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Appendix I Appendix l Roster of the United Nations There were 191 Member States as at 31 December 2005.

DATE OF DATE OF DATE OF MEMBER ADMISSION MEMBER ADMISSION MEMBER ADMISSION

Afghanistan 19 Nov. 1946 El Salvador 24 Oct. 1945 Mauritania 27 Oct. 1961 Albania 14 Dec. 1955 Equatorial Guinea 12 Nov. 1968 Mauritius 24 Apr. 1968 Algeria 8 Oct. 1962 Eritrea 28 May 1993 Mexico 7 Nov. 1945 Andorra 28 July 1993 Estonia 17 Sep. 1991 Micronesia (Federated Angola 1 Dec. 1976 Ethiopia 13 Nov. 1945 States of) 17 Sep. 1991 Antigua and Barbuda 11 Nov. 1981 Fiji 13 Oct. 1970 Monaco 28 May 1993 Argentina 24 Oct. 1945 Finland 14 Dec. 1955 Mongolia 27 Oct. 1961 Armenia 2 Mar. 1992 France 24 Oct. 1945 Morocco 12 Nov. 1956 Australia 1 Nov. 1945 Gabon 20 Sep. 1960 Mozambique 16 Sep. 1975 Austria 14 Dec. 1955 Gambia 21 Sep. 1965 Myanmar 19 Apr. 1948 Azerbaijan 2 Mar. 1992 Georgia 31 July 1992 Namibia 23 Apr. 1990 Bahamas 18 Sep. 1973 Germany3 18 Sep. 1973 Nauru 14 Sep. 1999 Bahrain 21 Sep. 1971 Ghana 8 Mar. 1957 Nepal 14 Dec. 1955 Bangladesh 17 Sep. 1974 Greece 25 Oct. 1945 Netherlands 10 Dec. 1945 Barbados 9 Dec. 1966 Grenada 17 Sep. 1974 New Zealand 24 Oct. 1945 Belarus 24 Oct. 1945 Guatemala 21 Nov. 1945 Nicaragua 24 Oct. 1945 Belgium 27 Dec. 1945 Guinea 12 Dec. 1958 Niger 20 Sep. 1960 Belize 25 Sep. 1981 Guinea-Bissau 17 Sep. 1974 Nigeria 7 Oct. 1960 Benin 20 Sep. 1960 Guyana 20 Sep. 1966 Norway 27 Nov. 1945 Bhutan 21 Sep. 1971 Haiti 24 Oct. 1945 Oman 7 Oct. 1971 Bolivia 14 Nov. 1945 Honduras 17 Dec. 1945 Pakistan 30 Sep. 1947 Bosnia and Herzegovina 22 May 1992 Hungary 14 Dec. 1955 Palau 15 Dec. 1994 Botswana 17 Oct. 1966 Iceland 19 Nov. 1946 Panama 13 Nov. 1945 Brazil 24 Oct. 1945 India 30 Oct. 1945 Papua New Guinea 10 Oct. 1975 Brunei Darussalam 21 Sep. 1984 Indonesia4 28 Sep. 1950 Paraguay 24 Oct. 1945 Bulgaria 14 Dec. 1955 Iran (Islamic Republic of) 24 Oct. 1945 Peru 31 Oct. 1945 Burkina Faso 20 Sep. 1960 Iraq 21 Dec. 1945 Philippines 24 Oct. 1945 Burundi 18 Sep. 1962 Ireland 14 Dec. 1955 Poland 24 Oct. 1945 Cambodia 14 Dec. 1955 Israel 11 May 1949 Portugal 14 Dec. 1955 Cameroon 20 Sep. 1960 Italy 14 Dec. 1955 Qatar 21 Sep. 1971 Canada 9 Nov. 1945 Jamaica 18 Sep. 1962 Republic of Korea 17 Sep. 1991 Cape Verde 16 Sep. 1975 Japan 18 Dec. 1956 Republic of Moldova 2 Mar. 1992 Central African Republic 20 Sep. 1960 Jordan 14 Dec. 1955 Romania 14 Dec. 1955 Chad 20 Sep. 1960 Kazakhstan 2 Mar. 1992 Russian Federation6 24 Oct. 1945 Chile 24 Oct. 1945 Kenya 16 Dec. 1963 Rwanda 18 Sep. 1962 China 24 Oct. 1945 Kiribati 14 Sep. 1999 Saint Kitts and Nevis 23 Sep. 1983 Colombia 5 Nov. 1945 Kuwait 14 May 1963 Saint Lucia 18 Sep. 1979 Comoros 12 Nov. 1975 Kyrgyzstan 2 Mar. 1992 Saint Vincent and the Congo 20 Sep. 1960 Lao People’s Democratic Grenadines 16 Sep. 1980 Costa Rica 2 Nov. 1945 Republic 14 Dec. 1955 Samoa 15 Dec. 1976 Côte d’Ivoire 20 Sep. 1960 Latvia 17 Sep. 1991 San Marino 2 Mar. 1992 Croatia 22 May 1992 Lebanon 24 Oct. 1945 Sao Tome and Principe 16 Sep. 1975 Cuba 24 Oct. 1945 Lesotho 17 Oct. 1966 Saudi Arabia 24 Oct. 1945 Cyprus 20 Sep. 1960 Liberia 2 Nov. 1945 Senegal 28 Sep. 1960 Czech Republic1 19 Jan. 1993 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 14 Dec. 1955 Serbia and Montenegro 1 Nov. 2000 Democratic People’s Liechtenstein 18 Sep. 1990 Seychelles 21 Sep. 1976 Republic of Korea 17 Sep. 1991 Lithuania 17 Sep. 1991 Sierra Leone 27 Sep. 1961 Democratic Republic of Luxembourg 24 Oct. 1945 Singapore5 21 Sep. 1965 the Congo 20 Sep. 1960 Madagascar 20 Sep. 1960 Slovakia1 19 Jan. 1993 Denmark 24 Oct. 1945 Malawi 1 Dec. 1964 Slovenia 22 May 1992 Djibouti 20 Sep. 1977 Malaysia5 17 Sep. 1957 Solomon Islands 19 Sep. 1978 Dominica 18 Dec. 1978 Maldives 21 Sep. 1965 Somalia 20 Sep. 1960 Dominican Republic 24 Oct. 1945 Mali 28 Sep. 1960 South Africa 7 Nov. 1945 Ecuador 21 Dec. 1945 Malta 1 Dec. 1964 Spain 14 Dec. 1955 Egypt2 24 Oct. 1945 Marshall Islands 17 Sep. 1991 Sri Lanka 14 Dec. 1955

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DATE OF DATE OF DATE OF MEMBER ADMISSION MEMBER ADMISSION MEMBER ADMISSION

Sudan 12 Nov. 1956 Tonga 14 Sep. 1999 United Republic of Suriname 4 Dec. 1975 Trinidad and Tobago 18 Sep. 1962 Tanzania7 14 Dec. 1961 Swaziland 24 Sep. 1968 Tunisia 12 Nov. 1956 United States of America 24 Oct. 1945 Sweden 19 Nov. 1946 Turkey 24 Oct. 1945 Uruguay 18 Dec. 1945 Switzerland 10 Sep. 2002 Turkmenistan 2 Mar. 1992 Uzbekistan 2 Mar. 1992 Syrian Arab Republic2 24 Oct. 1945 Tuvalu 5 Sep. 2000 Vanuatu 15 Sep. 1981 Tajikistan 2 Mar. 1992 Uganda 25 Oct. 1962 Venezuela (Bolivarian Thailand 16 Dec. 1946 Ukraine 24 Oct. 1945 Republic of) 15 Nov. 1945 The former Yugoslav United Arab Emirates 9 Dec. 1971 Viet Nam 20 Sep. 1977 Republic of Macedonia 8 Apr. 1993 United Kingdom of Great Yemen8 30 Sep. 1947 Timor-Leste 27 Sep. 2002 Britain and Northern Zambia 1 Dec. 1964 Togo 20 Sep. 1960 Ireland 24 Oct. 1945 Zimbabwe 25 Aug. 1980

1Czechoslovakia, which was an original Member of the United Nations from 24 October 1945, split up on 1 January 1993 and was succeeded by the Czech Republic and Slovakia. 2Egypt and Syria, both of which became Members of the United Nations on 24 October 1945, joined together—following a plebiscite held in those countries on 21 February 1958—to form the United Arab Republic. On 13 October 1961, Syria, having resumed its status as an independent State, also re- sumed its separate membership in the United Nations; it changed its name to the Syrian Arab Republic on 14 September 1971. The United Arab Republic continued as a Member of the United Nations and reverted to the name of Egypt on 2 September 1971. 3Through accession of the German Democratic Republic to the Federal Republic of Germany on 3 October 1990, the two German States (both of which became United Nations Members on 18 September 1973) united to form one sovereign State. As from that date, the Federal Republic of Germany has acted in the United Nations under the designation Germany. 4On 20 January 1965, Indonesia informed the Secretary-General that it had decided to withdraw from the United Nations. By a telegram of 19 Septem- ber 1966, it notified the Secretary-General of its decision to resume participation in the activities of the United Nations. On 28 September 1966, the Gen- eral Assembly took note of that decision and the President invited the representatives of Indonesia to take their seats in the Assembly. 5On 16 September 1963, Sabah (North Borneo), Sarawak and Singapore joined with the Federation of Malaya (which became a United Nations Mem- ber on 17 September 1957) to form Malaysia. On 9 August 1965, Singapore became an independent State and on 21 September 1965 it became a Mem- ber of the United Nations. 6The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was an original Member of the United Nations from 24 October 1945. On 24 December 1991, the President of the Russian Federation informed the Secretary-General that the membership of the USSR in all United Nations organs was being continued by the Russian Federation. 7Tanganyika was admitted to the United Nations on 14 December 1961, and Zanzibar, on 16 December 1963. Following ratification, on 26 April 1964, of the Articles of Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar, the two States became represented as a single Member: the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar; it changed its name to the United Republic of Tanzania on 1 November 1964. 8Yemen was admitted to the United Nations on 30 September 1947 and Democratic Yemen on 14 December 1967. On 22 May 1990, the two countries merged and have since been represented as one Member.

