Items included in the provisional agenda of the fifty-second regular session of the General Assembly

1.Opening of the session by the Chairman of the delegation of Malaysia

2.Minute of silent prayer or meditation

3.Credentials of representatives to the fifty-second session of the General Assembly:

(a)Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee

(b)Report of the Credentials Committee

4.Election of the President of the General Assembly

5.Election of the officers of the Main Committees

6.Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly

7.Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations

8.Adoption of the agenda and organization of work: reports of the General Committee

9.General debate

10.Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization

11.Report of the Security Council

12.Report of the Economic and Social Council

13.Report of the International Court of justice

14.Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency

15.Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs:

(a)Election of five non-permanent members of the Security Council

(b)Election of eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council

16.Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections:

(a)Election of twenty-nine members of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme

(b)Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination

(c)Election of nineteen members of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law

(d)Election of the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme

17.Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other appointments:

(a)Appointment of members of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions

(b)Appointment of members of the Committee on Contributions

(c)Appointment of a member of the Board of Auditors

(d)Confirmation of the appointment of members of the Investments Committee

(e)Appointment of members of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal

(f)Appointment of members of the International Civil Service Commission

(g)Appointment of members and alternate members of the United Nations Staff Pension Committee

(h)Appointment of the members of the Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women

(i)Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences

(j)Appointment of a member of the Joint Inspection Unit

18.Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countrieand Peoples

19.Admission of new Members to the United Nations

20.Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance:

(a)Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations

(b)Special economic assistance to individual countries or regions

(c)Emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy and reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan

(d)Assistance to the Palestinian people

(e)Participation of volunteers, "White Helmets", in activities of the United Nations in the field of humanitarian relief, rehabilitation and technical Cupertino for development

Strengthening of international Cupertino and co-ordination of efforts to study, mitigate and minimise the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster

21.Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly

22.Cooperation between the United Nations and the Agency for Cultural and Technical Cooperation

23.Multilingualism

24.Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal

25.Cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American Economic System

26. University for Peace

27.Return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin

28.Universal Congress on the Panama Canal

29.Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union

30.Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba

31.Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference

32.Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic

33.Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States

34.Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization

35.Elimination of coercive economic measures as a means of political and economic compulsion

36.Question of Palestine

37.The situation in the Middle East

38.Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies

39.Oceans and the law of the sea:

(a)Law of the sea

(b)Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks

(c)Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing, unauthorized fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and fisheries by-catch and discards

40.Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe

41.Assistance in mine clearance

42.Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity

43.The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security

44.The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti

45.The situation in Central America: procedures for the establishment of a firm and lasting peace and progress in fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and development

46.Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development

47.The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

48.Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas)

49.Report of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991

50.Report of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994

51.Declaration of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity on the aerial and naval military attack against the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya by the present United States Administration in April 1986

52.Armed Israeli aggression against the Iraqi nuclear installations and its grave consequences for the established international system concerning the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and international peace and security

53.Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against Kuwait

54.Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations

55.Question of the Comorian island of Mayotte

56.Launching of global negotiations on international economic cooperation for development

57.The situation in Burundi

58.Restructuring and revitalization of the United Nations in the economic, social and related fields

59.Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters

60.Strengthening of the United Nations system

61.Question of Cyprus

62.Compliance with arms limitation and disarmament obligations

63.Verification in all its aspects, including the role of the United Nations in the field of verification

64.Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty

65.Reduction of military budgets:

(a)Reduction of military budgets

(b)Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures

66.The role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament

67.Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East

68.Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in South Asia

69.Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons

70.Prevention of an arms race in outer space

71.General and complete disarmament:

(a)Notification of nuclear tests

(b)Small arms

(c)Transparency in armaments

Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas

(e)Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament: report of the Preparatory Committee for the Fourth Special Session of the General Assembly Devoted to Disarmament

(f)Relationship between disarmament and development

(g)Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control

(h)Measures to curb the illicit transfer and use of conventional arms

(i)Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes

(j)Regional disarmament

(k)Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons

(l) Consolidation of peace through practical disarmament measures

(m)Nuclear disarmament

(n)Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels

(o)Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the

Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction

(p)Non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and of vehicles for their delivery in all its aspects

72.Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly:

(a)United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific

(b)Regional confidence-building measures

(c)Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons

73.Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session:

