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MEETING OF THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 1
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The General Assembly meets this morning to take up the report of
its General Committee (document A/44/250 Corr.1, and Add.1)
concerning the Assembly's agenda and the allocation of items for
consideration by the plenary and the Main Committees.
The 155-item agenda includes eight new items: observer status
for the Council of Europe in the General Assembly; a United
Nations decade of international law; protection and security of
small states; environmental protection of extraterritorial
spaces for present and future generations; education and
information for disarmament; illicit trafficking in narcotic
drugs and other transnational criminal activities and the
establishment of an international criminal court with
jurisdiction over such crimes; Operation Lifeline Sudan; and
African structural adjustment.
The General Committee has recommended that one item on the
provisional agenda -- the question of East Timor -- be deferred
to the Assembly's next regular session.
The report also recommends that the general debate of the current
session be held from 25 September to 13 October 1989.
Recommended for consideration in plenary are new items on
observer status for the Council of Europe, Operation Lifeline
Sudan and African structural adjustment. Other items up for
renewed consideration at the current session include the
situation in the Middle East and the question of Palestine, the
return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of
origin, peace initiatives in Central America, and South Africa's
policies of apartheid. A total of 50 items would be taken up in
plenary, including also the election of five non-permanent
members of the Security Council and 18 members of the Economic
and Social Council.
Further, the report recommends that the First Committee
(Political and Security) should discuss a new item on education
and information for disarmament, as well as the question of
Antarctica, the strengthening of the security of non-nuclear
weapon States, scientific and technological developments and
their impact on international security, and Israeli nuclear
armament among others.
The Special Political Committee would discuss the protection and
security of small States as a new item. Other topics for the
Committee include a review of peace-keeping operations in all
their aspects and questions relating to information.
A new item recommended for the agenda of the Second Committee
(Economic and Financial) is the environmental protection of
extraterritorial spaces for present and future generations. The
Committee will also discuss special economic and disaster relief
assistance and the external debt crisis of developing countries,
among other items relating to development and international
economic co-operation.
The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) is
recommended to discuss various human rights issues, questions of
racial and other discrimination, and the advancement of women
and crime prevention.
Among items recommended for allocation to the Fourth Committee
(Decolonization) is discussion of information from
non-self-governing territories, the United Nations Educational
and Training Programme for Southern Africa and the
implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of
Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) would review
the programme budget for the biennium 1988-1989, the proposed
programme budget for 1990-1991, and the efficiency of the
administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations.
It would also discuss personnel questions and the administrative
and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations
peace-keeping operations, and the report of the Advisory
Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions.
The Sixth Committee (Legal) would have two new items on its
agenda: a United Nations decade of international law; the
illicit trafficking of narcotic drugs and the establishment of
an international criminal court with jurisdiction over such
crimes. It would also discuss measures to prevent international
terrorism and the convening of an international conference to
define terrorism.
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