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons
(u) Assistance to
States for curbing the illicit traffic
in small arms and collecting them
(v) The illicit trade
in small arms and light weapons in all
its aspects
(w) Establishment
of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central
Asia
(x) United Nations
conference to identify ways of eliminating
nuclear dangers in the context of nuclear
disarmament
68. Review and implementation of the
Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special
Session of the General Assembly:
(a) United Nations
Disarmament Information Programme
(b) United Nations
disarmament fellowship, training and
advisory services
(c) Regional confidence-building
measures: activities of the United Nations
Standing Advisory Committee on Security
Questions in Central Africa
(d) Convention on
the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear
Weapons
(e) United Nations
regional centres for peace and disarmament
(f) United Nations
Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament
in Africa
(g) United Nations
Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament
and Development in Latin America and
the Caribbean
(h) United Nations
Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament
in Asia and the Pacific
69. 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
Disarmament Commission
(d) Report of the
Conference on Disarmament
70. The risk of nuclear proliferation
in the Middle East
71. 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
72. Strengthening of security and cooperation
in the Mediterranean region
73. Convention on the Prohibition of
the Development, Production and Stockpiling
of Bacteriological (Biological) and
Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction
74. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
75. Effects of atomic radiation
76. International cooperation in the
peaceful uses of outer space
77. United Nations Relief and Works
Agency for Palestine Refugees in the
Near East
78. Report of the Special Committee
to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting
the Human Rights of the Palestinian
People and Other Arabs of the Occupied
Territories
79. Comprehensive review of the whole
question of peacekeeping operations
in all their aspects
80. Questions relating to information
81. Information from Non-Self-Governing
Territories transmitted under Article
73 e of the Charter of the United Nations
82. Economic and other activities which
affect the interests of the peoples
of the Non-Self-Governing Territories
83. 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
84. Offers by Member States of study
and training facilities for inhabitants
of Non-Self-Governing Territories
85. Question of the Malagasy islands
of Glorieuses, Juan de Nova, Europa
and Bassas da India
86. Macroeconomic policy questions:
(a) International
trade and development
(b) Commodities
(c) Science
and technology for development
(d) External
debt crisis and development
(e) International
financial system and development
(f) Preparations
for the International Ministerial Meeting
on Transit Transport Cooperation
87. Sectoral policy questions:
(a) Industrial
development cooperation
(b) Business
and development
(c) Preventing
and combating corrupt practices and
transfer of funds of illicit origin
and returning such funds to the countries
of origin
88. Sustainable development and international
economic cooperation:
(a)
Implementation of 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
(b)
Integration of the economies in transition
into the world economy
(c) Culture
and development
(d) High-level
dialogue on strengthening international
economic cooperation for development
through partnership
89. Environment and sustainable development
(a) Implementation
of Agenda 21 and the Programme for the
Further Implementation of Agenda 21
(b) International
Strategy for Disaster Reduction
(c) Protection of
global climate for present and future
generations of mankind
(d) Implementation
of the United Nations Convention to
Combat Desertification in Those Countries
Experiencing Serious Drought and/or
Desertification, particularly in Africa
(e) Convention on
Biological Diversity
(f) Further implementation
of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable
Development of Small
Island Developing States
90. Operational activities for development
91. Implementation of the first United
Nations Decade for the Eradication of
Poverty (1997-2006)
92. Training and research:
(a) United Nations
University
(b) United Nations
Institute for Training and Research
93. 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
94. Integrated and coordinated implementation
of and follow-up to the outcomes of
the major United Nations conferences
and summits in the economic and social
fields
95. High-level international intergovernmental
consideration of financing for development
96. Globalization and interdependence
97. Implementation of the outcome of
the United Nations Conference on Human
Settlements (Habitat II) and of the
twenty-fifth special session of the
General Assembly
98. United Nations Relief and Works
Agency for Palestine Refugees in the
Near East
99. Implementation of the outcome of
the World Summit for Social Development
and of the twenty-fourth special session
of the General Assembly
100. Social development, including questions
relating to the world social situation
and to youth, ageing, disabled persons
and the family
101. Follow-up to
the International Year of Older Persons:
Second World Assembly on Ageing
102. Crime prevention and criminal justice
103. International drug control
104. Advancement of women
105. 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"
106. Report of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees, questions
relating to refugees, returnees and
displaced persons and humanitarian questions
107. Promotion and protection of the
rights of children
108. Programme of activities of the
International Decade of the World's
Indigenous People
109. Elimination of racism and racial
