Agenda
Items included in the provisional agenda of the 70th regular session of the General Assembly
- Opening of the session by the President of the General Assembly
- Minute of silent prayer or meditation
- Credentials of representatives to the seventieth session of the General Assembly:
- (a) Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee
- (b) Report of the Credentials Committee
- Election of the President of the General Assembly
- Election of the officers of the Main Committees
- Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly
- Organization of work, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items: reports of the General Committee
- General debate
- Report of the Economic and Social Council
- Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin
- Implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS and the political declarations on HIV/AIDS
- Sport for development and peace: building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal
- Improving global road safety
- 2001-2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, Particularly in Africa
- 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
- Culture of peace
- Information and communications technologies for development
- Macroeconomic policy questions:
- (a) International trade and development
- (b) International financial system and development
- (c) External debt sustainability and development
- (d) Commodities
- Follow-up to and implementation of the outcomes of the International Conferences on Financing for Development
- Sustainable development:
- (a) Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development and of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development
- (b) Follow-up to and implementation of the SIDS Accelerated Modalities of Action (SAMOA) Pathway and the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States
- (c) International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
- (d) Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind
- (e) Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa
- (f) Convention on Biological Diversity
- (g) Harmony with Nature
- (h) United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
- 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)
- Globalization and interdependence:
- (a) Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence
- (b) Science and technology for development
- (c) Culture and sustainable development
- (d) Development cooperation with middle-income countries
- Groups of countries in special situations:
- (a) Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries
- (b) Follow-up to the second United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries
- Eradication of poverty and other development issues:
- (a) Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017)
- (b) Women in development
- (c) Human resources development
- Operational activities for development:
- (a) Operational activities for development of the United Nations system
- (b) South-South cooperation for development
- Agriculture development, food security and nutrition
- Towards global partnerships
- Social development:
- (a) Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly
- (b) Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family
- (c) Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing
- Advancement of women:
- (a) Advancement of women
- (b) Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women and of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly
- Report of the Security Council
- Report of the Peacebuilding Commission
- Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies
- The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict
- Prevention of armed conflict:
- (a) Prevention of armed conflict
- (b) Strengthening the role of mediation in the peaceful settlement of disputes, conflict prevention and resolution
- Protracted conflicts in the GUAM area and their implications for international peace, security and development
- Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic
- The situation in the Middle East
- Question of Palestine
- The situation in Afghanistan
- The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan
- Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte
- Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba
- The situation in Central America: progress in fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and development
- Question of Cyprus
- Armed aggression against the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
- The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti
- 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
- Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against Kuwait
- University for Peace
- Assistance in mine action
- Effects of atomic radiation
- International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space
- United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
- Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories
- Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects
- Comprehensive review of special political missions
- Questions relating to information
- Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73e of the Charter of the United Nations
- Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories
- 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
- Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories
- Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
- Question of the Malagasy islands of Glorieuses, Juan de Nova, Europa and Bassas da India
- 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
- Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions
- New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support:
- (a) New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support
- (b) Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa
- Report of the Human Rights Council
- Promotion and protection of the rights of children:
- (a) Promotion and protection of the rights of children
- (b) Follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children
- Rights of indigenous peoples:
- (a) Rights of indigenous peoples
- (b) Follow-up to the outcome document of the high-level plenary meeting of the General Assembly known as the World Conference on Indigenous Peoples
- Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance:
- (a) Elimination of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance
- (b) Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action
- Right of peoples to self-determination
- Promotion and protection of human rights:
- (a) Implementation of human rights instruments
- (b) Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms
- (c) Human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives
- (d) Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action
- Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance:
- (a) Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations
- (b) Assistance to the Palestinian people
- (c) Special economic assistance to individual countries or regions
- (d) Strengthening of international cooperation and coordination of efforts to study, mitigate and minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster
- Assistance to survivors of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, particularly orphans, widows and victims of sexual violence
- Report of the International Court of Justice
- 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
- 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
- Report of the International Criminal Court
- Oceans and the law of the sea:
- (a) Oceans and the law of the sea
- (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
- Criminal accountability of United Nations officials and experts on mission
- Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its forty-eighth session
- United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law
- Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its sixty-seventh session
- Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization
- The rule of law at the national and international levels
- The scope and application of the principle of universal jurisdiction
- Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency
- Reduction of military budgets:
- (a) Reduction of military budgets
- (b) Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures
- Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace
- African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty
- Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening of International Security
- Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security
- Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East
- Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons
- Prevention of an arms race in outer space:
- (a) Prevention of an arms race in outer space
- (b) No first placement of weapons in outer space
- Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament
- General and complete disarmament:
- (a) Treaty banning the production of fissile material for nuclear weapons or other nuclear explosive devices
- (b) Nuclear disarmament
- (c) Notification of nuclear tests
- (d) Relationship between disarmament and development
- (e) Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes
- (f) Regional disarmament
- (g) Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels
- (h) Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament
