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Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly
Date of consideration:
11
November 2005
References for the 59th
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A/59/860
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A/59/860/Add.1
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Revitalization
of the work of the General Assembly
Documents:
A/60/= [F] [S]
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Report of
the Secretary-General (ref. res. 58/316)
A/60/440-S/2005/658
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A/60/440/Corr.1-S/2005/658/Corr.1
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A/60/440/Corr.2-S/2005/658/Corr.2
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Letter
dated 17 October 2005 from the Permanent Representative of Yemen
to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
Summary:
This item, which was
included in the agenda of the forty-sixth session of the
General Assembly, in 1991, had originally been proposed for
inclusion in the draft agenda of that session by the President
of the Assembly at its forty-fifth session (see decision
45/461).
The General Assembly
considered the question at its forty-sixth to forty-eighth,
fifty-second, fifty-third and fifty-fifth sessions
(resolutions 46/77, 47/233, 48/264 and 55/285 and decisions
52/479 and 53/491).
At its fifty-fourth
session, the General Assembly decided to defer consideration
of the item and to include it in the draft agenda of its
subsequent session (decision 54/491).
At its fifty-fifth
session, the General Assembly, inter alia, decided to cluster,
biennialize or triennialize a number of agenda items
(resolution 55/285).
At its fifty-sixth
session, the General Assembly amended rules 30, 31 and 99 of
its rules of procedure concerning the election of the
President and the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly, as
well as the election of the Chairmen and other officers of the
Main Committees of the Assembly (resolution 56/509). At its
fifty-eighth session, the Assembly decided that the full
Bureaux of the Main Committees should be elected three months
in advance of the next session (resolution 58/126, annex,
sect. B) (see items 1 and 4 to 6).
At its fifty-seventh
session, the General Assembly amended rule 1 of the rules of
procedure of the Assembly concerning the opening date of its
regular session and also decided on the opening date and
duration of the general debate (see items 1 and 8) (resolution
57/301).
At its fifty-eighth
session, in 2003, the General Assembly adopted a text on
enhancing the authority and role of the General Assembly and
on improving its working methods (resolution
58/126, annex).
At its resumed
fifty-eighth session, in July 2004, the General Assembly
adopted a number of measures, inter alia, to reorder the work
of the General Assembly, reorganize the agenda of the
Assembly, improve the practices and working methods of the
Main Committees, enhance the role of the General Committee and
reduce the volume of documentation that was submitted to the
Assembly; and requested the Secretary-General to report on all
aspects of the implementation of resolutions 58/126 and 58/316
to the Assembly at its sixtieth session (resolution
58/316).
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