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GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES 155-ITEM AGENDA FOR CURRENT SESSION
Posting Date: 09/24/89 Source: UNITEX Network, Hoboken, NJ, USA
Host: (201) 795-0733 ISSN: 1043-7932
New Items Include Alternative Framework for African Structural
Adjustment, Action Against Illicit Drug Traffic, Aid to Sudan
The General Assembly this morning decided to include 155 items in
the agenda of its forty-fourth session, 50 of which will be
discussed directly in plenary, including new items on Operation
Lifeline Sudan, observer status for the Council of Europe, a
United Nations decade of international law and an alternative
framework for African structural adjustment.
Other new items to be considered at this annual session of the
Assembly concern: illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and the
establishment of an international criminal court with
jurisdiction over such crimes, allocated to the Sixth Committee
(Legal); environmental protection of extraterritorial spaces,
allocated to the Second Committee (Economic and Financial);
education and information for disarmament, allocated to the
First Committee (Political and Security); and protection and
security of small States, allocated to the Special Political
Committee.
On the question of Namibia, the Assembly took note of the
statement by the Secretary-General which recalls that the United
Nations independence plan for Namibia includes informal
understandings on the question of impartiality, one of which
indicates that consideration of the question of Namibia at the
regular General Assembly should be suspended during the
transition period. The Assembly took note of the statement with
the understanding that hearings of the organizations concerned
would be held in the Fourth Committee (Decolonization). The
Assembly also took note of all statements on the question made
during the meeting of the General Committee.
The Assembly further decided this morning that a plenary meeting
would be held to observe the twenty-fifth anniversary of the
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. In
addition, a commemorative plenary meeting will be held on
Thursday, 26 October, to observe the tenth anniversary of the
adoption of the Vienna Programme of Action on Science and
Technology for Development. The twentieth anniversary of the
Declaration on Social Progress and Development is to be observed
at a plenary meeting on Monday, 11 December.
At the start of today's meeting, condolences were expressed by
the President of the Assembly and the Secretary-General on the
death of Giovanni Migliuolo, Permanent Representative of Italy.
Expressions of sympathy were also offered by representatives of
the regional groups and the host country. Mario Scialoja,
Deputy Permanent Representative of Italy, spoke in response.
At 10 a.m. on Monday, 25 September, the Assembly is scheduled to
hear addresses by the Presidents of Brazil and the United
States. It will then begin a three-week general debate, hearing
statements by Austria, Poland and Peru.
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