The General Assembly will now consider the reports of the Fifth Committee on agenda items 116 and 159, 116 and 138 (a).
If there is no proposal under rule 66 of the rules of procedure, I shall take it that the General Assembly decides not to discuss the reports of the Fifth Committee that are befor…
In a letter contained in document A/50/888/Add.2., the Secretary-General informs the President of the General Assembly that, since the issuance of his communications dated 28 February and 6 March 1996, Afghanistan, Haiti and Uzbekistan have made the necessary payments to reduce their arrears below t…
I wish to thank you, Sir, for being present and to welcome you to the United Nations on behalf of the General Assembly, which has the privilege of hearing for the first time the President of the Italian Republic.
Two thousand years ago, in Rome, Seneca said:
“Nature produced brothers in generating…
I now call on the Permanent Representative of the United States, who wishes to speak a second time in exercise of the right of reply. The intervention is limited to five minutes.
I shall now call on those representatives who wish to speak in exercise of the right of reply.
May I remind members that statements made in exercise of the right of reply are limited to 10 minutes for the first intervention and to five minutes for the second
Members will recall that, at its 3rd plenary meeting, on 22 September 1995, the Assembly allocated this agenda item to the Sixth Committee. However, in view of the circumstances, may I take it that the General Assembly wishes to consider agenda item 140 directly in plenary meeting?
Now I should like to draw the attention of the General Assembly to document A/50/883/Rev.1, which contains a letter dated 29 February 1996 from the Permanent Representative of Cuba addressed to the President of the General Assembly.
In his letter, the Permanent Representative of Cuba requests the r…
I should like to draw the General Assembly’s attention to document A/50/888/Add.1.
In a letter contained in that document, the Secretary- General informs the President of the General Assembly that, since the issuance of his communications dated 28 February 1995, Guinea-Bissau, Saint Vincent and the…
I should like to clarify for members that on Thursday, 21 December, in the afternoon, the Assembly will take up the reports of the Third Committee which have been issued, namely, the reports on agenda item 103 on the elimination of racism and racial discrimination, on agenda item 104 on the right of…
We have heard the last speaker in the debate on agenda item 20 (b) as it relates to Burundi and on agenda item 26.
I should like to inform members that action on draft resolutions A/50/L.58 and A/50/L.59 will be taken at a later date this week to be announced.
Programme of work
The Assembly will now take a decision on the draft resolution recommended by the Fifth Committee in paragraph 5 of Part III of its report (A/50/705/Add.2).
The draft resolution was adopted by the Fifth Committee without a vote. May I take it that the Assembly wishes to do the same?
