Items included in the provisional agenda of the sixty-second regular session of the General Assembly
[This list has been published in document A/62/150 (PDF) issued on 19 July 2007; more items may be added if requested by MemberStates.
An updated agenda will be available by the opening of the General Assembly in September 2007.]

  1. 1. Opening of the session by the President of the General Assembly
  2. 2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation
  3. 3. Credentials of representatives to the sixty-second session of the General Assembly:
    1. (a) Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee
    2. (b) Report of the Credentials Committee
  4. 4. Election of the President of the General Assembly
  5. 5. Election of the officers of the Main Committees
  6. 6. Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly
  7. 7. Organization of work, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items: reports of the General Committee
  8. 8. General debate

A. Maintenance of international peace and security

  1. 9. Report of the Security Council
  2. 10. Report of the Peacebuilding Commission
  3. 11. Elimination of unilateral extraterritorial coercive economic measures as a means of political and economic compulsion
  4. 12. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies
  5. 13. The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict
  6. 14. Prevention of armed conflict
  7. 15. The situation in Central America: progress in fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and development
  8. 16. Protracted conflicts in the GUAM area and their implications for international peace, security and development
  9. 17. The situation in the Middle East
  10. 18. Question of Palestine
  11. 19. The situation in Afghanistan
  12. 20. The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan
  13. 21. Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte
  14. 22. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba
  15. 23. Question of Cyprus
  16. 24. Armed aggression against the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  17. 25. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
  18. 26. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti
  19. 27. 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
  20. 28. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against Kuwait
  21. 29. 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
  22. 30. Assistance in mine action
  23. 31. Effects of atomic radiation
  24. 32. International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space
  25. 33. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
  26. 34. Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories
  27. 35. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects
  28. 36. Questions relating to information
  29. 37. Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article73e of the Charter of the United Nations
  30. 38. Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories
  31. 39. 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
  32. 40. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories
  33. 41. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
  34. 42. Question of the Malagasy islands of Glorieuses, Juan de Nova, Europa and Bassas da India
  35. 43. Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources
  36. 44. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions

B. Promotion of sustained economic growth and sustainable development in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and recent United Nations conferences

  1. 45. Report of the Economic and Social Council
  2. 46. Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the Political Declaration on HIV/AIDS
  3. 47. Sport for peace and development:
    1. (a) Sport for peace and development
    2. (b) Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal
  4. 48. Global road safety crisis
  5. 49. 2001-2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria
    6. in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa
  6. 50. Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields
  7. 51. Culture of peace
  8. 52. The role of the United Nations in promoting a new global human order
  9. 53. Information and communication technologies for development
  10. 54. Macroeconomic policy questions:
    1. (a) International trade and development
    2. (b) International financial system and development
    3. (c) External debt crisis and development
  11. 55. Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development:
    1. (a) Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development
    2. (b) High-level dialogue for the implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development
  12. 56. Sustainable development:
    1. (a) Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
    2. (b) Follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States
    3. (c) International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
    4. (d) Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind
    5. (e) Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa
    6. (f) Convention on Biological Diversity
    7. (g) Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twenty-fourth session
    8. (h) Sustainable mountain development
    9. (i) Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy
  13. 57. Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
  14. 58. Globalization and interdependence:
    1. (a) Globalization and interdependence
    2. (b) Science and technology for development
    3. (c) Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of assets of illicit origin and returning such assets, in particular to the countries of origin, consistent with the United Nations Convention against Corruption
  15. 59. Groups of countries in special situations:
    1. (a) Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries
    2. (b) Specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries: outcome of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation
  16. 60. Eradication of poverty and other development issues:
    1. (a) Implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006)
    2. (b) Women in development
    3. (c) Human resources development
  17. 61. Operational activities for development:
    1. (a) Operational activities for development of the United Nations system
    2. (b) Triennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system
    3. (c) South-South cooperation for development
  18. 62. Training and research: United Nations Institute for Training and Research
  19. 63. Towards global partnerships
  20. 64. Social development:
    1. (a) Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
    2. (b) Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family
    3. (c) Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing
  21. 65. Advancement of women:
    1. (a) Advancement of women
    2. (b) Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women and of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly

C. Development of Africa

  1. 66. New Partnership for Africa's Development: progress in implementation and international support:
    1. (a) New Partnership for Africa's Development: progress in implementation and international support
    2. (b) Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa

D. Promotion of human rights

  1. 67. Report of the Human Rights Council
  2. 68. Promotion and protection of the rights of children:
    1. (a) Promotion and protection of the rights of children
    2. (b) Follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children
  3. 69. Indigenous issues:
    1. (a) Indigenous issues
    2. (b) Second International Decade of the World's Indigenous People
  4. 70. Elimination of racism and racial discrimination:
    1. (a) Elimination of racism and racial discrimination
    2. (b) Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
  5. 71. Right of peoples to self-determination
  6. 72. Promotion and protection of human rights:
    1. (a) Implementation of human rights instruments
    2. (b) Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms
    3. (c) Human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives
    4. (d) Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
    5. (e) Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

E. Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance efforts

  1. 73. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance:
    1. (a) Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations
    2. (b) Special economic assistance to individual countries or regions
    3. (c) Assistance to the Palestinian people
    4. (d) Strengthening of international cooperation and coordination of efforts to study, mitigate and minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster
  2. 74. Assistance to survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, particularly orphans, widows and victims of sexual violence

