A/43/PV.90 General Assembly

Regatding the decision just acbpted by the Assembly, the President has requested that I convey his appreciation for the confidence and trust the Assembly has placed in him by inviting him to participate actively in the preparations for the special session. I am informed that the President intends to commence the appropriate consultations on the basis of this decision in the near fu ture. * Subsequently, the delegation of Qnan advised the Secretariat that it had intended to vote in favour. As a result of the adoption of this decis ion, an intergovernmeiltal prepara tory Committee of the Whole has been established to make the necessary preparations for the special session. As indicated in paragraph 9 of the annex to the decision, the Preparatory Committee is to hold an organizational session early this month to elect its Bureau. The time and place of that session will be announced in the Journal. We shall now take up draft decis ion lI. (The President) Also in paragraph 16 of part X of its repo.:t (A/43/915 Md.9) I the Second Comi ttee reCOlllllends to the General As~embly the adoption of draft decis ion U, which concerns the biennial programme of work for the second Committee for 1989-1990. The Second Committee appr~ved the draft programme of work for the Second Committee for 1989-1990. May I take it that the Assembly wishes to do the same? Draft decision 11 was adopted~ The PREE ID ENT I The Assenbly has (:hue mncluded its consideration of agenda item 82. PRO~AMME OF WORK

I should like to inform menbers that, barring unforeseen developments, the General Assembly will hold a plenary meeting an 18 April 1989 in order to take up agenda item 15 (c), enti tled "Election of a merrber of the International Court of Justice". The meetin9-!0seat 11.30 a.m.