(a)Report of the Disarmament Commission

(b)Report of the Conference on Disarmament

(c)Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters

United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research

74.The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East

75.Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects

76.Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region

77.Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace

78.Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear, Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco)

79.African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty

80.Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction

81.Maintenance of international security

82.Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening of International Security

83.Rationalization of the work, and reform of the agenda of the First Committee

84.Effects of atomic radiation

85.International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space

86.United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

87.Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Fights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories

88.Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects

89.Questions relating to information

90.Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations

91.Activities of foreign economic and other interests which impede the implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples in Territories under colonial domination

92.Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations

93.Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self Governing Territories

94.Question of the Malagasy islands of Glorieuses, Juan de Nova, Europa and Bassas da India

95.Question of East Timor

96.The situation in the occupied territories of Croatia

97.Macroeconomic policy questions:

(a)Financing of development, including net transfer of resources between developing and developed countries

(b)Trade and development

(c)Science and technology for development

External debt crisis and development

98.Sectoral policy questions:

(a)Industrial development cooperation

(b)Business and development

(c)Food and sustainable agricultural development

99.Sustainable development and international economic cooperation:

(a)Renewal of the dialogue on strengthening international economic cooperation for development through partnership

Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s

(c)Population and development

International migration and development, including the convening of a

United Nations conference on international migration and development

(e)Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II)

(f)First United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty

(g)Women in development

(h)Human resources development

(i)Cultural development

100.Environment and sustainable development:

(a)Implementation of decisions and recommendations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development

(b)Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

(c)Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind

International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction

(e)Convention on Biological Diversity

(f)Implementation of the outcome of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States

(g)Special session for the purpose of an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21

101.Operational activities for development:

(a)Operational activities for development of the United Nations system

(b)Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries

102.Training and research: United Nations Institute for Training and Research

103.Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources

104.Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family

105.Crime prevention and criminal justice

106.International drug control

107.Advancement of women

108.Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women

109.Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions

110.Promotion and protection of the rights of children

111.Programme of activities of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous People

112.Elimination of racism and racial discrimination

113.Right of peoples to self-determination

114.Human rights questions:

(a)Implementation of human rights instruments

(b)Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms

(c)Human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives

Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna

Declaration and Programme of Action

(e)Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

115.Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors:

(a)United Nations Institute for Training and Research-

(b)Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

116.Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations

117.Programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997

118.Proposed programme budget for the biennium 1998-1999

119.Improving the financial situation of the United Nations

120.Joint Inspection Unit

121.Pattern of conferences

122.Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations

123.United Nations common system

124.Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle East:

(a)United Nations Disengagement Observer Force

(b)United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon

125.Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission

126.Financing of the activities arising from Security Council resolution 687 (1991):

(a)United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission

(b)Other activities

127.Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara

128.Financing and liquidation of the United Nations Transitional Authority in Cambodia

129.Financing of the United Nations Protection Force, the United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia, the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force and the United Nations Peace Forces headquarters

130.Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II

131.Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique

132.Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus

133.Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia

134.Financing of the United Nations Mission in Haiti

135.Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia

136.Financing of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda

137.Financing of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991

138.Financing of the United Nations Mission of Observers in Tajikistan

139.Financing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994

140.Financing of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina

141.Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium

142.Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force

143.Financing of the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti

144.Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations:

(a)Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations

(b)Relocation of Ukraine to the group of Member States set out in paragraph 3 (c)of General Assembly resolution 43/232

145.Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services

146.Convention on jurisdictional immunities of States and their property

147.United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law

148.United Nations Decade of International Law:

(a)United Nations Decade of International Law

(b)Action to be taken in 1999 dedicated to the centennial of the first International Peace Conference and to the closing of the United Nations Decade of International Law

149.Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its forty-ninth session

150.Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its thirtieth session

151.Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country

152.Convention on the law of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses

153.Establishment of an international criminal court

154.Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization

155.Measures to eliminate international terrorism

156.Human resources management

157.Financing of the Military Observer Group of the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala

158.Draft guiding principles for international negotiations

159.Amendment to article 14 of the statute of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal

160.Need to review General Assembly resolution 2758 (XXVI) of 25 October 1971 owing to the fundamental change in the international situation and to the coexistence of two Governments across the Taiwan Strait