| Date | 26 October 1995 |
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Agenda item 8 (continued)
Adoption of the agenda and organization of work
Second report of the General Committee (A/50/250/Add.1)
Letter from the Chairman of the Committee on Conferences (A/50/404/Add.1)
The President
This morning, I draw the attention of representatives first to the second report of the General Committee (A/50/250/Add.1), concerning two requests: first, a request by the delegation of the Philippines for the inclusion of an additional item, and secondly, a request by Argentina, the Bahamas, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Uruguay and Venezuela for the inclusion in the agenda of an additional sub-item under item 112, "Human rights questions".
In paragraph 1 of the report, the General Committee recommends to the Assembly that the item entitled "Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace" be included in the agenda of the current session and that it should be considered directly in plenary meeting for the purpose of endorsing the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action. The Committee further recommends that the item should be allocated to the Second and Third Committees as appropriate for its substantive consideration.
May I take it that the General Assembly adopts the recommendation of the General Committee?
The President
In paragraph 2 of the report, the General Committee recommends to the Assembly that an additional sub-item, entitled "Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights", should be included as a sub-item of agenda item 112, "Human rights questions", and that it should be allocated to the Third Committee.
May I take it that the General Assembly adopts this recommendation?
The President
The Assembly will next turn its attention to document A/50/404/Add.1, which contains a letter dated 19 October 1995 addressed to the President of the Assembly by the Chairman of the Committee on Conferences. As members are aware, the Assembly, in paragraph 7 of its resolution 40/243, decided that no subsidiary organ should be permitted to meet at United Nations Headquarters during a regular session of the Assembly unless explicitly authorized by the Assembly.
As indicated in the letter I have just mentioned, the Committee on Conferences has recommended that the General Assembly authorize the Open-ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council and Other Matters Related to the Security Council, the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on An Agenda for Development and the High-level Open-ended Working Group on the Financial Situation of the United Nations to meet in New York during the fiftieth session of the General Assembly.
May I take it that the General Assembly adopts the recommendation of the Committee on Conferences?
