A/46/PV.45 General Assembly

In connection with this item, I should like to call the attention of the Assembly to document A/46/596 containing a joint statement issued in London and Buenos Aires on 25 September 1991 by the Governments of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Argentine Republic. Furthermore, and taking into account General Assembly decision 451424 of 12 December 1990, I should like to inform representatives that, following consultations regarding agenda item 39 on the question of th Falkland Islands (Malvinasl, it is proposed that the General Assembly decide to postpone ccnsideration of this item and to include it in the provisional agenda of its forty-seventh session. May I take it, therefore, that the Assembly. taking into account its decision 451424, wishes to take note of document A/16/596, already referred to. and that it is also the wish of the Assembly to defer consideration of this item and to includa it in the provisional agenda of the forty-seventh session? ahe PRESIDE)rl (interpretation from Arabic): We have thus concludcri consideration of agenda item 39.

Consultations for identifying candidates for appointment as members of the Committee are still in progress. Accordingly, I hereby renew my appeal to the regional groups to continue to extend their cooperation to me in this regard. We have concluded thie stage of our considerstion of agsnda item 18 (h). We turn now ta nub-item (11 of agenda item II, entitled “Appointment of member8 of the Conunlttee on Conferences”. A8 indicated in document A/46/109, the Ctenersl Assembly, by its resolution 431222 B of 21 December 1988, decided that the Cormnittee on Conferences should be composed of 21 members to be appointed by the President of the Assembly, sfter consultations with the chairmen of the rbgional groupa, for a period of three years, on the basis of qeoqraphical distribution. The Assembly further decided that each year one third of the Committee’s membership should retire and that retiring members would be eligible for reappointment. Since the terms of office of Ghana, Honduras, Hungary, Indonesia, Jamaica, Mozambique and the United Kinqdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland expire on 31 December 1991, it is necessary for the President of the General Assembly to appoint, during the current aeonion, seven members to fil the resulting vacancies. The members so appointed will serve for a period of three years beqinninq on 1 January 1992. After consultations with the chairmen of the groups of Asian States, Eastern European States, Latin American and Caribbean States and Western European and Other States, I have appointed Honduras, Hungary, the Islamic Republic of Iran, Jamaica and Turkey to be members of the Committee on Conferences, with effect from 1 January 1992. May I take it that the Assembly takes note of these appointments? It was 80 deciti.

Regarding the remaining two vacancies tv be filled frorn the African States, I intend to hold further consultations with the chairman of the group in this respect. Therefore I propose that the Assembly should keep this sub-item on the agenda of the forty-sixth session. If I hear no objection. I shall take it that the Assembly agrees to that procedure. It was so decided.

We have concluded this stage of our consideration of agenda item 18 (i). The meet&a rose at 11.20 a.m. (The President)