A/48/720 GA
48
Session
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Vote Consensus — A/48/PV.86
Speeches following this vote (20)
The President
May I take it that it is the wish of the Assembly to conclude its consideration of agenda item 95?
The President
The Assembly will now consider the report (A/48/722) of the Second Committee on agenda item 96, "International Conference on Population and Development".
The Assembly will now take a decision on the draft resolution recommended by the Second Committee in paragraph 10 of its report and the draft decision recommended by the Second Committee in paragraph 11 of the same document.
The Assembly will …
The President
The Assembly will now take a decision on the draft decision contained in paragraph 11 of the report.
The draft decision is entitled "Report of the Preparatory Committee for the International Conference on Population and Development". May I take it that the Assembly wishes to adopt the draft decision?
The President
The Assembly will now consider the report (A/48/723) of the Second Committee on agenda item 97, "International conference on the financing of development".
The Assembly will now take a decision on the draft resolution recommended by the Second Committee in paragraph 9 of its report.
The draft resolution was adopted by the Second Committee without a vote. May I consider that Assembly wishes to d…
The President
May I take it that it is the wish of the Assembly to conclude its consideration of agenda item 97?
The President
The Assembly will now consider the report (A/48/724) of the Second Committee on agenda item 98, entitled "International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction".
The Assembly will now take a decision on the draft resolution recommended by the Committee in paragraph 10 of its report. The report of the Fifth Committee on the programme budget implications of the draft resolution is contained in docum…
The President
May I also take it that it is the wish of the Assembly to conclude its consideration of agenda item 98?
The President
The Assembly will now take up the report (A/48/725) of the Second Committee on agenda item 99, entitled "Implementation of decisions and recommendations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development".
The Assembly will first take a decision on the six draft resolutions contained in paragraph 29 of the report.
Draft resolution I is entitled "United Nations Framework Convention …
The President
Draft resolution II is entitled "Dissemination of the principles of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development". The Second Committee adopted it without a vote. May I take it that the Assembly wishes to do likewise?
The President
Draft resolution III, entitled "Elaboration of an international convention to combat desertification in countries experiencing serious drought and/or desertification, particularly in Africa", is recommended by the Second Committee. May I take it that the Assembly wishes to adopt draft resolution III.
The President
Draft resolution IV is entitled "Strengthening international cooperation in the monitoring of global environmental problems". The Second Committee adopted this draft resolution without a vote. May I take it that the Assembly wishes to do the same?
The President
Draft resolution V is entitled "Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States". The Second Committee adopted this draft resolution without a vote. May I take it that the Assembly wishes to do likewise?
The President
Draft resolution VI is entitled "United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks". The Second Committee adopted it without a vote. May I take it that the Assembly wishes to do the same?
The President
I now call on the representative of Tunisia, who wishes to speak in explanation of position.
Mr. Jomaa
We have supported draft resolution VI, on the United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and during the first session of the Conference we supported the proposal to have two further sessions of the Conference. We have, however, made clear this reservation: we do not want the programming of those sessions to overlap with other major follow-ups to the Rio …
The President
In accordance with General Assembly resolution 3208 (XXIX) of 11 October 1974, I now call on the Observer for the European Economic Community.
Mr. McDONALD
As at the last session of the General Assembly, the resolution on straddling and highly migratory fish stocks has given rise to profound differences of interpretation as to the scope of the Conference on these fish stocks, despite the absolute clarity of the Conference mandate.
The European Commission deeply regrets that we have not been able to arrive at a satisfactory solution on the text of t…
The President
I now call on the representative of Canada, who wishes to speak in explanation of position.
Mr. Strauss
Discussion of draft resolution VI, entitled "United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks", started at the beginning of November, at a meeting chaired by Ambassador Nandan of Fiji, who is Chairman of the Conference.
Several amendments to the original draft were proposed, and all but one of them were agreed to. The language complained of was drawn from reso…
The President
In the light of recent experience, I should like to refer to a problem concerning representatives who attempt to indicate that they wish to speak extempore but, for the obvious reason of distance, are not seen. It is the usual practice that, in plenary meetings, delegations register with the Secretariat their intention to speak. That practice ensures that we have ample notice and can provide for …
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