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Appendix II Appendix ll Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice

Charter of the United Nations

NOTE: The Charter of the United Nations was signed on 26 June The amendment to Article 61, which entered into force 1945, in San Francisco, at the conclusion of the United Nations on 31 August 1965, enlarged the membership of the Conference on International Organization, and came into force Economic and Social Council from 18 to 27. The subsequent on 24 October 1945. The Statute of the International Court of amendment to that Article, which entered into force on 24 Sep- Justice is an integral part of the Charter. tember 1973, further increased the membership of the Council Amendments to Articles 23, 27 and 61 of the Charter were from 27 to 54. adopted by the General Assembly on 17 December 1963 and The amendment to Article 109, which relates to the first para- came into force on 31 August 1965. A further amendment to Ar- graph of that Article, provides that a General Conference of ticle 61 was adopted by the General Assembly on 20 December Member States for the purpose of reviewing the Charter may 1971 and came into force on 24 September 1973. An amend- be held at a date and place to be fixed by a two-thirds vote of the ment to Article 109, adopted by the General Assembly on 20 De- members of the General Assembly and by a vote of any nine cember 1965, came into force on 12 June 1968. members (formerly seven) of the Security Council. Paragraph 3 The amendment to Article 23 enlarges the membership of the of Article 109, which deals with the consideration of a possible Security Council from 11 to 15. The amended Article 27 pro- review conference during the tenth regular session of the Gen- vides that decisions of the Security Council on procedural mat- eral Assembly, has been retained in its original form in its refer- ters shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members (for- ence to a “vote of any seven members of the Security Council”, merly seven) and on all other matters by an affirmative vote of the paragraph having been acted upon in 1955 by the General nine members (formerly seven), including the concurring votes Assembly, at its tenth regular session, and by the Security of the five permanent members of the Security Council. Council.

WE THE PEOPLES Chapter I OF THE UNITED NATIONS PURPOSES AND PRINCIPLES DETERMINED to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which Article 1 twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and The Purposes of the United Nations are: to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity 1. To maintain international peace and security, and to that and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men end: to take effective collective measures for the prevention and and women and of nations large and small, and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the of aggression or other breaches of the peace, and to bring about obligations arising from treaties and other sources of interna- by peaceful means, and in conformity with the principles of jus- tional law can be maintained, and tice and international law, adjustment or settlement of interna- to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger tional disputes or situations which might lead to a breach of the freedom, peace; 2. To develop friendly relations among nations based on re- AND FOR THESE ENDS spect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, and to take other appropriate measures to strengthen to practice tolerance and live together in peace with one universal peace; another as good neighbours, and 3. To achieve international co-operation in solving interna- to unite our strength to maintain international peace and secu- tional problems of an economic, social, cultural or humanita- rity, and rian character, and in promoting and encouraging respect for to ensure, by the acceptance of principles and the institution of human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without dis- methods, that armed force shall not be used, save in the com- tinction as to race, sex, language or religion; and mon interest, and 4. To be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations in to employ international machinery for the promotion of the the attainment of these common ends. economic and social advancement of all peoples, Article 2 HAVE RESOLVED TO The Organization and its Members, in pursuit of the Purposes COMBINE OUR EFFORTS TO stated in Article 1, shall act in accordance with the following ACCOMPLISH THESE AIMS Principles: Accordingly, our respective Governments, through representa- 1. The Organization is based on the principle of the sover- tives assembled in the city of San Francisco, who have exhib- eign equality of all its Members. ited their full powers found to be in good and due form, have 2. All Members, in order to ensure to all of them the rights agreed to the present Charter of the United Nations and do and benefits resulting from membership, shall fulfil in good hereby establish an international organization to be known faith the obligations assumed by them in accordance with the as the United Nations. present Charter.

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3. All Members shall settle their international disputes by Chapter IV peaceful means in such a manner that international peace and THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY security, and justice, are not endangered. 4. All Members shall refrain in their international relations Composition from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner in- Article 9 consistent with the Purposes of the United Nations. 1. The General Assembly shall consist of all the Members of 5. All Members shall give the United Nations every assist- the United Nations. ance in any action it takes in accordance with the present Char- 2. Each Member shall have not more than five representa- ter, and shall refrain from giving assistance to any state against tives in the General Assembly. which the United Nations is taking preventive or enforcement action. Functions and Powers 6. The Organization shall ensure that states which are not Members of the United Nations act in accordance with these Article 10 Principles so far as may be necessary for the maintenance of in- The General Assembly may discuss any questions or any ternational peace and security. matters within the scope of the present Charter or relating to 7. Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the powers and functions of any organs provided for in the the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially present Charter, and, except as provided in Article 12, may within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the make recommendations to the Members of the United Nations Members to submit such matters to settlement under the pres- or to the Security Council or both on any such questions or mat- ent Charter; but this principle shall not prejudice the application ters. of enforcement measures under Chapter VII. Article 11 Chapter II 1. The General Assembly may consider the general princi- MEMBERSHIP ples of co-operation in the maintenance of international peace and security, including the principles governing disarmament Article 3 and the regulation of armaments, and may make recommenda- The original Members of the United Nations shall be the tions with regard to such principles to the Members or to the states which, having participated in the United Nations Confer- Security Council or to both. ence on International Organization at San Francisco or having 2. The General Assembly may discuss any questions relat- previously signed the Declaration by United Nations of 1 Janu- ing to the maintenance of international peace and security ary 1942, sign the present Charter and ratify it in accordance brought before it by any Member of the United Nations, or by with Article 110. the Security Council, or by a state which is not a Member of the United Nations in accordance with Article 35, paragraph 2, and, Article 4 except as provided in Article 12, may make recommendations 1. Membership in the United Nations is open to all other with regard to any such questions to the state or states con- peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in cerned or to the Security Council or to both. Any such question the present Charter and, in the judgment of the Organization, on which action is necessary shall be referred to the Security are able and willing to carry out these obligations. Council by the General Assembly either before or after discus- 2. The admission of any such state to membership in the sion. United Nations will be effected by a decision of the General As- 3. The General Assembly may call the attention of the Secu- sembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. rity Council to situations which are likely to endanger interna- tional peace and security. Article 5 4. The powers of the General Assembly set forth in this Arti- A Member of the United Nations against which preventive or cle shall not limit the general scope of Article 10. enforcement action has been taken by the Security Council may be suspended from the exercise of the rights and privileges of Article 12 membership by the General Assembly upon the recommenda- 1. While the Security Council is exercising in respect of any tion of the Security Council. The exercise of these rights and dispute or situation the functions assigned to it in the present privileges may be restored by the Security Council. Charter, the General Assembly shall not make any recommen- dation with regard to that dispute or situation unless the Secu- Article 6 rity Council so requests. A Member of the United Nations which has persistently vio- 2. The Secretary-General, with the consent of the Security lated the Principles contained in the present Charter may be ex- Council, shall notify the General Assembly at each session of pelled from the Organization by the General Assembly upon any matters relative to the maintenance of international peace the recommendation of the Security Council. and security which are being dealt with by the Security Council and shall similarly notify the General Assembly, or the Mem- Chapter III bers of the United Nations if the General Assembly is not in ses- ORGANS sion, immediately the Security Council ceases to deal with such matters. Article 7 Article 13 1. There are established as the principal organs of the United Nations: a General Assembly, a Security Council, an 1. The General Assembly shall initiate studies and make Economic and Social Council, a TrusteeshipCouncil, an Interna- recommendations for the purpose of: tional Court of Justice, and a Secretariat. a. promoting international co-operation in the political 2. Such subsidiary organs as may be found necessary may field and encouraging the progressive development of be established in accordance with the present Charter. international law and its codification; b. promoting international co-operation in the economic, Article 8 social, cultural, educational and health fields, and assist- The United Nations shall place no restrictions on the eligibil- ing in the realization of human rights and fundamental ity of men and women to participate in any capacity and under freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, lan- conditions of equality in its principal and subsidiary organs. guage or religion.

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2. The further responsibilities, functions and powers of the Procedure General Assembly with respect to matters mentioned in para- graph 1 (b) above are set forth in Chapters IX and X. Article 20 The General Assembly shall meet in regular annual sessions Article 14 and in such special sessions as occasion may require. Special Subject to the provisions of Article 12, the General Assembly sessions shall be convoked by the Secretary-General at the re- may recommend measures for the peaceful adjustment of any quest of the Security Council or of a majority of the Members of situation, regardless of origin, which it deems likely to impair the United Nations. the general welfare or friendly relations among nations, includ- ing situations resulting from a violation of the provisions of the Article 21 present Charter setting forth the Purposes and Principles of the The General Assembly shall adopt its own rules of procedure. United Nations. It shall elect its President for each session.

