| Date | 11 September 2006 |
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Agenda item 160
Follow-up to the recommendations on administrative and internal oversight of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme
The President
Members will recall that, at its 63rd plenary meeting, on 15 December 2005, the General Assembly decided to include this item in the agenda of the sixtieth session.
Ms. Chassoul (Costa Rica)
The delegation of Costa Rica requests agenda item 160 be kept on the agenda for the sixty-first session. As we all know, inclusion of this item was initiated by my Minister for Foreign Affairs, whom I have consulted and who has asked me to request that it be kept on the agenda. It is an item on which Costa Rica intends to follow up.
I apologize that this request was not made in writing. This document reached us quite belatedly, and I did not know that it was on today's agenda until now.
The President
We did not receive such an indication before the meeting. However, we take note of that comment and will pass it on to the new President of the General Assembly.
Mr. Yáñez-Barnuevo (Spain)
On behalf of the Spanish delegation, I wish to support the request made by the delegation of Costa Rica regarding agenda item 160 of the present General Assembly session. Since this item could not be fully considered during the present session, we would like the opportunity to consider it during the sixty-first session.
In addition, I should like to remind all delegations -- and in particular the Secretariat -- that when the time comes, we will need to have a document in all the official languages, since the text of the Volcker Commission report is available only in English. To discuss this item properly, we will need to have a document in the various official languages.
I wish to stress that my delegation is not requesting that the entire set of reports and all their annexes be translated into all the official languages; it would suffice to have a comprehensive summary with all the information necessary for a full discussion of the item.
Mr. Al-Istrabadi (Iraq)
I wanted to raise my voice and that of my delegation in support of the statement made by the representative of Costa Rica and of the statement of the representative of Spain with respect to translation.
The President
It is likely that the General Committee will discuss this request at the outset of its work.
May I take it that it is the wish of the Assembly to conclude its consideration of agenda item 160?
