Consolidated allocation of agenda items for the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly*
Adopted by the General Assembly at its 19th, 24th, 31st, 68th, 80th, 82nd, 91st and 94th plenary meetings, on 20 September, 7 and 16 October and 6 December 2002 and on 29 January, 11 April, 23 June and 15 September 2003
Plenary meetings
1. Opening of the session by the President of the General Assembly (item 1).
2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation (item 2).
3. Credentials of representatives to the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly (item 3):
(a) Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee;
(b) Report of the Credentials Committee.
4. Election of the President of the General Assembly (item 4).
5. Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly (item 6).
6. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations (item 7).
7. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work: reports of the General Committee (item 8).
8. General debate (item 9).
9. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization (item 10).
10. Report of the Security Council (item 11).
11. Report of the Economic and Social Council (item 12). 2
12. Report of the International Court of Justice (item 13).
13. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency (item 14). 3
14. Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs (item 15):
(a) Election of five non-permanent members of the Security Council;
(b) Election of eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council;
(c) Election of five members of the International Court of Justice.
15. Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections: election of twenty members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination (item 16).
16. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other appointments (item 17):4
(a) Appointment of members of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions; 5
(f) Appointment of a member of the Joint Inspection Unit;
(g) Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences;
(h) Confirmation of the appointment of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development;
(i) Confirmation of the appointment of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme;
(j) Appointment of a member of the United Nations Staff Pension Committee. 6
17. Election of judges 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 (item 18).
18. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (item 19). 7
19. Admission of new Members to the United Nations (item 20).
20. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance (item 21):
(a) Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations;
(b) Special economic assistance to individual countries or regions;
(c) Assistance to the Palestinian people;
(d) Emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy and reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan.
21. Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations (item 22):8
(a) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization;
(b) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization;
(c) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community;
(d) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe;
(e) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Community of Central African States;
(f) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization;
(g) Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization of la Francophonie;
(h) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union; 9
(i) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American Economic System;
(j) Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States;
(k) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons;
(l) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe;
(m) Cooperation between the United Nations and the African Union;
(n) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of American States;
(o) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference;
(p) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Pacific Islands Forum;
(q) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization;
(r) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Southern African Development Community;
(s) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Association of South-East Asian Nations.10
22. United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage (item 23). 11
23. Culture of peace (item 24).
24. Oceans and the law of the sea (item 25): 12
(a) Oceans and the law of the sea;
(b) Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing, unauthorized fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and on the high seas/illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, fisheries by-catch and discards, and other developments;
(c) 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.
25. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba (item 26).
26. The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict (item 27).
27. Assistance in mine action (item 28).
28. 2001-2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, particularly in Africa (item 29).
29. The role of the United Nations in promoting a new global human order (item 30).
30. Elimination of unilateral extraterritorial coercive economic measures as a means of political and economic compulsion (item 31).
31. Information and communication technologies for development (item 32).
32. Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa (item 33).
33. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina (item 34).
34. Question of Palestine (item 35).
35. The situation in the Middle East (item 36).
36. The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security (item 37).
37. The situation in Central America: procedures for the establishment of a firm and lasting peace and progress in fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and development (item 38).
38. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (item 39). 13
39. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters (item 40).
40. Final review and appraisal of the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s (item 41): 14
(a) Final review and appraisal of the implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s;
(b) Implementation of the programme for the Second Industrial Development Decade for Africa.
41. Follow-up to the outcome of the twenty-sixth special session: implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS (item 42).
42. Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit (item 44).
43. 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 (item 45).
44. 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 (item 46).
45. 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 (item 47).
46. 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 (item 48).
47. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against Kuwait (item 49).
48. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations (item 50).
49. Launching of global negotiations on international economic cooperation for development (item 51).
50. Strengthening of the United Nations system (item 52).
51. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly (item 53).
52. Armed aggression against the Democratic Republic of the Congo (item 55).
53. Peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula (item 56).
54. Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family (item 98). 15
55. South American Zone of Peace and Cooperation (item 167). 16
56. International Year of Rice, 2004 (item 168). 17
57. Global road safety crisis (item 169). 18
58. Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social fields (item 92). 19
59. General and complete disarmament (item 66):
60. Sustainable development and international economic cooperation (item 86):
First Committee
1. Reduction of military budgets (item 57).
2. Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament (item 58).
