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 7 Message-ID: <3195@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 24 Sep 89 13:52:49 GMT Sender: patth@ccnysci.UUCP Lines: 59 Approved: patth@sci.ccny.cuny.edu UN ASSEMBLY PLENARY -- TAKE 7 Posting Date: 09/24/89 Source: UNITEX Network, Hoboken, NJ, USA Host: (201) 795-0733 ISSN: 1043-7932 The Assembly then decided to allocate item 150, on the protection and security of small States, to the Special Political Committee and approved the allocation of the 10 items proposed for the Special Political Committee in paragraph 33 of the report of the General Committee. Turning to the list of items recommended for the Second Committee (Economic and Financial), the Assembly then decided that in connection with the question of trade and development, a plenary meeting should be held to observe the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). On the question of environment, the Assembly agreed that the debate on the proposed 1992 United Nations conference on environment and development should be held directly in plenary meeting, on the understanding that action on that aspect of the sub-item would be taken by the Second Committee. A sub-item dealing with environmental protection of extraterritorial spaces for present and future generations was allocated to the Second Committee. The Assembly then approved the allocation of the 10 items proposed for the Second Committee in paragraph 32 of the report of the General Committee. Taking up the allocation of items to the Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural), the Assembly decided that an observance of the twentieth anniversary of the proclamation of the Declaration on Social Progress and Development should be held at a plenary meeting on Monday, 11 December. The report of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on the operations, management and budget of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) was referred to the Second Committee for consideration under item 86 on operational activities for development. The Assembly then approved the allocation of 28 items proposed for the Third Committee in paragraph 33 of the report of the General Committee. (END OF TAKE 7) * 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. -=-