United Nations - Fifty-third

A/C.6/53/L.1

Date for concluding the work of the Committee, order and approximate dates of consideration of items

4. Rule 99 (b) of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly provides that:

"Each Main Committee, taking into account the closing date for the session fixed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the General Committee, shall adopt its own priorities and meet as may be necessary to complete the consideration of the items referred to it. It shall at the beginning of the session adopt a programme of work indicating, if possible, a target date for the conclusion of its work, the approximate dates of consideration of items and the number of meetings to be allocated to each item."

5. Bearing in mind the allocation of the number of meetings available to the Sixth Committee, indicated in paragraph 11 below, it is proposed that the Committee

set a target date of 19 November for the conclusion of its work.

6. The Sixth Committee may wish to consider, for the purpose of adopting its programme of work, the following timetable, drawn up on the basis of the relevant General Assembly resolutions as well as previous programmes of work adopted by the Committee, which indicates approximate dates of consideration of agenda items referred to it:

Approximate dates of consideration

1.Measures to eliminate international terrorism [155]

(Working Group) 28 September-9 October 1998

2.Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its thirty-first session [151] 12-13 October

3.United Nations Decade of International Law [149] 14-15 October

4.Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization [154] 16-20 October

5.Establishment of an international criminal court [153] 21-22 October

6.Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its fiftieth session [150] 26 October-6 November

7.Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property[148] 9-10 November

8.Review of the Statute of the United Nations

Administrative Tribunal[156] 10 November

9.Measures to eliminate international terrorism [155]

11-12 November

10.Status of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and relating to the protection of victims of armed conflicts [146] 13 November

11.Consideration of effective measures to enhance the protection, security and safety of diplomatic and consular missions and representatives [147] 16 November

12.United Nations Decade of International Law [149]

16-17 November

13.Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country [152] 17 November

14.Reserve 18-19 November