3. Question of Antarctica (item 59).
4. Maintenance of international security — good-neighbourliness, stability and development in South-Eastern Europe (item 60).
5. Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security (item 61).
6. Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament (item 62).
7. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East (item 63).
8. Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons (item 64).
9. Prevention of an arms race in outer space (item 65).
10. General and complete disarmament (item 66):2
(a) Notification of nuclear tests;
(b) Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: the need for a new agenda;
(c) United Nations study on disarmament and non-proliferation education;
(d) Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva Protocol;
(e) Mongolia’s international security and nuclear-weapon-free status;
(f) Preservation of and compliance with the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems;
(g) Missiles;
(h) Reducing nuclear danger;
(i) Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament;19
(j) Relationship between disarmament and development;
(k) Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control;
(l) Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas;
(m) Regional disarmament;
(n) Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels;
(o) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction;
(p) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction;
(q) Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament measures;
(r) Transparency in armaments;
(s) Nuclear disarmament;
(t) Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons;
(u) Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and collecting them;
(v) The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects;
(w) Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central Asia;
(x) United Nations conference to identify ways of eliminating nuclear dangers in the context of nuclear disarmament.
11. Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly (item 67):
(a) United Nations Disarmament Information Programme;
(b) United Nations disarmament fellowship, training and advisory services;
(c) Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa;
(d) Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons;
(e) United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament;
(f) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa;
(g) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean;
(h) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific.
12. Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session (item 68):
(a) Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters;
(b) United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research;
(c) Report of the Disarmament Commission;
(d) Report of the Conference on Disarmament.
13. The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East (item 69).
14. 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 (item 70).
15. Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region (item 71).
16. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction (item 72).
17. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (item 73).
18. Election of the officers of the Main Committees (item 5). 22
Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee)
1. Effects of atomic radiation (item 74).
2. International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space (item 75).
3. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (item 76).
4. Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories (item 77).
5. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects (item 78).
6. Questions relating to information (item 79).
7. Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article
73 e of the Charter of the United Nations (item 80).
8. Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories (item 81).
9. 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 (item 82).
10. Report of the Economic and Social Council (chapter VII, section D) (item 12). 23
11. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories (item 83).
12. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples (item 19).6
13. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (item 39).12
14. Election of the officers of the Main Committees (item 5).21
Second Committee
1. Macroeconomic policy questions (item 84):
(a) International trade and development;
(b) Commodities;
(c) Science and technology for development;
(d) External debt crisis and development;
(e) International financial system and development;
(f) Preparations for the International Ministerial Meeting on Transit Transport Cooperation.
2. Sectoral policy questions (item 85):
(a) Industrial development cooperation;
(b) Business and development;
(c) Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of funds of illicit origin and returning such funds to the countries of origin.
3. Sustainable development and international economic cooperation (item 86):
(a) Implementation of the Declaration on International Economic Cooperation, in particular the Revitalization of Economic Growth and Development of the Developing Countries, and implementation of the International Development Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development Decade;
(b) Integration of the economies in transition into the world economy;
(c) Culture and development;
(d) High-level dialogue on strengthening international economic cooperation for development through partnership.20
4. Environment and sustainable development (item 87):
(a) Implementation of Agenda 21 and the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21;
(b) International Strategy for Disaster Reduction;
(c) Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind;
(d) Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa;
(e) Convention on Biological Diversity;
(f) Further implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States.
5. Operational activities for development (item 88). 24
6. Implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006) (item 89).
7. Training and research (item 90):
(a) United Nations University;
(b) United Nations Institute for Training and Research.
8. Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources (item 91).
9. Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic and social fields (item 92).18
10. High-level international intergovernmental consideration of financing for development (item 93).
11. Globalization and interdependence (item 94).
12. Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and of the twenty-fifth special session of the General Assembly (item 95).
13. Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries (item 96).
14. Follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children (item 43). 25
15. Report of the Economic and Social Council (chapters I to V, chapter VII, sections A to H, and chapter IX) (item 12). 26
16. Election of the officers of the Main Committees (item 5).21
Third Committee
1. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly (item 97).
2. Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family (item 98).14
3. Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Ageing (item 99).
4. Crime prevention and criminal justice (item 100).
5. International drug control (item 101).
6. Advancement of women (item 102).23
7. Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women and of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century” (item 103).
8. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions (item 104).