- (i) Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas
- (j) Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control
- (k) Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons
- (l) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction
- (m) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction
- (n) Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and light weapons and collecting them
- (o) Reducing nuclear danger
- (p) The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects
- (q) Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments
- (r) Promotion of multilateralism in the area of disarmament and non proliferation
- (s) National legislation on transfer of arms, military equipment and dual-use goods and technology
- (t) Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction
- (u) Confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context
- (v) Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus
- (w) Transparency and confidence-building measures in outer space activities
- (x) Follow-up to nuclear disarmament obligations agreed to at the 1995, 2000 and 2010 Review Conferences of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
- (y) The Arms Trade Treaty
- (z) Treaty on the South-East Asia Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone (Bangkok Treaty)
- (aa) United action towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons
- (bb) Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations
- (cc) Follow-up to the 2013 high-level meeting of the General Assembly on nuclear disarmament
- (dd) Joint ad hoc meeting of the First and Fourth Committees on possible challenges to space security and sustainability
- Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly:
- (a) Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons
- (b) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa
- (c) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
- (d) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific
- (e) Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa
- (f) United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament
- Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session:
- (a) Report of the Conference on Disarmament
- (b) Report of the Disarmament Commission
- The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East
- 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
- Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region
- Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
- Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction
- Revitalizing the work of the Conference on Disarmament and taking forward multilateral disarmament negotiations
- Crime prevention and criminal justice
- International drug control
- Measures to eliminate international terrorism
- Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization
- Report of the Secretary-General on the Peacebuilding Fund
- Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations
- Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs:
- (a) Election of five non-permanent members of the Security Council
- (b) Election of eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council
- Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections:
- (a) Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination
- (b) Election of thirty members of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
- (c) Election of the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme
- (d) Election of two members of the Organizational Committee of the Peacebuilding Commission
- (e) Election of eighteen members of the Human Rights Council
- (f) Election of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other appointments:
- (a) Appointment of members of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions
- (b) Appointment of members of the Committee on Contributions
- (c) Confirmation of the appointment of members of the Investments Committee
- (d) Appointment of a member of the Board of Auditors
- (e) Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences
- (f) Appointment of members of the Joint Inspection Unit
- (g) Appointment of the judges of the United Nations Dispute Tribunal
- (h) Appointment of the judges of the United Nations Appeals Tribunal
- Admission of new Members to the United Nations
- Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit
- The United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy
- Follow-up to the commemoration of the two-hundredth anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade
- Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations
- Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly
- Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters
- Strengthening of the United Nations system
- United Nations reform: measures and proposals
- Interaction between the United Nations, national parliaments and the Inter Parliamentary Union
- Global health and foreign policy
- 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
- 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
- International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
- Investigation into the conditions and circumstances resulting in the tragic death of Dag Hammarskjöld and of the members of the party accompanying him
- Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors:
- (a) United Nations
- (b) United Nations peacekeeping operations
- (c) International Trade Centre
- (d) United Nations University
- (e) Capital master plan
- (f) United Nations Development Programme
- (g) United Nations Capital Development Fund
- (h) United Nations Children’s Fund
- (i) United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
- (j) United Nations Institute for Training and Research
- (k) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- (l) Fund of the United Nations Environment Programme
- (m) United Nations Population Fund
- (n) United Nations Human Settlements Programme
- (o) United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime
- (p) United Nations Office for Project Services
- (q) United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN-Women)
- (r) 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
- (s) 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
- (t) International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
- Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations
- Programme budget for the biennium 2014-2015
- Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2016-2017
- Programme planning
- Improving the financial situation of the United Nations
- Pattern of conferences
- Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations
- Human resources management
- Joint Inspection Unit
- United Nations common system
- Report on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services
- Administration of justice at the United Nations
- 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
- 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
- Financing of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals
- Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of United Nations peacekeeping operations
- Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations
- Financing of the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei
- Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad
- Financing of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic
- Financing of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire
- Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
- Financing of the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Financing of the United Nations Mission in East Timor
- Financing of the United Nations Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste
- Financing of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti
- Financing of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
- Financing of the United Nations Mission in Liberia
- Financing of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali
- Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle East:
- (a) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force
- (b) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
- Financing of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan
- Financing of the United Nations Supervision Mission in the Syrian Arab Republic
- Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
- Financing of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur
- Financing of the activities arising from Security Council resolution 1863 (2009)
- Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country
- Observer status for the Cooperation Council of Turkic-speaking States in the General Assembly
- Observer status for the Eurasian Economic Union in the General Assembly
- Observer status for the Community of Democracies in the General Assembly
A. Promotion of sustained economic growth and sustainable development in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and recent United Nations conferences
B. Maintenance of international peace and security
C. Development of Africa
D. Promotion of human rights
E. Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance efforts
F. Promotion of justice and international law
G. Disarmament
H. Drug control, crime prevention and combating international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations
I. Organizational, administrative and other matters