discrimination:
(a) Elimination of racism and racial
discrimination
(b)
Comprehensive implementation of and
follow-up to the Durban Declaration
and Programme of Action
110. Right of peoples to self-determination
111. 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
112. Financial reports and audited financial
statements, and reports of the Board
of Auditors
(a)
United Nations
(b)
United Nations Development Programme
(c)
United Nations Children's Fund
(d)
United Nations Relief and Works Agency
for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
(e) United
Nations Institute for Training and Research
(f) Voluntary funds administered by
the United Nations High Commissioner
for Refugees
(g) Fund
of the United Nations Environment Programme
(h) United
Nations Population Fund
(i) United
Nations Habitat and Human Settlements
Foundation
(j) Fund of
the United Nations International Drug
Control Programme
(k)
United Nations Office for Project Services
(l)
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
(m)
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
113. Review of the efficiency of the
administrative and financial functioning
of the United Nations
114. Programme budget for the biennium
2002-2003
115. Programme planning
116. Improving the financial situation
of the United Nations
117. Administrative and budgetary coordination
of the United Nations with the specialized
agencies and the
International Atomic Energy Agency
118. Pattern of conferences
119. Scale of assessments for the apportionment
of the expenses of the United Nations
120. Human resources management
121. Joint Inspection Unit
122. United Nations common system
123. United Nations pension system
124. Report of the Secretary-General
on the activities of the Office of Internal
Oversight Services
125. Administration of justice at the
United Nations
126. 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
127. 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
128. Administrative and budgetary aspects
of the financing of the United Nations
peacekeeping operations
129. Financing of the United Nations
peacekeeping forces in the Middle East:
(a)
United Nations Disengagement Observer
Force
(b)
United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
130. Financing of the United Nations
Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
131. Financing of the United Nations
Transitional Administration in East
Timor and the United Nations
Mission of Support in East Timor
132. Financing of the United Nations
Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea
133. Financing of the United Nations
Angola Verification Mission and the
United Nations Observer Mission
in Angola
134. Financing of the activities arising
from Security Council resolution 687
(1991):
(a)
United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation
Mission
(b)
Other activities
135. Financing of the United Nations
Mission in East Timor
136. Financing of the United Nations
Mission in Sierra Leone
137. Financing of the United Nations
Mission for the Referendum in Western
Sahara
138. Financing of the United Nations
Mission of Observers in Tajikistan
139. Financing of the United Nations
Preventive Deployment Force
140. Financing and liquidation of the
United Nations Transitional Authority
in Cambodia
141. 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
142. Financing of the United Nations
Operation in Somalia II
143. Financing of the United Nations
Operation in Mozambique
144. Financing of the United Nations
Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
145. Financing of the United Nations
Observer Mission in Georgia
146. Financing of the United Nations
Mission in Haiti
147. Financing of the United Nations
Observer Mission in Liberia
148. Financing of the United Nations
Assistance Mission for Rwanda
149. Financing of the United Nations
Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina
150. Financing of the United Nations
Transitional Administration for Eastern
Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium
and the Civilian Police Support Group
151. 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
152. Financing of the United Nations
Mission in the Central African Republic
153. Financing of the United Nations
Organization Mission in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo
154. Status of the Protocols Additional
to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and
relating to the protection of victims
of armed conflicts
155. Consideration of effective measures
to enhance the protection, security
and safety of diplomatic and consular
missions and representatives
156. Convention on jurisdictional immunities
of States and their property
157. Report of the United Nations Commission
on International Trade Law on the work
of its thirty-fifth session
158. Report of the International Law
Commission on the work of its fifty-fourth
session
159. Report of the Committee on Relations
with the Host Country
160. Establishment of the International
Criminal Court
161. Report of the Special Committee
on the Charter of the United Nations
and on the Strengthening of the Role
of the Organization
162. Measures to eliminate international
terrorism
163. Scope of legal protection under
the Convention on the Safety of United
Nations and Associated Personnel
164. International convention against
the reproductive cloning of human beings
165. Observer status for the International
Institute for Democracy and Electoral
Assistance in the General Assembly
166. Observer status for Partners in
Population and Development in the General
Assembly
167. Observer status for the Asian Development
Bank in the General Assembly
168. Observer status for the International
Centre for Migration Policy Development
in the General Assembly
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This is the provisional agenda as it
was issued on 17 July 2002. 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
DPI/2281--August 2002
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Fifty-seventh
Session: 2002