Article 15 Article 22 1. The General Assembly shall receive and consider annual The General Assembly may establish such subsidiary organs and special reports from the Security Council; these reports as it deems necessary for the performance of its functions. shall include an account of the measures that the Security Council has decided upon or taken to maintain international Chapter V peace and security. THE SECURITY COUNCIL 2. The General Assembly shall receive and consider reports from the other organs of the United Nations. Composition

Article 16 Article 231 The General Assembly shall perform such functions with 1. The Security Council shall consist of fifteen Members of respect to the international trusteeship system as are as- the United Nations. The Republic of China, France, the Union of signed to it under Chapters XII and XIII, including the ap- Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain proval of the trusteeship agreements for areas not desig- and Northern Ireland and the United States of America shall be nated as strategic. permanent members of the Security Council. The General As- sembly shall elect ten other Members of the United Nations to Article 17 be non-permanent members of the Security Council, due re- 1. The General Assembly shall consider and approve the gard being specially paid, in the first instance to the contribu- budget of the Organization. tion of Members of the United Nations to the maintenance of in- 2. The expenses of the Organization shall be borne by the ternational peace and security and to the other purposes of the Members as apportioned by the General Assembly. Organization, and also to equitable geographical distribution. 3. The General Assembly shall consider and approve any fi- 2. The non-permanent members of the Security Council nancial and budgetary arrangements with specialized agencies shall be elected for a term of two years. In the first election of referred to in Article 57 and shall examine the administrative the non-permanent members after the increase of the member- budgets of such specialized agencies with a view to making rec- ship of the Security Council from eleven to fifteen, two of the ommendations to the agencies concerned. four additional members shall be chosen for a term of one year. A retiring member shall not be eligible for immediate re- Voting election. 3. Each member of the Security Council shall have one rep- Article 18 resentative. 1. Each member of the General Assembly shall have one vote. Functions and Powers 2. Decisions of the General Assembly on important questions shall be made by a two-thirds majority of the Article 24 members present and voting. These questions shall include: 1. In order to ensure prompt and effective action by the recommendations with respect to the maintenance of inter- United Nations, its Members confer on the Security Council pri- national peace and security, the election of the non- mary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace permanent members of the Security Council, the election of and security, and agree that in carrying out its duties under this the members of the Economic and Social Council, the elec- responsibility the Security Council acts on their behalf. tion of members of the Trusteeship Council in accordance 2. In discharging these duties the Security Council shall act with paragraph 1 (c) of Article 86, the admission of new in accordance with the Purposes and Principles of the United Members to the United Nations, the suspension of the rights Nations. The specific powers granted to the Security Council for and privileges of membership, the expulsion of Members, the discharge of these duties are laid down in Chapters VI, VII, questions relating to the operation of the trusteeship sys- VIII and XII. tem, and budgetary questions. 3. The Security Council shall submit annual and, when nec- 3. Decisions on other questions, including the determina- essary, special reports to the General Assembly for its consid- tion of additional categories of questions to be decided by a eration. two-thirds majority, shall be made by a majority of the mem- bers present and voting. Article 25 The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry Article 19 out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the A Member of the United Nations which is in arrears in the present Charter. payment of its financial contributions to the Organization shall have no vote in the General Assembly if the amount of its ar- Article 26 rears equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions due In order to promote the establishment and maintenance of in- from it for the preceding two full years. The General Assembly ternational peace and security with the least diversion for ar- may, nevertheless, permit such a Member to vote if it is satis- maments of the world’s human and economic resources, the fied that the failure to pay is due to conditions beyond the con- Security Council shall be responsible for formulating, with the trol of the Member. assistance of the Military Staff Committee referred to in Article

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47, plans to be submitted to the Members of the United Nations to a dispute, in order to determine whether the continuance of for the establishment of a system for the regulation of arma- the dispute or situation is likely to endanger the maintenance of ments. international peace and security.

Voting Article 35 1. Any Member of the United Nations may bring any dispute, Article 272 or any situation of the nature referred to in Article 34, to the at- 1. Each member of the Security Council shall have one vote. tention of the Security Council or of the General Assembly. 2. Decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters 2. A state which is not a Member of the United Nations may shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members. bring to the attention of the Security Council or of the General 3. Decisions of the Security Council on all other matters Assembly any dispute to which it is a party if it accepts in ad- shall be made by an affirmative vote of nine members including vance, for the purposes of the dispute, the obligations of pacific the concurring votes of the permanent members; provided settlement provided in the present Charter. that, in decisions under Chapter VI, and under paragraph 3 of 3. The proceedings of the General Assembly in respect of Article 52, a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting. matters brought to its attention under this Article will be subject to the provisions of Articles 11 and 12. Procedure Article 36 Article 28 1. The Security Council may, at any stage of a dispute of the 1. The Security Council shall be so organized as to be able nature referred to in Article 33 or of a situation of like nature, to function continuously. Each member of the Security Council recommend appropriate procedures or methods of adjust- shall for this purpose be represented at all times at the seat of ment. the Organization. 2. The Security Council should take into consideration any 2. The Security Council shall hold periodic meetings at procedures for the settlement of the dispute which have al- which each of its members may, if it so desires, be represented ready been adopted by the parties. by a member of the government or by some other specially 3. In making recommendations under this Article the Secu- designated representative. rity Council should also take into consideration that legal dis- 3. The Security Council may hold meetings at such places putes should as a general rule be referred by the parties to the other than the seat of the Organization as in its judgment will International Court of Justice in accordance with the provisions best facilitate its work. of the Statute of the Court.

Article 29 Article 37 The Security Council may establish such subsidiary organs 1. Should the parties to a dispute of the nature referred to in as it deems necessary for the performance of its functions. Article 33 fail to settle it by the means indicated in that Article, they shall refer it to the Security Council. Article 30 2. If the Security Council deems that the continuance of the The Security Council shall adopt its own rules of procedure, dispute is in fact likely to endanger the maintenance of interna- including the method of selecting its President. tional peace and security, it shall decide whether to take action under Article 36 or to recommend such terms of settlement as it Article 31 may consider appropriate. Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of the Security Council may participate, without vote, in the dis- Article 38 cussion of any question brought before the Security Council Without prejudice to the provisions of Articles 33 to 37, the whenever the latter considers that the interests of that Member Security Council may, if all the parties to any dispute so request, are specially affected. make recommendations to the parties with a view to a pacific settlement of the dispute. Article 32 Any Member of the United Nations which is not a member of Chapter VII the Security Council or any state which is not a Member of the ACTION WITH RESPECT TO THREATS TO THE PEACE, United Nations, if it is a party to a dispute under consideration BREACHES OF THE PEACE, AND ACTS OF AGGRESSION by the Security Council, shall be invited to participate, without vote, in the discussion relating to the dispute. The Security Article 39 Council shall lay down such conditions as it deems just for the The Security Council shall determine the existence of any participation of a state which is not a Member of the United Na- threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression tions. and shall make recommendations, or decide what measures shall be taken in accordance with Articles 41 and 42, to maintain Chapter VI or restore international peace and security. PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES Article 40 Article 33 In order to prevent an aggravation of the situation, the Secu- 1. The parties to any dispute, the continuance of which is rity Council may, before making the recommendations or de- likely to endanger the maintenance of international peace and ciding upon the measures provided for in Article 39, call upon security, shall, first of all, seek a solution by negotiation, en- the parties concerned to comply with such provisional meas- quiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement, ures as it deems necessary or desirable. Such provisional resort to regional agencies or arrangements, or other peaceful measures shall be without prejudice to the rights, claims or po- means of their own choice. sition of the parties concerned. The Security Council shall duly 2. The Security Council shall, when it deems necessary, call take account of failure to comply with such provisional meas- upon the parties to settle their dispute by such means. ures.

Article 34 Article 41 The Security Council may investigate any dispute, or any The Security Council may decide what measures not involv- situation which might lead to international friction or give rise ing the use of armed force are to be employed to give effect to

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its decisions, and it may call upon the Members of the United 3. The Military Staff Committee shall be responsible under Nations to apply such measures. These may include complete the Security Council for the strategic direction of any armed or partial interruption of economic relations and of rail, sea, air, forces placed at the disposal of the Security Council. Questions postal, telegraphic, radio and other means of communication, relating to the command of such forces shall be worked out and the severance of diplomatic relations. subsequently. 4. The Military Staff Committee, with the authorization of Article 42 the Security Council and after consultation with appropriate re- Should the Security Council consider that measures pro- gional agencies, may establish regional sub-committees. vided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be Article 48 inadequate, it may take such action by air, sea or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace 1. The action required to carry out the decisions of the Secu- and security. Such action may include demonstrations, block- rity Council for the maintenance of international peace and se- ade, and other operations by air, sea, or land forces of Members curity shall be taken by all the Members of the United Nations of the United Nations. or by some of them, as the Security Council may determine. 2. Such decisions shall be carried out by the Members of the Article 43 United Nations directly and through their action in the appro- priate international agencies of which they are members. 1. All Members of the United Nations, in order to contribute to the maintenance of international peace and security, under- Article 49 take to make available to the Security Council, on its call and in The Members of the United Nations shall join in affording accordance with a special agreement or agreements, armed mutual assistance in carrying out the measures decided upon forces, assistance and facilities, including rights of passage, by the Security Council. necessary for the purpose of maintaining international peace and security. Article 50 2. Such agreement or agreements shall govern the num- If preventive or enforcement measures against any state are bers and types of forces, their degree of readiness and general taken by the Security Council, any other state, whether a Mem- location, and the nature of the facilities and assistance to be ber of the United Nations or not, which finds itself confronted provided. with special economic problems arising from the carrying out 3. The agreement or agreements shall be negotiated as of those measures shall have the right to consult the Security soon as possible on the initiative of the Security Council. They Council with regard to a solution of those problems. shall be concluded between the Security Council and Members or between the Security Council and groups of Members and Article 51 shall be subject to ratification by the signatory states in accord- Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right ance with their respective constitutional processes. of individual or collective self-defence if an armed attack occurs Article 44 against a Member of the United Nations, until the Security Council has taken measures necessary to maintain interna- When the Security Council has decided to use force it shall, tional peace and security. Measures taken by Members in the before calling upon a Member not represented on it to provide exercise of this right of self-defence shall be immediately re- armed forces in fulfilment of the obligations assumed under Ar- ported to the Security Council and shall not in any way affect ticle 43, invite that Member, if the Member so desires, to partici- the authority and responsibility of the Security Council under pate in the decisions of the Security Council concerning the em- the present Charter to take at any time such action as it deems ployment of contingents of that Member’s armed forces. necessary in order to maintain or restore international peace and security. Article 45 In order to enable the United Nations to take urgent military Chapter VIII measures, Members shall hold immediately available national REGIONAL ARRANGEMENTS air-force contingents for combined international enforcement action. The strength and degree of readiness of these contin- Article 52 gents and plans for their combined action shall be determined, 1. Nothing in the present Charter precludes the existence of within the limits laid down in the special agreement or agree- regional arrangements or agencies for dealing with such mat- ments referred to in Article 43, by the Security Council with the ters relating to the maintenance of international peace and se- assistance of the Military Staff Committee. curity as are appropriate for regional action, provided that such Article 46 arrangements or agencies and their activities are consistent with the Purposes and Principles of the United Nations. Plans for the application of armed force shall be made by the 2. The Members of the United Nations entering into such Security Council with the assistance of the Military Staff Com- arrangements or constituting such agencies shall make every mittee. effort to achieve pacific settlement of local disputes through such regional arrangements or by such regional agencies be- Article 47 fore referring them to the Security Council. 1. There shall be established a Military Staff Committee to 3. The Security Council shall encourage the development of advise and assist the Security Council on all questions relating pacific settlement of local disputes through such regional ar- to the Security Council’s military requirements for the mainte- rangements or by such regional agencies either on the initiative nance of international peace and security, the employment and of the states concerned or by reference from the Security Coun- command of forces placed at its disposal, the regulation of ar- cil. maments, and possible disarmament. 4. This Article in no way impairs the application of Articles 2. The Military Staff Committee shall consist of the Chiefs of 34 and 35. Staff of the permanent members of the Security Council or their representatives. Any Member of the United Nations not perma- Article 53 nently represented on the Committee shall be invited by the 1. The Security Council shall, where appropriate, utilize Committee to be associated with it when the efficient discharge such regional arrangements or agencies for enforcement ac- of the Committee’s responsibilities requires the participation of tion under its authority. But no enforcement action shall be that Member in its work. taken under regional arrangements or by regional agencies