9. Promotion and protection of the rights of children (item 105).
10. Programme of activities of the International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People (item 106).
11. Elimination of racism and racial discrimination (item 107):
(a) Elimination of racism and racial discrimination;
(b) Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action.
12. Right of peoples to self-determination (item 108).
13. Human rights questions (item 109):
(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;
(e) Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
14. Follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children (item 43). 27
15. Report of the Economic and Social Council (chapters I, III and V, chapter VII, sections A to C and I, and chapter IX) (item 12). 28
16. Election of the officers of the Main Committees (item 5).21
Fifth Committee
1. Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors (item 110):
(a) United Nations;
(b) United Nations Development Programme;
(c) United Nations Children’s Fund;
(d) United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East;
(e) United Nations Institute for Training and Research;
(f) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;
(g) Fund of the United Nations Environment Programme;
(h) United Nations Population Fund;
(i) United Nations Habitat and Human Settlements Foundation;
(j) Fund of the United Nations International Drug Control Programme;
(k) United Nations Office for Project Services;
(l) 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;
(m) 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.
2. Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations (item 111).
3. Programme budget for the biennium 2002-2003 (item 112).
4. Programme planning (item 113).
5. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations (item 114).
6. Administrative and budgetary coordination of the United Nations with the specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency (item 115).
7. Pattern of conferences (item 116).
8. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations (item 117).
9. Human resources management (item 118).
10. Joint Inspection Unit (item 119).
11. United Nations common system (item 120).
12. United Nations pension system (item 121).
13. Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services (item 122).
14. Administration of justice at the United Nations (item 123).
15. 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 (item 124).
16. 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 (item 125).
17. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations (item 126).
18. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle East (item 127):
(a) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force;
(b) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon.
19. Financing of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (item 128).
20. Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor and the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (item 129).
21. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (item 130).
22. Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola (item 131).
23. Financing of the activities arising from Security Council resolution 687 (1991) (item 132):
(a) United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission;
(b) Other activities.
24. Financing of the United Nations Mission in East Timor (item 133).
25. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (item 134).
26. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (item 135).
27. Financing of the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan (item 136). 29
28. Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force (item 137).28
29. Financing and liquidation of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia (item 138).28
30. Financing of the United Nations Protection Force, the United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia, the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force and the United Nations Peace Forces headquarters (item 139).28
31. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II (item 140).28
32. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique (item 141).28
33. Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (item 142).
34. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (item 143).
35. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Haiti (item 144).28
36. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia (item 145).28
37. Financing of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (item 146). 28
38. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (item 147).
39. Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium and the Civilian Police Support Group (item 148).28
40. Financing of the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti, the United Nations Transition Mission in Haiti and the United Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti (item 149).28
41. Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic (item 150).28
42. Financing of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (item 151).
43. Report of the Economic and Social Council (chapter I, chapter VII, sections B and C, and chapter IX) (item 12). 30
44. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other appointments (item 17): 31
(a) Appointment of members of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;4
(b) Appointment of members of the Committee on Contributions;
(c) Confirmation of the appointment of members of the Investments Committee;
(d) Appointment of members of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal;
(e) International Civil Service Commission:
(i) Appointment of members of the Commission;
(ii) Designation of the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman of the Commission;
(j) Appointment of a member of the United Nations Staff Pension Committee.5
45. Election of the officers of the Main Committees (item 5).21
Sixth Committee
1. Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts (item 152).
2. Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives (item 153).
3. Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property (item 154).
4. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its thirty-fifth session (item 155).
5. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its fifty-fourth session (item 156).
6. Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country (item 157).
7. Establishment of the International Criminal Court (item 158).
8. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization (item 159).
9. Measures to eliminate international terrorism (item 160).
10. Scope of legal protection under the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel (item 161).
11. International convention against the reproductive cloning of human beings (item 162).
12. Observer status for the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance in the General Assembly (item 163).
13. Observer status for Partners in Population and Development in the General Assembly (item 164).
14. Observer status for the Asian Development Bank in the General Assembly (item 165).
15. Observer status for the International Centre for Migration Policy Development in the General Assembly (item 166).
16. Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations (item 22):
(h) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union. 8
17. Election of the officers of the Main Committees (item 5).21
Notes
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Document Type: List
Document Sources: General Assembly
Subject: Assistance, Palestine question
Publication Date: 06/10/2003