Authorization for UNRWA & CEIRPP to meet during main part of regular GA session – Opening of GA 60th session – Verbatim record (excerpts)

Official Records

 General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session

1st plenary meeting
Tuesday, 15 September 2009, 3 p.m.
New York

President:  Mr. Ali Abdussalam Treki …………………………………… (Libyan Arab Jamahiriya)

The meeting was called to order at 3.10 p.m.

Item 1 of the provisional agenda

Opening of the session by the President of the General Assembly

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Statement by the President

The President (spoke in Arabic): …

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The situation in the Middle East, which has remained unresolved for over 60 years, is another threat to the international community. Despite the resolutions of the General Assembly and Security Council, peace remains a distant prospect. Through the General Assembly, the United Nations must assume a serious new role. The numerous resolutions of the United Nations must be respected and implemented.

The Palestinian people’s aspirations to independence and its right to return to its land in accordance with United Nations resolutions are two fundamental conditions for the swift realization of peace and security in that sensitive part of the world. There must be an end to settlement activities, which have been condemned by the entire international community. The removal of illegal and illegitimate settlements would help to achieve security and a just peace in accordance with the resolutions with which we must comply.

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Item 7 of the provisional agenda

Organization of work, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items

Letter from the Chairman of the Committee on Conferences addressed to the President of the General Assembly (A/64/348)

The President (spoke in Arabic): Members are aware that, pursuant to section 1, paragraph 7, of resolution 40/243, no subsidiary organ of the General Assembly should be permitted to meet at United Nations Headquarters during the main part of a regular session of the Assembly, unless explicitly authorized by the Assembly.

On the strict understanding that meetings would have to be accommodated within available facilities and services, authorization is thus sought for the following subsidiary organs: the Committee on Relations with the Host Country, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, the Disarmament Commission, the Executive Board of the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, the Executive Board of the United Nations Children’s Fund, the United Nations Dispute Tribunal, and the Working Group on the Financing of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East.

May I take it that it is the wish of the General Assembly to authorize those subsidiary organs of the Assembly to meet during the main part of the sixty-fourth session of the General Assembly?

It was so decided.

The meeting rose at 3.30 p.m.

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