| Date | 11 December 2006 |
|---|---|
| Started | 10:00 |
| Ended | 13:05 |
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Agenda item 101
Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations
Note by the Secretary-General (A/61/371)
The President
As members are aware, in accordance with the provisions of Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations, and with the consent of the Security Council, the Secretary-General is mandated to notify the General Assembly of matters relative to the maintenance of international peace and security that are being dealt with by the Security Council and of matters with which the Council has ceased to deal.
In that connection, the General Assembly has before it a note by the Secretary-General issued as document A/61/371.
May I take it that the Assembly takes note of this document?
The President
May I take it that it is the wish of the General Assembly to conclude its consideration of agenda item 101?
Agenda items 9 and 111
Report of the Security Council (A/61/2)
Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters
The President
As members are aware, the question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council was first introduced onto our agenda in 1979, during the thirty-fourth session of the General Assembly.
Discussions on this matter led the Assembly, at its forty-eighth session, to adopt resolution 48/26 of 3 December 1993, by which it decided to establish 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.
Since January 1994, the Working Group has attempted to reach agreement on the various aspects of that important issue. As members will recall, a number of draft resolutions on the issue of Security Council reform were submitted by several groups of States during the fifty-ninth and sixtieth sessions. As a result, the General Assembly has discussed the issue at a number of informal and formal meetings. That is in addition to the regular general debate on this agenda item and further discussion during the item on follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit. So far, our ongoing efforts have not lead to an agreement on Security Council reform. However, we should not lose hope in our ability to make progress on that important matter.
We should also acknowledge the clear mandate to move forward on this issue in the 2005 World Summit Outcome document. Our leaders recommitted themselves to supporting
"early reform of the Security Council -- an essential element of our overall effort to reform the United Nations -- in order to make it more broadly representative, efficient and transparent and thus to further enhance its effectiveness and the legitimacy and implementation of its decisions" (resolution 60/1, para. 153).
After many years of inconclusive debate on that important matter, I believe that the time has come for us to make a realistic assessment of the whole issue. In so doing, we should be prepared to look at this matter with fresh and open minds so that we can make substantial progress. I therefore look forward to hearing members' concrete proposals and views on how to move ahead on that important reform agenda item.
As the President of the General Assembly at its sixty-first session, I wish to assure members of my readiness to work with all of them to establish the most appropriate process to enable us to fulfil the challenging task of reforming the Security Council, as mandated by our leaders.
I now give the floor to the President of the Security Council, Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, to introduce the report of the Security Council.
Mr. Al-Nasser (Qatar)
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| 197 |
| 198 |
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