Sixty-ninth General Assembly

Plenary

2^nd Meeting (AM)

General Assembly Adopts Work Programme for Sixty-ninth Session

 

Acting on the recommendations of its General Committee, the General Assembly this morning adopted the work programme and agenda for its sixty-ninth session, which contained 172 items, and endorsed the recommendation that its general debate would be held from 24 to 27 September and from 29 September to 1 October.

That information, and other organizational matters concerning the Assembly, was contained in the General Committee’s first report (document A/69/250).

Among the topics to be considered in the current Assembly session were several new ones, including:  follow-up to the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development; no placement of weapons in outer space; cooperation between the United Nations and the Commonwealth of Independent States; and the seventieth anniversary of the end of the Second World War.  It was also decided that items on observer status for the Developing Eight Countries Organization for Economic Cooperation and for the Pacific Community would be included in the work programme.

The Question of the Comorian Island of Mayotte was included on the understanding that the matter would not be considered.  The Assembly also deferred consideration of the Question of the Malagasy Islands of Glorieuses, Juan de Nova, Europa and Bassas da India to its seventieth session.

During approval of various items in the agenda grouped under Heading B of the document, concerning maintenance of international peace and security, Armenia’s representative disassociated his delegation from the consensus to include an item on “The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan”.

The Assembly decided that the delegations of the Holy See and the State of Palestine would participate in the sixty-ninth session as observer States, and that the European Union would participate in the work of the session as an observer.

Lastly, the Assembly decided to appoint the same members of its Credentials Committee for its sixty-ninth session to the Credentials Committee of its twenty-ninth special session on Follow-up to the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development beyond 2014, scheduled for 22 September 2014.  Those members included:  Brazil, China, Bangladesh, Denmark, Jamaica, Namibia, Senegal, Russian Federation and the United States.

The Assembly will reconvene at 3 p.m. to consider a draft resolution on global health and foreign policy.

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