AGENDA

Items included in the provisional agenda of the fifty-fifth regular session of the General Assembly*

1. Opening of the session by the Chairman of the delegation of Namibia
2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation
3. Credentials of representatives to the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly:
(a) Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee
(b) Report of the Credentials Committee
4. Election of the President of the General Assembly
5. Election of the officers of the Main Committees
6. Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly
7. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations
8. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work: reports of the General Committee
9. General debate
10. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization
11. Report of the Security Council
12. Report of the Economic and Social Council
13. Report of the International Court of Justice
14. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency
15. 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
16. 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 seventeen members of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law
(c) Election of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
17. 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) Appointment of a member of the Board of Auditors
(d) Confirmation of the appointment of members of the Investments Committee
(e) Appointment of members of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal
(f) Appointment of members and alternate members of the United Nations Staff Pension Committee
(g) Appointment of members of the International Civil Service Commission
(h) Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences
(i) Appointment of the members of the Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women
(j) Confirmation of the appointment of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme
(k) Approval of the appointment of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
18. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
19. Admission of new Members to the United Nations
20. 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) 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 the Organization of American States
22. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee
23. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community
24. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference
25. Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States
26. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union
27. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity
28. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization
29. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
30. Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, including measures and recommendations agreed upon at its mid-term review
31. Elimination of coercive economic measures as a means of political and economic compulsion
32. United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations
33. Culture of peace
34. Oceans and the law of the sea:
(a) Consideration of elements relating to oceans and seas, including improvement of coordination and cooperation
(b) Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing, unauthorized fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and on the high seas, fisheries by-catch and discards, and other developments
35. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba
36. Bethlehem 2000
37. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the special session of the General Assembly in this regard
38. Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic
39. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies
40. The situation in the Middle East
41. Question of Palestine
42. Special session of the General Assembly in 2001 for follow-up to the World Summit for Children
43. 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
44. Global implications of the year 2000 date conversion problem of computers
45. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina
46. The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security
47. Assistance in mine action
48. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti
49. The situation in East Timor during its transition to independence
50. Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa
51. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)
52. 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
53. 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
54. 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
55. 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
56. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against Kuwait
57. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations
58. Launching of global negotiations on international economic cooperation for development
59. Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte
60. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters 61. United Nations reform: measures and proposals:
(a) United Nations reform: measures and proposals
(b) The Millennium Assembly of the United Nations
62. Strengthening of the United Nations system
63. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly
64. Restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the economic, social and related fields
65. Question of Cyprus
66. Reduction of military budgets
67. Development of good-neighbourly relations among Balkan States
68. Maintenance of international security:
(a) Prevention of the violent disintegration of States
(b) Stability and development of South-Eastern Europe
69. Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of interna- tional security
70. Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament
71. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East
72. Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons
73. Prevention of an arms race in outer space
74. General and complete disarmament:
(a) Notification of nuclear tests
(b) Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central Asia (
c) Mongolia's international security and nuclear-weapon-free status
(d) Measures to uphold the authority of the 1925 Geneva Protocol
(e) Preservation of and compliance with the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems
(f) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction
(g) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction
(h) Missiles
(i) Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: the need for a new agenda
(j) Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament measures
(k) Transparency in armaments
(l) Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and collecting them
(m) Reducing nuclear danger
(n) Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas
(o) Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels
(p) Regional disarmament
(q) Nuclear disarmament
(r) Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons
(s) Illicit traffic in small arms
(t) Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control
(u) Relationship between disarmament and development
(v) Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament
(w) Small arms
75. Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly:
(a) Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa
(b) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa
(c) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific
(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, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean
(g) United Nations Disarmament Information Programme
(h) United Nations disarmament fellowship, training and advisory services
76. Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session:
(a) Report of the Disarmament Commission
(b) Report of the Conference on Disarmament
(c) Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters
(d) United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research
(e) Disarmament Week
77. The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East
78. 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
79. Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region
80. Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)
81. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacterio- logical (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction
82. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
83. Effects of atomic radiation
84. International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space
85. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
86. Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories
87. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects
88. Questions relating to information
89. Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations
90. Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories
91. 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
92. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories
93. Question of the Malagasy islands of Glorieuses, Juan de Nova, Europa and Bassas da India
94. Macroeconomic policy questions:
(a) Trade and development
(b) Commodities
(c) External debt crisis and development (
d) Science and technology for development
(e) Financing of development, including net transfer of resources between developing and developed countries
95. Sectoral policy questions:
(a) Industrial development cooperation
(b) Business and development
96. Sustainable development and international economic cooperation:
(a) Implementation of the commitments and policies agreed upon in 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) Cultural development
(d) High-level dialogue on strengthening international economic cooperation for development through partnership
(e) Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II)
97. Environment and sustainable development:
(a) Implementation of Agenda 21 and the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21
(b) Convention on Biological Diversity
(c) Water supply and sanitation
(d) Further implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States
(e) Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa
(f) Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy, including the implementation of the World Solar Programme 1996-2005
(g) Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind
98. Operational activities for development
99. Training and research
100. 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
101. Implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006)
102. Globalization and interdependence
103. High-level international intergovernmental consideration of financing for development
104. Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries
105. Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family
106. Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons
107. Crime prevention and criminal justice
108. International drug control
109. Advancement of women 110. Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women and of the special session of the General Assembly entitled "Women 2000: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century"
111. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions
112. Promotion and protection of the rights of children
113. Programme of activities of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People
114. Elimination of racism and racial discrimination
115. Right of peoples to self-determination
116. Human rights questions:
(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
117. Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors:
(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
118. Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations
119. Programme budget for the biennium 2000-2001
120. Programme planning
121. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations
122. Administrative and budgetary coordination of the United Nations with the specialized agencies and the International Atomic Energy Agency
123. Pattern of conferences
124. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations
125. Human resources management
126. United Nations common system
127. United Nations pension system
128. Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services
129. 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
130. 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
131. Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola
132. Financing of the activities arising from Security Council resolution 687 (1991)
(a) United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Missionv
(b) Other activities
133. Financing of the United Nations Mission in East Timor
134. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone
135. Financing of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo
136. Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor
137. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara
138. Financing of the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan
139. Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force
140. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle East:
(a) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force
(b) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon
141. Financing and liquidation of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia
142. 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
143. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II
144. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique
145. Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
146. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia
147. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Haiti
148. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia
149. Financing of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda
150. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina
151. Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium and the Civilian Police Support Group
152. 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
153. Financing of the Military Observer Group of the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala
154. Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic
155. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations:
(a) Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations
(b) Relocation of South Africa to the group of Member States set out in para- graph 3 c of General Assembly resolution 43/232
156. Progressive development of the principles and norms of international law relating to the new international economic order
157. Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts
158. Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives
159. Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property
160. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its thirty-third session
161. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its fifty-second session
162. Nationality of natural persons in relation to the succession of States
163. Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country
164. Establishment of the International Criminal Court
165. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strength-ening of the Role of the Organization
166. Measures to eliminate international terrorism
167. Review of the Statute of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal
168. Election of judges 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
169. Financing of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
170. Programme budget for the biennium 1998-1999
171. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of United Nations peacekeeping operations