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Date: 24 Sep 89 13:10:08 GMT
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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.

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