F. Promotion of justice and international law

  1. 75. Report of the International Court of Justice
  2. 76. 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
  3. 77. 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
  4. 78. Report of the International Criminal Court
  5. 79. Oceans and the law of the sea:
    1. (a) Oceans and the law of the sea
    2. (b) Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 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, and related instruments
  6. 80. Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts
  7. 81. United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law
  8. 82. Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission
  9. 83. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its fortieth session
  10. 84. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its fifty-ninth session
  11. 85. Diplomatic protection
  12. 86. Consideration of prevention of transboundary harm from hazardous activities and allocation of loss in the case of such harm
  13. 87. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization
  14. 88. The rule of law at the national and international levels

G. Disarmament

  1. 89. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency
  2. 90. Reduction of military budgets:
    1. (a) Reduction of military budgets
    2. (b) Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures
  3. 91. Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace
  4. 92. African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty
  5. 93. Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)
  6. 94. Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening of International Security
  7. 95. Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security
  8. 96. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East
  9. 97. Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons
  10. 98. Prevention of an arms race in outer space
  11. 99. Verification in all its aspects, including the role of the United Nations in the field of verification
  12. 100. General and complete disarmament:
    1. (a) Notification of nuclear tests
    2. (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
    3. (c) Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes
    4. (d) Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995 and 2000 Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
    5. (e) Preventing the risk of radiological terrorism
    6. (f) Missiles
    7. (g) Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament
    8. (h) Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non‑proliferation
    9. (i) Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control
    10. (j) Relationship between disarmament and development
    11. (k) Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments
    12. (l) The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects
    13. (m) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction
    14. (n) Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas
    15. (o) Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and collecting them
    16. (p) Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus
    17. (q) Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities
    18. (r) Transparency in armaments
    19. (s) Nuclear disarmament
    20. (t) Regional disarmament
    21. (u) Confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context
    22. (v) Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels
    23. (w) Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons
    24. (x) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction
    25. (y) Reducing nuclear danger
    26. (z) Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction
    27. (aa) Towards an arms trade treaty: establishing common international standards for the import, export and transfer of conventional arms
    28. (bb) United Nations conference to identify ways of eliminating nuclear dangers in the context of nuclear disarmament
  13. 101. Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly:
    1. (a) United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament
    2. (b) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
    3. (c) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa
    4. (d) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific
    5. (e) Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa
    6. (f) Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons
  14. 102. Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session:
    1. (a) Report of the Disarmament Commission
    2. (b) Report of the Conference on Disarmament
  15. 103. The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East
  16. 104. 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
  17. 105. Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region
  18. 106. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
  19. 107. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction

H. Drug control, crime prevention and combating international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations

  1. 108. Crime prevention and criminal justice
  2. 109. International drug control
  3. 110. Measures to eliminate international terrorism

I. Organizational, administrative and other matters

  1. 111. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization
  2. 112. Report of the Secretary-General on the Peacebuilding Fund
  3. 113. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations
  4. 114. Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs:
    1. (a) Election of five non-permanent members of the Security Council
    2. (b) Election of eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council
  5. 115. Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections:
    1. (a) Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination
    2. (b) Election of twenty-nine members of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme
    3. (c) Election of five members of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission
    4. (d) Election of fifteen members of the Human Rights Council
  6. 116. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other appointments:
    1. (a) Appointment of members of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions
    2. (b) Appointment of members of the Committee on Contributions
    3. (c) Confirmation of the appointment of members of the Investments Committee
    4. (d) Appointment of a member of the Board of Auditors
    5. (e) Appointment of members of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal
    6. (f) Appointment of members of the Independent Audit Advisory Committee (sub-item proposed by the Secretary-General)
    7. (g) Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences
    8. (h) Appointment of members of the Joint Inspection Unit
    9. (i) Approval of the appointment of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  7. 117. Admission of new Members to the United Nations
  8. 118. Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit
  9. 119. United Nations reform: measures and proposals
  10. 120. The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
  11. 121. Commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade
  12. 122. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations
  13. 123. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly
  14. 124. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters
  15. 125. Strengthening of the United Nations system
  16. 126. Follow-up to the recommendations on administrative management and internal oversight of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme
  17. 127. Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors:
    1. (a) United Nations peacekeeping operations
    2. (b) Capital master plan
    3. (c) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
    4. (d) United Nations Office for Project Services
  18. 128. Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations
  19. 129. Programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007
  20. 130. Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009
  21. 131. Programme planning
  22. 132. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations
  23. 133. Pattern of conferences
  24. 134. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations
  25. 135. Human resources management
  26. 136. Joint Inspection Unit
  27. 137. United Nations common system
  28. 138. Report on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services
  29. 139. Administration of justice at the United Nations
  30. 140. 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
  31. 141. 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
  32. 142. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations
  33. 143. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Burundi
  34. 144. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire
  35. 145. Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
  36. 146. Financing of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  37. 147. Financing of the United Nations Mission in East Timor
  38. 148. Financing of the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor
  39. 149. Financing of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste
  40. 150. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea
  41. 151. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia
  42. 152. Financing of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti
  43. 153. Financing of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
  44. 154. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Liberia
  45. 155. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle East:
    1. (a) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force
    2. (b) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
  46. 156. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone
  47. 157. Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan
  48. 158. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
  49. 159. Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country
  50. 160. Observer status for the Regional Centre on Small Arms and Light Weapons in the Great Lakes Region and the Horn of Africa in the General Assembly
  51. 161. Observer status for the Italian–Latin American Institute in the General Assembly
  52. 162. Proclamation of the International Year of Human Rights Learning

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