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62nd session

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Sixty-third session

Provisional information

Briefing for delegates on Sixth Committee agenda items at the 63rd session

The Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs will give, on 15 September 2008, a briefing for delegates on items on the agenda of the Sixth Committee at the 63rd session of the General Assembly (Programme of the briefing).

Provisional programme of work for the 63rd session

• Provisional programme of work of the Sixth Committee for the sixty-third, as adopted by decision of the General Assembly on 6 December 2007 (see Report of the Sixth Committee on the item "Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly": A/62/456).

• Proposed dates for the Working Groups and Additional information from the incoming Bureau of the Sixth Committee (PDF file).

Sixty-second session

General information

Summary of action taken by the General Assembly

Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly on items allocated to the Sixth Committee (List of resolutions and decisions).

Calendar of forthcoming meetings of committees

• Calendar of meetings for the Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996 and for the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strenghtening of the Role of the Organization - Provisional programme of work (25 February - 7 March 2008) (PDF file)
• Calendar of meetings for the Ad Hoc Committee on Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission and for the Ad Hoc Committee on Administration of justice at the United Nations - Provisional programme of work (7-25 April 2008) (PDF file)

Provisional programme of work

The Sixth Committee met from 8 October to 15 November 2007.

• Revised provisional programme of work in Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly. Report of the Sixth Committee (A/61/458/Add.1)

• Allocation of agenda items to the Sixth Committee (A/C.6/62/1)

• Proposed dates for the Working Groups and Additional information from the incoming Bureau of the Sixth Committee (PDF file)

Agenda items allocated to the Sixth Committee

Click on the following links to obtain information, relevant documentation and summaries of the work of the Sixth Committee on each item at the 62nd session.

• Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts
  (Agenda Item 78)
  
  
• United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law
  (Agenda Item 79)
  
  
• Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission
  (Agenda Item 80)
  
  
• Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its fortieth session
  (Agenda Item 81)
  
  
• Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its fifty-ninth session
  (Agenda Item 82)
  
  
• Diplomatic protection
  (Agenda Item 83)
  
  
• Consideration of prevention of transboundary harm from hazardous activities and allocation of loss in the case of such harm
  (Agenda Item 84)
  
  
• Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization
  (Agenda Item 85)
  
  
• The rule of law at the national and international levels
  (Agenda Item 86)
  
  
• Measures to eliminate international terrorism
  (Agenda Item 108)
  
  
• Administration of justice at the United Nations
  (Agenda Item 137)
  
  
• Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country
  (Agenda Item 157)
  
  
• 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
  (Agenda Item 158)
  
  
• Observer status for the Italian-Latin American Institute in the General Assembly
  (Agenda Item 159)

• Observer status for the Energy Charter Conference in the General Assembly
  (Agenda Item 160)

• Observer status for the Eurasian Development Bank in the General Assembly
  (Agenda Item 162)

• Observer status for the Conference on International and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia in the General Assembly
  (Agenda Item 165)

• Observer status for the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf in the General Assembly
  (Agenda Item 166)