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without the authorization of the Security Council, with the ex- Chapter X ception of measures against any enemy state, as defined in THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL paragraph 2 of this Article, provided for pursuant to Article 107 or in regional arrangements directed against renewal of ag- Composition gressive policy on the part of any such state, until such time as the Organization may, on request of the Governments con- Article 613 cerned, be charged with the responsibility for preventing fur- ther aggression by such a state. 1. The Economic and Social Council shall consist of fifty- 2. The term enemy state as used in paragraph 1 of this Arti- four Members of the United Nations elected by the General As- cle applies to any state which during the Second World War has sembly. been an enemy of any signatory of the present Charter. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, eighteen mem- bers of the Economic and Social Council shall be elected each Article 54 year for a term of three years. A retiring member shall be eligi- The Security Council shall at all times be kept fully informed ble for immediate re-election. of activities undertaken or in contemplation under regional ar- 3. At the first election after the increase in the member- rangements or by regional agencies for the maintenance of in- ship of the Economic and Social Council from twenty-seven ternational peace and security. to fifty-four members, in addition to the members elected in place of the nine members whose term of office expires at the end of that year, twenty-seven additional members shall Chapter IX be elected. Of these twenty-seven additional members, the INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC term of office of nine members so elected shall expire at the AND SOCIAL CO-OPERATION end of one year, and of nine other members at the end of two years, in accordance with arrangements made by the Gen- Article 55 eral Assembly. With a view to the creation of conditions of stability and well- 4. Each member of the Economic and Social Council shall being which are necessary for peaceful and friendly relations have one representative. among nations based on respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples, the United Nations Functions and Powers shall promote: a. higher standards of living, full employment, and condi- Article 62 tions of economic and social progress and development; 1. The Economic and Social Council may make or initiate b. solutions of international economic, social, health, and studies and reports with respect to international economic, so- related problems; and international cultural and educa- cial, cultural, educational, health, and related matters and may tional co-operation; and make recommendations with respect to any such matters to the General Assembly, to the Members of the United Nations, and c. universal respect for, and observance of, human rights to the specialized agencies concerned. and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as 2. It may make recommendations for the purpose of pro- to race, sex, language, or religion. moting respect for, and observance of, human rights and funda- mental freedoms for all. Article 56 3. It may prepare draft conventions for submission to the All Members pledge themselves to take joint and separate ac- General Assembly, with respect to matters falling within its tion in co-operation with the Organization for the achievement competence. of the purposes set forth in Article 55. 4. It may call, in accordance with the rules prescribed by the United Nations, international conferences on matters falling Article 57 within its competence. 1. The various specialized agencies, established by inter- governmental agreement and having wide international re- Article 63 sponsibilities, as defined in their basic instruments, in eco- 1. The Economic and Social Council may enter into agree- nomic, social, cultural, educational, health, and related fields, ments with any of the agencies referred to in Article 57, defining shall be brought into relationship with the United Nations in ac- the terms on which the agency concerned shall be brought into cordance with the provisions of Article 63. relationship with the United Nations. Such agreements shall be 2. Such agencies thus brought into relationship with the subject to approval by the General Assembly. United Nations are hereinafter referred to as specialized agen- 2. It may co-ordinate the activities of the specialized agen- cies. cies through consultation with and recommendations to such agencies and through recommendations to the General As- Article 58 sembly and to the Members of the United Nations. The Organization shall make recommendations for the co- ordination of the policies and activities of the specialized agen- Article 64 cies. 1. The Economic and Social Council may take appropriate steps to obtain regular reports from the specialized agencies. It Article 59 may make arrangements with the Members of the United Na- The Organization shall, where appropriate, initiate negotia- tions and with the specialized agencies to obtain reports on the tions among the states concerned for the creation of any new steps taken to give effect to its own recommendations and to specialized agencies required for the accomplishment of the recommendations on matters falling within its competence purposes set forth in Article 55. made by the General Assembly. 2. It may communicate its observations on these reports to Article 60 the General Assembly. Responsibility for the discharge of the functions of the Or- ganization set forth in this Chapter shall be vested in the Gen- Article 65 eral Assembly and, under the authority of the General Assem- The Economic and Social Council may furnish information to bly, in the Economic and Social Council, which shall have for the Security Council and shall assist the Security Council upon this purpose the powers set forth in Chapter X. its request.

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Article 66 a. to ensure, with due respect for the culture of the peoples 1. The Economic and Social Council shall perform such concerned, their political, economic, social, and educa- functions as fall within its competence in connexion with the tional advancement, their just treatment, and their pro- carrying out of the recommendations of the General Assembly. tection against abuses; 2. It may, with the approval of the General Assembly, per- b. to develop self-government, to take due account of the form services at the request of Members of the United Nations political aspirations of the peoples, and to assist them in and at the request of specialized agencies. the progressive development of their free political insti- 3. It shall perform such other functions as are specified else- tutions, according to the particular circumstances of where in the present Charter or as may be assigned to it by the each territory and its peoples and their varying stages of General Assembly. advancement; c. to further international peace and security; Voting d. to promote constructive measures of development, to encourage research, and to co-operate with one another Article 67 and, when and where appropriate, with specialized in- 1. Each member of the Economic and Social Council shall ternational bodies with a view to the practical achieve- have one vote. ment of the social, economic, and scientific purposes set 2. Decisions of the Economic and Social Council shall be forth in this Article; and made by a majority of the members present and voting. e. to transmit regularly to the Secretary-General for infor- mation purposes, subject to such limitation as security Procedure and constitutional considerations may require, statisti- cal and other information of a technical nature relating to Article 68 economic, social, and educational conditions in the terri- The Economic and Social Council shall set up commissions in tories for which they are respectively responsible other economic and social fields and for the promotion of human than those territories to which Chapters XII and XIII ap- rights, and such other commissions as may be required for the ply. performance of its functions. Article 74 Article 69 Members of the United Nations also agree that their policy in respect of the territories to which this Chapter applies, no less The Economic and Social Council shall invite any Member of than in respect of their metropolitan areas, must be based on the United Nations to participate, without vote, in its delibera- the general principle of good-neighbourliness, due account be- tions on any matter of particular concern to that Member. ing taken of the interests and well-being of the rest of the world, Article 70 in social, economic, and commercial matters. The Economic and Social Council may make arrangements for representatives of the specialized agencies to participate, Chapter XII without vote, in its deliberations and in those of the commis- INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEESHIP SYSTEM sions established by it, and for its representatives to participate Article 75 in the deliberations of the specialized agencies. The United Nations shall establish under its authority an in- Article 71 ternational trusteeship system for the administration and su- The Economic and Social Council may make suitable ar- pervision of such territories as may be placed thereunder by rangements for consultation with non-governmental organiza- subsequent individual agreements. These territories are here- tions which are concerned with matters within its competence. inafter referred to as trust territories. Such arrangements may be made with international organiza- Article 76 tions and, where appropriate, with national organizations after consultation with the Member of the United Nations con- The basic objectives of the trusteeship system, in accordance cerned. with the Purposes of the United Nations laid down in Article 1 of the present Charter, shall be: Article 72 a. to further international peace and security; 1. The Economic and Social Council shall adopt its own b. to promote the political, economic, social, and educa- rules of procedure, including the method of selecting its Presi- tional advancement of the inhabitants of the trust territo- dent. ries, and their progressive development towards self- 2. The Economic and Social Council shall meet as required government or independence as may be appropriate to in accordance with its rules, which shall include provision for the particular circumstances of each territory and its the convening of meetings on the request of a majority of its peoples and the freely expressed wishes of the peoples members. concerned, and as may be provided by the terms of each trusteeship agreement; c. to encourage respect for human rights and for funda- Chapter XI mental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, DECLARATION REGARDING sex, language, or religion, and to encourage recognition NON-SELF-GOVERNING TERRITORIES of the interdependence of the peoples of the world; and d. to ensure equal treatment in social, economic, and com- Article 73 mercial matters for all Members of the United Nations Members of the United Nations which have or assume re- and their nationals, and also equal treatment for the lat- sponsibilities for the administration of territories whose peo- ter in the administration of justice, without prejudice to ples have not yet attained a full measure of self-government the attainment of the foregoing objectives and subject to recognize the principle that the interests of the inhabitants of the provisions of Article 80. these territories are paramount, and accept as a sacred trust the obligation to promote to the utmost, within the system of inter- Article 77 national peace and security established by the present Charter, 1. The trusteeship system shall apply to such territories in the well-being of the inhabitants of these territories and, to this the following categories as may be placed thereunder by end: means of trusteeship agreements:

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a. territories now held under mandate; towards the Security Council undertaken in this regard by the b. territories which may be detached from enemy states as administering authority, as well as for local defence and the a result of the Second World War; and maintenance of law and order within the trust territory. c. territories voluntarily placed under the system by states Article 85 responsible for their administration. 2. It will be a matter for subsequent agreement as to which 1. The functions of the United Nations with regard to trus- territories in the foregoing categories will be brought under the teeship agreements for all areas not designated as strategic, in- trusteeship system and upon what terms. cluding the approval of the terms of the trusteeship agreements and of their alteration or amendment, shall be exercised by the Article 78 General Assembly. The trusteeship system shall not apply to territories which 2. The TrusteeshipCouncil, operating under the authority of have become Members of the United Nations, relationship the General Assembly, shall assist the General Assembly in among which shall be based on respect for the principle of sov- carrying out these functions. ereign equality. Chapter XIII Article 79 THE TRUSTEESHIP COUNCIL The terms of trusteeship for each territory to be placed under the trusteeship system, including any alteration or amend- Composition ment, shall be agreed upon by the states directly concerned, including the mandatory power in the case of territories held Article 86 under mandate by a Member of the United Nations, and shall 1. The Trusteeship Council shall consist of the following be approved as provided for in Articles 83 and 85. Members of the United Nations: Article 80 a. those Members administering trust territories; 1. Except as may be agreed upon in individual trusteeship b. such of those Members mentioned by name in Article 23 agreements, made under Articles 77, 79 and 81, placing each as are not administering trust territories; and territory under the trusteeship system, and until such agree- c. as many other Members elected for three-year terms by ments have been concluded, nothing in this Chapter shall be the General Assembly as may be necessary to ensure construed in or of itself to alter in any manner the rights whatso- that the total number of members of the Trusteeship ever of any states or any peoples or the terms of existing inter- Council is equally divided between those Members of national instruments to which Members of the United Nations the United Nations which administer trust territories and may respectively be parties. those which do not. 2. Paragraph 1 of this Article shall not be interpreted as giv- 2. Each member of the Trusteeship Council shall designate ing grounds for delay or postponement of the negotiation and one specially qualified person to represent it therein. conclusion of agreements for placing mandated and other terri- tories under the trusteeship system as provided for in Article Functions and Powers 77. Article 87 Article 81 The General Assembly and, under its authority, the Trustee- The trusteeship agreement shall in each case include the ship Council, in carrying out their functions, may: terms under which the trust territory will be administered and a. consider reports submitted by the administering author- designate the authority which will exercise the administration ity; of the trust territory. Such authority, hereinafter called the ad- b. accept petitions and examine them in consultation with ministering authority, may be one or more states or the Organi- the administering authority; zation itself. c. provide for periodic visits to the respective trust territo- Article 82 ries at times agreed upon with the administering author- ity; and There may be designated, in any trusteeship agreement, a strategic area or areas which may include part or all of the trust d. take these and other actions in conformity with the terms territory to which the agreement applies, without prejudice to of the trusteeship agreements. any special agreement or agreements made under Article 43. Article 88 Article 83 The Trusteeship Council shall formulate a questionnaire on 1. All functions of the United Nations relating to strategic the political, economic, social, and educational advancement areas, including the approval of the terms of the trusteeship of the inhabitants of each trust territory, and the administering agreements and of their alteration or amendment, shall be ex- authority for each trust territory within the competence of the ercised by the Security Council. General Assembly shall make an annual report to the General 2. The basic objectives set forth in Article 76 shall be appli- Assembly upon the basis of such questionnaire. cable to the people of each strategic area. 3. The Security Council shall, subject to the provisions of Voting the trusteeship agreements and without prejudice to security considerations, avail itself of the assistance of the Trusteeship Article 89 Council to perform those functions of the United Nations under 1. Each member of the Trusteeship Council shall have one the trusteeship system relating to political, economic, social, vote. and educational matters in the strategic areas. 2. Decisions of the Trusteeship Council shall be made by a majority of the members present and voting. Article 84 It shall be the duty of the administering authority to ensure Procedure that the trust territory shall play its part in the maintenance of international peace and security. To this end the administering Article 90 authority may make use of volunteer forces, facilities, and as- 1. The Trusteeship Council shall adopt its own rules of pro- sistance from the trust territory in carrying out the obligations cedure, including the method of selecting its President.

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2. The Trusteeship Council shall meet as required in accord- Article 99 ance with its rules, which shall include provision for the con- The Secretary-General may bring to the attention of the vening of meetings on the request of a majority of its members. Security Council any matter which in his opinion may threaten Article 91 the maintenance of international peace and security. The Trusteeship Council shall, when appropriate, avail itself Article 100 of the assistance of the Economic and Social Council and of the specialized agencies in regard to matters with which they are 1. In the performance of their duties the Secretary-General respectively concerned. and the staff shall not seek or receive instructions from any gov- ernment or from any other authority external to the Organiza- tion. They shall refrain from any action which might reflect on Chapter XIV their position as international officials responsible only to the THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE Organization. 2. Each Member of the United Nations undertakes to re- Article 92 spect the exclusively international character of the responsibili- The International Court of Justice shall be the principal judi- ties of the Secretary-General and the staff and not to seek to in- cial organ of the United Nations. It shall function in accordance fluence them in the discharge of their responsibilities. with the annexed Statute, which is based upon the Statute of the Permanent Court of International Justice and forms an inte- Article 101 gral part of the present Charter. 1. The staff shall be appointed by the Secretary-General Article 93 under regulations established by the General Assembly. 1. All Members of the United Nations are ipso facto parties 2. Appropriate staffs shall be permanently assigned to the to the Statute of the International Court of Justice. Economic and Social Council, the Trusteeship Council, and, as 2. A state which is not a Member of the United Nations may required, to other organs of the United Nations. These staffs become a party to the Statute of the International Court of Jus- shall form a part of the Secretariat. tice on conditions to be determined in each case by the General 3. The paramount consideration in the employment of the Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. staff and in the determination of the conditions of service shall be the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, Article 94 competence, and integrity. Due regard shall be paid to the im- 1. Each Member of the United Nations undertakes to com- portance of recruiting the staff on as wide a geographical basis ply with the decision of the International Court of Justice in any as possible. case to which it is a party. 2. If any party to a case fails to perform the obligations in- Chapter XVI cumbent upon it under a judgment rendered by the Court, the other party may have recourse to the Security Council, which MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS may, if it deems necessary, make recommendations or decide upon measures to be taken to give effect to the judgment. Article 102

Article 95 1. Every treaty and every international agreement entered into by any Member of the United Nations after the present Nothing in the present Charter shall prevent Members of the Charter comes into force shall as soon as possible be registered United Nations from entrusting the solution of their differences with the Secretariat and published by it. to other tribunals by virtue of agreements already in existence 2. No party to any such treaty or international agreement or which may be concluded in the future. which has not been registered in accordance with the provi- Article 96 sions of paragraph 1 of this Article may invoke that treaty or agreement before any organ of the United Nations. 1. The General Assembly or the Security Council may re- quest the International Court of Justice to give an advisory Article 103 opinion on any legal question. 2. Other organs of the United Nations and specialized agen- In the event of a conflict between the obligations of the Mem- cies, which may at any time be so authorized by the General As- bers of the United Nations under the present Charter and their sembly, may also request advisory opinions of the Court on obligations under any other international agreement, their obli- legal questions arising within the scope of their activities. gations under the present Charter shall prevail.

Chapter XV Article 104 THE SECRETARIAT The Organization shall enjoy in the territory of each of its Members such legal capacity as may be necessary for the exer- Article 97 cise of its functions and the fulfilment of its purposes. The Secretariat shall comprise a Secretary-General and such staff as the Organization may require. The Secretary-General Article 105 shall be appointed by the General Assembly upon the recom- 1. The Organization shall enjoy in the territory of each of its mendation of the Security Council. He shall be the chief admin- Members such privileges and immunities as are necessary for istrative officer of the Organization. the fulfilment of its purposes. 2. Representatives of the Members of the United Nations Article 98 and officials of the Organization shall similarly enjoy such The Secretary-General shall act in that capacity in all meet- privileges and immunities as are necessary for the indepen- ings of the General Assembly, of the Security Council, of the dent exercise of their functions in connexion with the Organi- Economic and Social Council, and of the Trusteeship Council, zation. and shall perform such other functions as are entrusted to him 3. The General Assembly may make recommendations by these organs. The Secretary-General shall make an annual with a view to determining the details of the application of para- report to the General Assembly on the work of the Organiza- graphs 1 and 2 of this Article or may propose conventions to the tion. Members of the United Nations for this purpose.

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Chapter XVII tions including all the permanent members of the Security TRANSITIONAL SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS Council. 3. If such a conference has not been held before the tenth Article 106 annual session of the General Assembly following the coming into force of the present Charter, the proposal to call such a con- Pending the coming into force of such special agreements ference shall be placed on the agenda of that session of the referred to in Article 43 as in the opinion of the Security Coun- General Assembly, and the conference shall be held if so de- cil enable it to begin the exercise of its responsibilities under cided by a majority vote of the members of the General Assem- Article 42, the parties to the Four-Nation Declaration, signed at bly and by a vote of any seven members of the Security Council. Moscow, 30 October 1943, and France, shall, in accordance with the provisions of paragraph 5 of that Declaration, consult with one another and as occasion requires with other Mem- Chapter XIX bers of the United Nations with a view to such joint action on RATIFICATION AND SIGNATURE behalf of the Organization as may be necessary for the pur- pose of maintaining international peace and security. Article 110 Article 107 1. The present Charter shall be ratified by the signatory Nothing in the present Charter shall invalidate or preclude ac- states in accordance with their respective constitutional pro- tion, in relation to any state which during the Second World War cesses. has been an enemy of any signatory to the present Charter, 2. The ratifications shall be deposited with the Government taken or authorized as a result of that war by the Governments of the United States of America, which shall notify all the signa- having responsibility for such action. tory states of each deposit as well as the Secretary-General of the Organization when he has been appointed. 3. The present Charter shall come into force upon the de- Chapter XVIII posit of ratifications by the Republic of China, France, the Union AMENDMENTS of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Brit- ain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America, and Article 108 by a majority of the other signatory states. A protocol of the rati- Amendments to the present Charter shall come into force for fications deposited shall thereupon be drawn up by the Govern- all Members of the United Nations when they have been ment of the United States of America which shall communicate adopted by a vote of two thirds of the members of the General copies thereof to all the signatory states. Assembly and ratified in accordance with their respective con- 4. The states signatory to the present Charter which ratify it stitutional processes by two thirds of the Members of the after it has come into force will become original Members of the United Nations, including all the permanent members of the United Nations on the date of the deposit of their respective Security Council. ratifications.

