Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!philmtl!philabs!ccnysci!unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org From: unitex@rubbs.fidonet.org (unitex) Newsgroups: misc.headlines.unitex Subject: UN WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS Message-ID: <3163@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 24 Sep 89 13:10:08 GMT Sender: patth@ccnysci.UUCP Lines: 50 Approved: patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu UN WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS Posting Date: 09/24/89 Source: UNITEX Network, Hoboken, NJ, USA Host: (201) 795-0733 ISSN: 1043-7932 GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES AGENDA OF 155 ITEMS FOR FORTY-FOURTH SESSION The General Assembly today approved the recommendation of its General Committee that it consider 155 items on the agenda of its forty-fourth session The 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. The Assembly will also consider such new items as observer status for the Council of Europe in the General Assembly, a United Nations decade of international law, illicit trafficking in narcotic drugs and transnational criminal activities, the establishment of an international criminal court with jurisdiction over such crimes, and an alternative framework for African structural adjustment. The Assembly, on the question of Namibia, took note of Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar's statement 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 at the regular session be suspended during the Territory's transition to independence. The Assembly also approved the allocation of items among its seven Main Committees, deciding, for example, that the Special Political Committee would discuss the protection and security of small States as a new item, and its Economic Committee would discuss special economic and disaster relief assistance as well as the external debt crisis of developing countries. * 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. -=-