A/44/PV.95 General Assembly

On behalf of the Assembly, I thank the Secretary-GeneraJ. for taking the time personally to introduce this important report. It will, I am sure, :eceive prompt, careful and detailed i:onsideration. We also note with appreciation his offer to keep th~ Assembly informed of any major developnents on this imp:)rtant situation. Pursuant to the corumltations I have held with the Chairmm of the Special Cc.ittee against Apartheid and representatives of the national liberation IIOINUaents, I should like m pcopose that, in order to all<M ti. for: delegations to study the report of the Secretary-General &Dd to carry out the necessary consultations, the Assemly reconvene at a late!:' date to consider his report. The dates proposed for substanthe discussion of the report are 12 to 14 septellbEil' 1990, in the week before the opening of the forty-fi fth session of the General Assembly. May I take it that the Assedtly agrees to resume the session on those datee? I t was so decided" AQ!:NDA rl'EM 8 (continued) ADOPTION OP' THB AGBR>A All) ORG1lNIZATION OF WORK: LBT'Dm!'R<II THE BAHAMAS, COLOMBIA MD HAITI (A/U/965 and Corr.l and Add.!) The PRBSIDBNT: Doou1l8nt A/44/965 contains a request addressed to me by the representatives of the Bahamas, ColOlllbia and Baiti to reopen agenda item 114, entitled -Bnhancing the effectiveness of the principle of periodic and genuine elections-, in order to consider -technical assistance for the Haitian electoral proeess in the context of huJUn rights-. It wUl accordingly be necessary to seek the approval of the Assembly to reopen agenda item 114. May I take it that the General Asselllbly has no objection to reopening agenda ltea 114 and to considering it directly in plenary? It was 80 de~ided. The PRESIDERT, rallCllling consultations with the representatives of the Babs.u, ColOllbia and Baiti, I should like to pcopose that the item be> taken up at a later date, to be lI\nounced in the Journal. TENTATI'IIE PROGRAMME OF WO~K

Before adjourning the meeting, I should like to inform members of the tentative programme of worl( of the Assenbly at its forty-fourth session with regard to agenda itam 36, entitled "Question of Namibia". It had been hoped that it would be possible to complete the necessary steps to consider that item on 23 July. It has nOlii been suggested th"lt the item be taken up at 10 er 11 September, immediatel? before consideration of agenda item 28, "Policies of aputhei!! of the Government of South Afr lea". That would also be advantageous to the mem::>ers of the A.dvisory Committee for Administrative and Budgetary Questions, who are absent from Headquart~rs at this time of the year. \flen the CommittePis not in session, material h.:t;; to be circl.1:lated by mail and the programme budget implications considered through correspondence. For th~ information of delegations, the report an~ the draft resolutions submitteti by the lJnit".d Nations Council for Namibirl ~(e contained in <bcument A/44/24 and Add.l. The meeting rose at lO.~5 a.m.