Article 1094 Article 111 1. A General Conference of the Members of the United The present Charter, of which the Chinese, French, Russian, Nations for the purpose of reviewing the present Charter English, and Spanish texts are equally authentic, shall remain may be held at a date and place to be fixed by a two-thirds deposited in the archives of the Government of the United vote of the members of the General Assembly and by a vote States of America. Duly certified copies thereof shall be trans- of any nine members of the Security Council. Each Member mitted by that Government to the Governments of the other of the United Nations shall have one vote in the conference. signatory states. 2. Any alteration of the present Charter recommended IN FAITH WHEREOF the representatives of the Governments by a two-thirds vote of the conference shall take effect when of the United Nations have signed the present Charter. ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional DONE at the city of San Francisco the twenty-sixth day of processes by two thirds of the Members of the United Na- June, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five.

[1] Amended text of Article 23, which came into force on 31 August 1965. (The text of Article 23 before it was amended read as follows: 1. The Security Council shall consist of eleven Members of the United Nations. The Republic of China, France, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America shall be permanent members of the Security Council. The General Assembly shall elect six other Members of the United Nations to be non- permanent members of the Security Council, due regard being specially paid in the first instance to the contributions of Members of the United Nations to the maintenance of international peace and security and to the other purposes of the Organization, and also to equitable geographical distribution. 2. The non-permanent members of the Security Council shall be elected for a term of two years. In the first election of the non- permanent members, however, three shall be chosen for a term of one year. A retiring member shall not be eligible for immediate re-election. 3. Each member of the Security Council shall have one representative.) [2] Amended text of Article 27, which came into force on 31 August 1965. (The text of Article 27 before it was amended read as follows: 1. Each member of the Security Council shall have one vote. 2. Decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of seven members. 3. Decisions of the Security Council on all other matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of seven members including the concurring votes of the permanent members; provided that, in decisions under Chapter VI, and under paragraph 3 of Article 52, a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting.) [3] Amended text of Article 61, which came into force on 24 September 1973. (The text of Article 61 as previously amended on 31 August 1965 read as follows: 1. The Economic and Social Council shall consist of twenty-seven Members of the United Nations elected by the General Assembly. 2. Subject to the provisions of paragraph 3, nine members of the Economic and Social Council shall be elected each year for a term of three years. A retiring member shall be eligible for immediate re-election.

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3. At the first election after the increase in the membership of the Economic and Social Council from eighteen to twenty-seven members, in addition to the members elected in place of the six members whose term of office expires at the end of that year, nine additional members shall be elected. Of these nine additional members, the term of office of three members so elected shall expire at the end of one year, and of three other members at the end of two years, in accordance with arrangements made by the General Assembly. 4. Each member of the Economic and Social Council shall have one representative.) [4] Amended text of Article 109, which came into force on 12 June 1968. (The text of Article 109 before it was amended read as follows: 1. A General Conference of the Members of the United Nations for the purpose of reviewing the present Charter may be held at a date and place to be fixed by a two-thirds vote of the members of the General Assembly and by a vote of any seven members of the Security Council. Each Member of the United Nations shall have one vote in the conference. 2. Any alteration of the present Charter recommended by a two-thirds vote of the conference shall take effect when ratified in accordance with their respective constitutional processes by two thirds of the Members of the United Nations including all the permanent members of the Security Council. 3. If such a conference has not been held before the tenth annual session of the General Assembly following the coming into force of the present Charter, the proposal to call such a conference shall be placed on the agenda of that session of the General Assembly, and the conference shall be held if so decided by a majority vote of the members of the General Assembly and by a vote of any seven members of the Security Council.)

Statute of the International Court of Justice

Article 1 time, by national groups, the nomination of persons in a posi- The International Court of Justice established by the Charter of tion to accept the duties of a member of the Court. the United Nations as the principal judicial organ of the United 2. No group may nominate more than four persons, not Nations shall be constituted and shall function in accordance more than two of whom shall be of their own nationality. In no with the provisions of the present Statute. case may the number of candidates nominated by a group be more than double the number of seats to be filled.

Chapter I Article 6 ORGANIZATION OF THE COURT Before making these nominations, each national group is Article 2 recommended to consult its highest court of justice, its legal faculties and schools of law, and its national academies and na- The Court shall be composed of a body of independent tional sections of international academies devoted to the study judges, elected regardless of their nationality from among per- of law. sons of high moral character, who possess the qualifications re- quired in their respective countries for appointment to the high- Article 7 est judicial offices, or are jurisconsults of recognized 1. The Secretary-General shall prepare a list in alpha- competence in international law. betical order of all the persons thus nominated. Save as pro- Article 3 vided in Article 12, paragraph 2, these shall be the only per- sons eligible. 1. The Court shall consist of fifteen members, no two of 2. The Secretary-General shall submit this list to the Gen- whom may be nationals of the same state. eral Assembly and to the Security Council. 2. A person who for the purposes of membership in the Court could be regarded as a national of more than one state Article 8 shall be deemed to be a national of the one in which he ordinar- ily exercises civil and political rights. The General Assembly and the Security Council shall proceed independently of one another to elect the members of the Court. Article 4 Article 9 1. The members of the Court shall be elected by the Gen- eral Assembly and by the Security Council from a list of per- At every election, the electors shall bear in mind not only that sons nominated by the national groups in the Permanent the persons to be elected should individually possess the quali- Court of Arbitration, in accordance with the following provi- fications required, but also that in the body as a whole the rep- sions. resentation of the main forms of civilization and of the principal 2. In the case of Members of the United Nations not repre- legal systems of the world should be assured. sented in the Permanent Court of Arbitration, candidates Article 10 shall be nominated by national groups appointed for this pur- pose by their governments under the same conditions as 1. Those candidates who obtain an absolute majority of those prescribed for members of the Permanent Court of Ar- votes in the General Assembly and in the Security Council shall bitration by Article 44 of the Convention of The Hague of 1907 be considered as elected. for the pacific settlement of international disputes. 2. Any vote of the Security Council, whether for the election 3. The conditions under which a state which is a party to the of judges or for the appointment of members of the conference present Statute but is not a Member of the United Nations may envisaged in Article 12, shall be taken without any distinction participate in electing the members of the Court shall, in the ab- between permanent and non-permanent members of the Secu- sence of a special agreement, be laid down by the General As- rity Council. sembly upon recommendation of the Security Council. 3. In the event of more than one national of the same state obtaining an absolute majority of the votes both of the General Article 5 Assembly and of the Security Council, the eldest of these only 1. At least three months before the date of the election, the shall be considered as elected. Secretary-General of the United Nations shall address a written request to the members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration Article 11 belonging to the states which are parties to the present Statute, If, after the first meeting held for the purpose of the election, and to the members of the national groups appointed under Ar- one or more seats remain to be filled, a second and, if neces- ticle 4, paragraph 2, inviting them to undertake, within a given sary, a third meeting shall take place.

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Article 12 Article 18 1. If, after the third meeting, one or more seats still re- 1. No member of the Court can be dismissed unless, in the main unfilled, a joint conference consisting of six members, unanimous opinion of the other members, he has ceased to ful- three appointed by the General Assembly and three by the fil the required conditions. Security Council, may be formed at any time at the request 2. Formal notification thereof shall be made to the of either the General Assembly or the Security Council, for Secretary-General by the Registrar. the purpose of choosing by the vote of an absolute majority 3. This notification makes the place vacant. one name for each seat still vacant, to submit to the General Assembly and the Security Council for their respective ac- Article 19 ceptance. The members of the Court, when engaged on the business of 2. If the joint conference is unanimously agreed upon any the Court, shall enjoy diplomatic privileges and immunities. person who fulfils the required conditions, he may be in- cluded in its list, even though he was not included in the list of Article 20 nominations referred to in Article 7. Every member of the Court shall, before taking up his duties, 3. If the joint conference is satisfied that it will not be suc- make a solemn declaration in open court that he will exercise cessful in procuring an election, those members of the Court his powers impartially and conscientiously. who have already been elected shall, within a period to be fixed by the Security Council, proceed to fill the vacant seats Article 21 by selection from among those candidates who have 1. The Court shall elect its President and Vice-President for obtained votes either in the General Assembly or in the Secu- three years; they may be re-elected. rity Council. 2. The Court shall appoint its Registrar and may provide for 4. In the event of an equality of votes among the judges, the appointment of such other officers as may be necessary. the eldest judge shall have a casting vote. Article 22 Article 13 1. The seat of the Court shall be established at The Hague. 1. The members of the Court shall be elected for nine This, however, shall not prevent the Court from sitting and exer- years and may be re-elected; provided, however, that of the cising its functions elsewhere whenever the Court considers it judges elected at the first election, the terms of five judges desirable. shall expire at the end of three years and the terms of five 2. The President and the Registrar shall reside at the seat of more judges shall expire at the end of six years. the Court. 2. The judges whose terms are to expire at the end of the above-mentioned initial periods of three and six years shall Article 23 be chosen by lot to be drawn by the Secretary-General imme- 1. The Court shall remain permanently in session, except diately after the first election has been completed. during the judicial vacations, the dates and duration of which 3. The members of the Court shall continue to discharge shall be fixed by the Court. their duties until their places have been filled. Though re- 2. Members of the Court are entitled to periodic leave, the placed, they shall finish any cases which they may have be- dates and duration of which shall be fixed by the Court, having gun. in mind the distance between The Hague and the home of each 4. In the case of the resignation of a member of the Court, judge. the resignation shall be addressed to the President of the 3. Members of the Court shall be bound, unless they are on Court for transmission to the Secretary-General. This last no- leave or prevented from attending by illness or other serious tification makes the place vacant. reasons duly explained to the President, to hold themselves permanently at the disposal of the Court. Article 14 Vacancies shall be filled by the same method as that laid Article 24 down for the first election, subject to the following provision: 1. If, for some special reason, a member of the Court con- the Secretary-General shall, within one month of the occur- siders that he should not take part in the decision of a particular rence of the vacancy, proceed to issue the invitations provided case, he shall so inform the President. for in Article 5, and the date of the election shall be fixed by the 2. If the President considers that for some special reason Security Council. one of the members of the Court should not sit in a particular case, he shall give him notice accordingly. Article 15 3. If in any such case the member of the Court and the Presi- A member of the Court elected to replace a member whose dent disagree, the matter shall be settled by the decision of the term of office has not expired shall hold office for the remainder Court. of his predecessor’s term. Article 25 Article 16 1. The full Court shall sit except when it is expressly pro- 1. No member of the Court may exercise any political or ad- vided otherwise in the present Statute. ministrative function, or engage in any other occupation of a 2. Subject to the condition that the number of judges avail- professional nature. able to constitute the Court is not thereby reduced below 2. Any doubt on this point shall be settled by the decision of eleven, the Rules of the Court may provide for allowing one or the Court. more judges, according to circumstances and in rotation, to be dispensed from sitting. Article 17 3. A quorum of nine judges shall suffice to constitute the 1. No member of the Court may act as agent, counsel, or ad- Court. vocate in any case. 2. No member may participate in the decision of any case in Article 26 which he has previously taken part as agent, counsel, or advocate 1. The Court may from time to time form one or more cham- for one of the parties, or as a member of a national or international bers, composed of three or more judges as the Court may court, or of a commission of enquiry, or in any other capacity. determine, for dealing with particular categories of cases; for 3. Any doubt on this point shall be settled by the decision of example, labour cases and cases relating to transit and commu- the Court. nications.

