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 3 Message-ID: <3191@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 24 Sep 89 13:49:21 GMT Sender: patth@ccnysci.UUCP Lines: 80 Approved: patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 3 Posting Date: 09/24/89 Source: UNITEX Network, Hoboken, NJ, USA Host: (201) 795-0733 ISSN: 1043-7932 The Assembly further approved the General Committee's recommendation that delegations be reminded of the utmost importance of punctuality. Concerning the rules for the general debate, the Assembly decided that the practice of expressing congratulations in the General Assembly Hall after a speech had been delivered would be prohibited. And it took note of the provisions in the General Committee report regarding explanations of vote, right of reply and length of statements. The Assembly approved the recommendations contained in paragraph 14 of the General Committee's report concerning records of meetings. It went on to take note of provisions in the General Committee's report of questions relating to programme budget questions, in particular with regard to regulations governing Programme Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation and the Methods of Evaluation (annex to General Assembly resolution 37/234). The Assembly then took note of provision relating to special conferences and recommendation 6 of the Committee on Conferences, adopted by the Assembly in paragraph (b) of its decision 34/405 and to recommendations 2 (d) and 4 of the Group of High-level Intergovernmental Experts. The Assembly decided that the following subsidiary organs of the Assembly should be authorized to hold meetings during the forty-fourth session: Advisory Committee on the United Nations Educational and Training Programme for Southern Africa; Committee of Trustees of the United Nations Trust Fund for South Africa; Committee on Relations with the Host Country; Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People; Intergovernmental Group to Monitor the Supply and Shipping of Oil and Petroleum Products to South Africa; Special Committee against Apartheid; United Nations Council for Namibia; Working Group on the Financing of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East The Assembly then took up section III of the report of the General Committee, relating to the adoption of the agenda. The Assembly first decided that item 74 of the draft agenda for the session, (Liability for illegal transfer and/or use of prohibited weapons and weapons of substances which cause unnecessary human suffering), should not be included in the agenda. Next, the Assembly decided that item 122 of the draft agenda, (Question of East Timor), should be deferred to the forty-fifth session and the item included in that session's provisional agenda. The Assembly then decided that item 153 of the draft agenda, entitled "Environmental protection of extraterritorial spaces for present and future generations", be included on the agenda as a sub-item of item 83 of the agenda (Development and international economic co-operation). (END OF TAKE 3) * 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. -=-