55th session of the
General Assembly
Item 182: Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit
meeting with the Coordinators of the upcoming events
7 December
2000
In order to establish how best to make use of upcoming events within the United
Nations system in the implementation of the outcome of the Summit the office
of the Assembly President arranged the third meeting with the coordinators of
these events on December 7, 2000. The representatives of the respective secretariat
departments/units were also invited.
At the beginning a short summary of the Summit follow-up process was made with
particular attention to the aspect of using the upcoming events in the process
of implementing the outcome of the Millennium Summit. These meetings with the
coordinators are part of the President's efforts to follow-up the implementation
of the Summit Declaration. Furthermore attention was drawn to the aspects of
including coordinated follow-up procedures already at this stage to the processes
in particular through enhanced co-ordination and exchange of information within
the secretariat. This would make the processes coherent, as is called for in
the draft resolution L.56 and to make the different processes complementary.
The meeting focused on two specific issues: civil society's involvement and
reporting and feed back from the events and conferences to the General Assembly.
Civil society
Without going into substance participants were invited to share information
on the process, including preparations of any non-papers and time tables as
well as which meetings would discuss this issue.
Participants were requested to send any information, including possible non-papers,
to General Assembly secretariat in order to have a focal point for information
on the civil society involvement. In this way information will be available
to all coordinators from the office of Mr. Perfiliev.
Istanbul + 5 (Habitat):
Indicated that the resolutions (L.53 and L.54) have been adopted and the process
is under way.
Small Arms Conference:
Preparatory committee has discussed the issues. The Chairperson will circulate
a non-paper shortly on the modalities of participation.
Financing for development:
Process is on its way, hearings will continue.
Children Summit:
Participation and accreditation have been decided already (A/55/43/Part 1),
so called 'no objection basis', modalities are still being planned.
HIV/AIDS Special Session:
The non-paper is coming out during the on the week starting 11 December.
LDC-III and Racism conferences:
Promised to inform the GA secretariat on their respective processes on this
issue.
Reporting back to the General Assembly
In the draft resolution different events and conferences are requested to report
to the Assembly on how they will contribute to the implementation of the Millennium
Declaration. The importance to have continuity in the process was stressed so
that the reporting will take place during preparations but also after the events
as part of follow up.
Participants were invited to state any ideas or thoughts on how the reporting
back to the Assembly could be done in practice. It was suggested that a separate
section on the Summit follow-up be included in the reports of these events and
conferences.
Participants suggested that the President would participate, if possible, in
all upcoming events and conferences in order to underline the role these events
play in the implementation process. A calendar of the up coming events and conferences
is enclosed, the Rio+10 process is added to the list (annex).
Annex
Millennium Summit Follow-up
Dates for Up-Coming Events/Conferences and their Preparatory Processes
January
United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons
in All Its Aspects;
· 2nd Prepcom; New York (8-19)
World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance;
· Informal Consultations; Geneva (15-16)
January-February
Special Session of the General Assembly on Review of the Problem of Human Immunodeficiency
Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in All Its Aspects;
· Open-ended informal/informal consultations of the Plenary; New York (17 January-Mid
February)
Special Session of the General Assembly on Children;
· Second Substantive Session; New York (Jan. 29- Feb. 2)
February
Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDC-III);
· 2nd Prepcom; New York (5-9)
High Level International Intergovernmental Consideration of Financing for Development;
· 2nd Prepcom; New York (12-23)
Special Session of the General Assembly for an overall Review and Appraisal
of the Implementation of the Outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human
Settlements (Istanbul +5);
· 2nd Prepcom; Nairobi (19-23)
Special Session of the General Assembly on Review of the Problem of Human Immunodeficiency
Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in All Its Aspects;
· Plenary of the General Assembly; New York
·Circulation of the Report of the SG and the Issues Paper (20)
February-March
Special Session of the General Assembly on Review of the Problem of Human
Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in All Its Aspects;
· Open-ended informal consultations of the Plenary; New York (Feb. 26-Mar. 2)
· Circulation of the first draft outline of the Declaration of Commitment (Mar.
13)
March
World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance;· Open-Ended Inter-sessional Working Group;
Geneva (6-9)
United Nations Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons
in All Its Aspects;
· 3rd Prepcom; New York (19-30)
March-April
Special Session of the General Assembly on Review of the Problem of Human
Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in All Its Aspects;
· Open-ended informal/informal consultations of the Plenary; New York
April
Special Session of the General Assembly on Review of the Problem of Human
Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in All Its Aspects;
· Open-ended informal consultations of the Plenary; New York (23-27)
Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDC-III);
· 3rd Prepcom; New York (2-6)
April-May
High Level International Intergovernmental Consideration of Financing for
Development;
· 3rd Prepcom; New York (Apr. 30-May 11)
Third United Nations Conference on Least Developed Countries, (LDC III);
· Brussels
(14-20)
May
Special Session of the General Assembly on Review of the Problem of Human
Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in All Its Aspects;
· Draft decision on the recommendation by the GA to the special session on the
Declaration of Commitment
· Plenary of the General Assembly, New York
Ten-Year Review of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development
(RIO+10);
· 1st Prepcom
May-June
World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance;
· 2nd Prepcom; Geneva (May 21- June 1)
Special Session of the General Assembly on Children;
· 3rd Substantive Session, New York (11-15)
June
Special Session of the General Assembly for an overall Review and Appraisal
of the Implementation of the Outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human
Settlements (Istanbul +5);
· New York (6-8)
Special Session of the General Assembly on Review of the Problem of Human Immunodeficiency
Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in All Its Aspects;
· New York (25-27)
July
UN Conference on the Illicit Trade in Small Arms and Light Weapons in All
Its Aspects;
· New York (9-20)
August-September
World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related
Intolerance;
· Durban, South Africa (Aug. 31- Sep. 7)
56th SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
11 September 2001 - 10 September 2002
September
Special Session of the General Assembly on Children
· New York (19-21)
First Quarter of year 2002
High Level International Intergovernmental Consideration of Financing for
Development
January-April
World Summit on Sustainable Development (RIO+10);
· Prepcoms to be decided
May
World Summit on Sustainable Development (RIO+10);
· Ministerial Prepcom, Jakarta, Indonesia
June-September
World Summit on Sustainable Development (RIO+10);
· Johannesburg, South Africa