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2. The Court may at any time form a chamber for dealing under which members of the Court and the Registrar shall have with a particular case. The number of judges to constitute such their travelling expenses refunded. a chamber shall be determined by the Court with the approval 8. The above salaries, allowances, and compensation shall of the parties. be free of all taxation. 3. Cases shall be heard and determined by the chambers provided for in this Article if the parties so request. Article 33 The expenses of the Court shall be borne by the United Article 27 Nations in such a manner as shall be decided by the General A judgment given by any of the chambers provided for in Ar- Assembly. ticles 26 and 29 shall be considered as rendered by the Court. Chapter II Article 28 The chambers provided for in Articles 26 and 29 may, with the COMPETENCE OF THE COURT consent of the parties, sit and exercise their functions else- Article 34 where than at The Hague. 1. Only states may be parties in cases before the Court. Article 29 2. The Court, subject to and in conformity with its Rules, With a view to the speedy dispatch of business, the Court may request of public international organizations information shall form annually a chamber composed of five judges which, relevant to cases before it, and shall receive such information at the request of the parties, may hear and determine cases by presented by such organizations on their own initiative. summary procedure. In addition, two judges shall be selected 3. Whenever the construction of the constituent instrument for the purpose of replacing judges who find it impossible to sit. of a public international organization or of an international con- vention adopted thereunder is in question in a case before the Article 30 Court, the Registrar shall so notify the public international or- 1. The Court shall frame rules for carrying out its functions. ganization concerned and shall communicate to it copies of all In particular, it shall lay down rules of procedure. the written proceedings. 2. The Rules of the Court may provide for assessors to sit Article 35 with the Court or with any of its chambers, without the right to vote. 1. The Court shall be open to the states parties to the pres- ent Statute. Article 31 2. The conditions under which the Court shall be open to 1. Judges of the nationality of each of the parties shall re- other states shall, subject to the special provisions contained in tain their right to sit in the case before the Court. treaties in force, be laid down by the Security Council, but in no 2. If the Court includes upon the Bench a judge of the na- case shall such conditions place the parties in a position of in- tionality of one of the parties, any other party may choose a per- equality before the Court. son to sit as judge. Such person shall be chosen preferably from 3. When a state which is not a Member of the United Na- among those persons who have been nominated as candidates tions is a party to a case, the Court shall fix the amount which as provided in Articles 4 and 5. that party is to contribute towards the expenses of the Court. 3. If the Court includes upon the Bench no judge of the na- This provision shall not apply if such state is bearing a share of tionality of the parties, each of these parties may proceed to the expenses of the Court. choose a judge as provided in paragraph 2 of this Article. Article 36 4. The provisions of this Article shall apply to the case of Arti- cles 26 and 29. In such cases, the President shall request one or, if 1. The jurisdiction of the Court comprises all cases which necessary, two of the members of the Court forming the cham- the parties refer to it and all matters specially provided for in the ber to give place to the members of the Court of the nationality of Charter of the United Nations or in treaties and conventions in the parties concerned, and, failing such, or if they are unable to force. be present, to the judges specially chosen by the parties. 2. The states parties to the present Statute may at any time 5. Should there be several parties in the same interest, they declare that they recognize as compulsory ipso facto and with- shall, for the purpose of the preceding provisions, be reckoned out special agreement, in relation to any other state accepting as one party only. Any doubt upon this point shall be settled by the same obligation, the jurisdiction of the Court in all legal dis- the decision of the Court. putes concerning: 6. Judges chosen as laid down in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of this a. the interpretation of a treaty; Article shall fulfil the conditions required by Articles 2, 17 (para- b. any question of international law; graph 2), 20, and 24 of the present Statute. They shall take part in the decision on terms of complete equality with their colleagues. c. the existence of any fact which, if established, would constitute a breach of an international obligation; Article 32 d. the nature or extent of the reparation to be made for the 1. Each member of the Court shall receive an annual salary. breach of an international obligation. 2. The President shall receive a special annual allowance. 3. The declarations referred to above may be made uncon- 3. The Vice-President shall receive a special allowance for ditionally or on condition of reciprocity on the part of several or every day on which he acts as President. certain states, or for a certain time. 4. The judges chosen under Article 31, other than members 4. Such declarations shall be deposited with the Secretary- of the Court, shall receive compensation for each day on which General of the United Nations, who shall transmit copies thereof they exercise their functions. to the parties to the Statute and to the Registrar of the Court. 5. These salaries, allowances, and compensation shall be 5. Declarations made under Article 36 of the Statute of the fixed by the General Assembly. They may not be decreased dur- Permanent Court of International Justice and which are still in ing the term of office. force shall be deemed, as between the parties to the present 6. The salary of the Registrar shall be fixed by the General Statute, to be acceptances of the compulsory jurisdiction of the Assembly on the proposal of the Court. International Court of Justice for the period which they still 7. Regulations made by the General Assembly shall fix the have to run and in accordance with their terms. conditions under which retirement pensions may be given to 6. In the event of a dispute as to whether the Court has juris- members of the Court and to the Registrar, and the conditions diction, the matter shall be settled by the decision of the Court.

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Article 37 2. The written proceedings shall consist of the communica- Whenever a treaty or convention in force provides for refer- tion to the Court and to the parties of memorials, counter- ence of a matter to a tribunal to have been instituted by the memorials and, if necessary, replies; also all papers and docu- League of Nations, or to the Permanent Court of International ments in support. Justice, the matter shall, as between the parties to the present 3. These communications shall be made through the Regis- Statute, be referred to the International Court of Justice. trar, in the order and within the time fixed by the Court. 4. A certified copy of every document produced by one Article 38 party shall be communicated to the other party. 1. The Court, whose function is to decide in accordance with 5. The oral proceedings shall consist of the hearing by the international law such disputes as are submitted to it, shall Court of witnesses, experts, agents, counsel, and advocates. apply: Article 44 a. international conventions, whether general or particu- lar, establishing rules expressly recognized by the con- 1. For the service of all notices upon persons other than the testing states; agents, counsel, and advocates, the Court shall apply direct to b. international custom, as evidence of a general practice the government of the state upon whose territory the notice has accepted as law; to be served. c. the general principles of law recognized by civilized na- 2. The same provision shall apply whenever steps are to be tions; taken to procure evidence on the spot. d. subject to the provisions of Article 59, judicial decisions Article 45 and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists of the various nations, as subsidiary means for the deter- The hearing shall be under the control of the President or, if mination of rules of law. he is unable to preside, of the Vice-President; if neither is able to 2. This provision shall not prejudice the power of the Court preside, the senior judge present shall preside. to decide a case ex aequo et bono, if the parties agree thereto. Article 46 The hearing in Court shall be public, unless the Court shall Chapter III decide otherwise, or unless the parties demand that the public PROCEDURE be not admitted.

Article 39 Article 47 1. The official languages of the Court shall be French and 1. Minutes shall be made at each hearing and signed by the English. If the parties agree that the case shall be conducted in Registrar and the President. French, the judgment shall be delivered in French. If the parties 2. These minutes alone shall be authentic. agree that the case shall be conducted in English, the judgment shall be delivered in English. Article 48 2. In the absence of an agreement as to which language The Court shall make orders for the conduct of the case, shall shall be employed, each party may, in the pleadings, use the decide the form and time in which each party must conclude its language which it prefers; the decision of the Court shall be arguments, and make all arrangements connected with the tak- given in French and English. In this case the Court shall at the ing of evidence. same time determine which of the two texts shall be considered as authoritative. Article 49 3. The Court shall, at the request of any party, authorize a The Court may, even before the hearing begins, call upon the language other than French or English to be used by that party. agents to produce any document or to supply any explanations. Formal note shall be taken of any refusal. Article 40 1. Cases are brought before the Court, as the case may be, Article 50 either by the notification of the special agreement or by a writ- The Court may, at any time, entrust any individual, body, bu- ten application addressed to the Registrar. In either case the reau, commission, or other organization that it may select, with subject of the dispute and the parties shall be indicated. the task of carrying out an enquiry or giving an expert opinion. 2. The Registrar shall forthwith communicate the applica- tion to all concerned. Article 51 3. He shall also notify the Members of the United Nations During the hearing any relevant questions are to be put to the through the Secretary-General, and also any other states enti- witnesses and experts under the conditions laid down by the tled to appear before the Court. Court in the rules of procedure referred to in Article 30.

