Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!psuvax1!rutgers!cmcl2!phri!ccnysci!unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org From: unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org (unitex) Newsgroups: misc.headlines.unitex Subject: UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 8 Message-ID: <3196@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 24 Sep 89 13:54:23 GMT Sender: patth@ccnysci.UUCP Lines: 66 Approved: patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 8 Posting Date: 09/24/89 Source: UNITEX Network, Hoboken, NJ, USA Host: (201) 795-0733 ISSN: 1043-7932 Next, the Assembly approved the allocation of the eight items to the Fourth Committee (Decolonization) proposed in paragraph 33 of the report of the General Committee. Item 38, dealing with a review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations, was allocated to the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary), on the understanding that the report on the United Nations intergovernmental structure and functions in the economic and social fields would be considered directly in plenary meeting and that such a decision should in no way prejudge the arrangements to be made for the future consideration of the item. Next, the Assembly decided that item 27, concerning the Joint Inspection Unit (JIU), should be allocated to the Fifth Committee, on the understanding that the reports of the Unit dealing with subject matters assigned to the other Main Committees would be referred also to those Committees. The Assembly then approved the allocation of the 21 items proposed for the Fifth Committee in paragraph 33 of the report of the General Committee. The Assembly decided to allocate to the Sixth Committee (Legal) item 152, entitled: "International criminal responsibility of individuals and entities engaged in illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs across national frontiers and other transnational criminal activities: establishment of an international criminal jourt with jurisdiction over such crimes". It then approved the allocation of the 11 items proposed for the Sixth Committee in paragraph 33 of the report of the General Committee. The Assembly next took up the second report of the General Committee (document A/44/250/Add.1), which concerns the request by Egypt and Guinea-Bissau for the inclusion of an additional item entitled "African Alternative Framework to Structural Adjustment Programmes for Socio-Economic Recovery and Transformation", which appears in document A/44/242. The Assembly decided to include the item in the agenda and that it should be considered directly in plenary meeting. The PRESIDENT said that, with the approval of the additional item, the Assembly had approved the allocation of 50 items for consideration directly in plenary meeting. The PRESIDENT adjourned the meeting at 11:34 a.m. (END OF TAKE 8 AND PRESS RELEASE GA/7837) * Origin: UNITEX --> Toward a United Species (1:107/501) --- Patt Haring | United Nations | FAX: 212-787-1726 patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu | Information | BBS: 201-795-0733 patth@ccnysci.BITNET | Transfer Exchange | (3/12/24/9600 Baud) -=- Every child smiles in the same language. -=-