Article 41 Article 52 1. The Court shall have the power to indicate, if it considers After the Court has received the proofs and evidence within that circumstances so require, any provisional measures which the time specified for the purpose, it may refuse to accept any ought to be taken to preserve the respective rights of either party. further oral or written evidence that one party may desire to 2. Pending the final decision, notice of the measures sug- present unless the other side consents. gested shall forthwith be given to the parties and to the Security Council. Article 53 1. Whenever one of the parties does not appear before the Article 42 Court, or fails to defend its case, the other party may call upon 1. The parties shall be represented by agents. the Court to decide in favour of its claim. 2. They may have the assistance of counsel or advocates 2. The Court must, before doing so, satisfy itself, not only before the Court. that it has jurisdiction in accordance with Articles 36 and 37, but 3. The agents, counsel, and advocates of parties before the also that the claim is well founded in fact and law. Court shall enjoy the privileges and immunities necessary to the independent exercise of their duties. Article 54 1. When, subject to the control of the Court, the agents, Article 43 counsel, and advocates have completed their presentation 1. The procedure shall consist of two parts: written and oral. of the case, the President shall declare the hearing closed.

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2. The Court shall withdraw to consider the judgment. Chapter IV 3. The deliberations of the Court shall take place in private ADVISORY OPINIONS and remain secret. Article 65 Article 55 1. The Court may give an advisory opinion on any legal 1. All questions shall be decided by a majority of the judges question at the request of whatever body may be authorized by present. or in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations to make 2. In the event of an equality of votes, the President or the such a request. judge who acts in his place shall have a casting vote. 2. Questions upon which the advisory opinion of the Court Article 56 is asked shall be laid before the Court by means of a written re- quest containing an exact statement of the question upon 1. The judgment shall state the reasons on which it is based. which an opinion is required, and accompanied by all docu- 2. It shall contain the names of the judges who have taken ments likely to throw light upon the question. part in the decision.

Article 57 Article 66 If the judgment does not represent in whole or in part the 1. The Registrar shall forthwith give notice of the request unanimous opinion of the judges, any judge shall be entitled to for an advisory opinion to all states entitled to appear before deliver a separate opinion. the Court. 2. The Registrar shall also, by means of a special and direct Article 58 communication, notify any state entitled to appear before the The judgment shall be signed by the President and by the Court or international organization considered by the Court, or, Registrar. It shall be read in open court, due notice having been should it not be sitting, by the President, as likely to be able to given to the agents. furnish information on the question, that the Court will be pre- pared to receive, within a time limit to be fixed by the President, Article 59 written statements, or to hear, at a public sitting to be held for The decision of the Court has no binding force except be- the purpose, oral statements relating to the question. tween the parties and in respect of that particular case. 3. Should any such state entitled to appear before the Court have failed to receive the special communication referred to in Article 60 paragraph 2 of this Article, such state may express a desire to sub- The judgment is final and without appeal. In the event of dis- mit a written statement or to be heard; and the Court will decide. pute as to the meaning or scope of the judgment, the Court shall 4. States and organizations having presented written or construe it upon the request of any party. oral statements or both shall be permitted to comment on the statements made by other states or organizations in the form, Article 61 to the extent, and within the time limits which the Court, or, 1. An application for revision of a judgment may be made should it not be sitting, the President, shall decide in each par- only when it is based upon the discovery of some fact of such a ticular case. Accordingly, the Registrar shall in due time com- nature as to be a decisive factor, which fact was, when the judg- municate any such written statements to states and organiza- ment was given, unknown to the Court and also the party claim- tions having submitted similar statements. ing revision, always provided that such ignorance was not due to negligence. Article 67 2. The proceedings for revision shall be opened by a judg- The Court shall deliver its advisory opinions in open court, no- ment of the Court expressly recording the existence of the new tice having been given to the Secretary-General and to the repre- fact, recognizing that it has such a character as to lay the case sentatives of Members of the United Nations, of other states and open to revision, and declaring the application admissible on of international organizations immediately concerned. this ground. 3. The Court may require previous compliance with the Article 68 terms of the judgment before it admits proceedings in revision. In the exercise of its advisory functions the Court shall further 4. The application for revision must be made at latest within be guided by the provisions of the present Statute which apply six months of the discovery of the new fact. in contentious cases to the extent to which it recognizes them to 5. No application for revision may be made after the lapse be applicable. of ten years from the date of the judgment.

Article 62 Chapter V 1. Should a state consider that it has an interest of a legal AMENDMENT nature which may be affected by the decision in the case, it may Article 69 submit a request to the Court to be permitted to intervene. 2. It shall be for the Court to decide upon this request. Amendments to the present Statute shall be effected by the same procedure as is provided by the Charter of the United Na- Article 63 tions for amendments to that Charter, subject however to any 1. Whenever the construction of a convention to which provisions which the General Assembly upon recommenda- states other than those concerned in the case are parties is in tion of the Security Council may adopt concerning the partici- question, the Registrar shall notify all such states forthwith. pation of states which are parties to the present Statute but are 2. Every state so notified has the right to intervene in the not Members of the United Nations. proceedings; but if it uses this right, the construction given by the judgment will be equally binding upon it. Article 70 The Court shall have power to propose such amendments to Article 64 the present Statute as it may deem necessary, through written Unless otherwise decided by the Court, each party shall bear communications to the Secretary-General, for consideration in its own costs. conformity with the provisions of Article 69.

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Appendix III Appendix IIl Structure of the United Nations

General Assembly

The General Assembly is composed of all the Members of the Fifth Committee3 United Nations. Chairman: John W. Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda) Vice-Chairpersons: Dariusz Manczyk (Poland), Muhammad A. SESSIONS Muhith (Bangladesh), Eric Franck Saizonou (Benin) Resumed fifty-ninth session: 14 January–12 September 2005. Rapporteur: Katja Pehrman (Finland) Resumed tenth emergency special session: 16, 19 and 20 July 2004 (suspended). Sixth Committee3 Sixtieth session: 13 September–23 December 2005 (suspended). Chairman: Mohamed Bennouna (Morocco) Vice-Chairpersons: Ram Babu Dhakal (Nepal), Carlos Fernando OFFICERS Díaz Paniagua (Costa Rica), Csaba Simon (Hungary). Resumed fifty-ninth and tenth emergency special sessions Rapporteur: Anna Sotaniemi (Finland) President: Jean Ping (Gabon). Vice-Presidents: Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Sixtieth session4 Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Belgium, Burkina Faso, China, Dji- bouti, El Salvador, France, Ghana, Iran, Kazakhstan, Nicara- First Committee gua, Russian Federation, Syrian Arab Republic, United King- Chairman: Choi Young-jin (Republic of Korea). dom, United States, Uzbekistan, Zambia. Vice-Chairmen: Gabriela Martinic (Argentina), Detlev Wolter (Germany), Lofti Bouchaara (Morocco). Sixtieth session Rapporteur: Elvina Jusufaj (Albania). President: Jan Eliasson (Sweden).1 Vice-Presidents:2 Angola, Armenia, Brazil, Central African Fourth Committee Republic, China, France, Guinea-Bissau, India, Iran, Israel, Kenya, Chairman: Yashar Aliyev (Azerbaijan). Malaysia, Mali, Myanmar, Pakistan, Paraguay, Russian Fed- Vice-Chairmen: Subhas Gujadhur (Mauritius), Amparo Anguiano eration, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States, Venezuela. Rodriguez (Mexico), Alexander Gerts (Netherlands). Rapporteur: Muhammed Shahrul Nizzam Umar (Brunei Dar- The Assembly has four types of committees: (1) Main Com- ussalam). mittees; (2) procedural committees; (3) standing committees; (4) subsidiary and ad hoc bodies. In addition, it convenes con- Second Committee ferences to deal with specific subjects. Chairman: Aminu Bashir Wali (Nigeria). Vice-Chairpersons: Selwin Charles Hart (Barbados), Juraj Koudelka (Czech Republic), Stefano Toscano (Switzerland). Main Committees Rapporteur: Abdulmalik Alshabibi (Yemen). Six Main Committees have been established as follows: Third Committee Disarmament and International Security Committee (First Chairman: Francis K. Butagira (Uganda). Committee) Vice-Chairmen: Muhammad Anshor (Indonesia), Catarina Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Com- Carvalho (Portugal), Eva Tomic (Slovenia). mittee) Rapporteur: Pedro Cardoso (Brazil). Economic and Financial Committee (Second Committee) Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee (Third Commit- Fifth Committee tee) Chairman: John W. Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda). Administrative and Budgetary Committee (Fifth Committee) Vice-Chairmen: Dariusz Manczyk (Poland), Muhammad A. Muhith Legal Committee (Sixth Committee) (Bangladesh), Eric Franck Saizonou (Benin). Rapporteur: Katja Pehrman (Finland). The General Assembly may constitute other committees, on which all Members of the United Nations have the right to be Sixth Committee represented. Chairman: Juan Antonio Yañez-Barnuevo (Spain). Vice-Chairmen: Mahmoud Hmoud (Jordan), Mahmoud Samy OFFICERS OF THE MAIN COMMITTEES (Egypt), Grzegorz Zyman (Poland). Rapporteur: Shermain Jeremy (Antigua and Barbuda). Resumed fifty-ninth session Procedural committees Fourth Committee3 Chairman: kyaw Tint Swe (Myanmar). General Committee Vice-Chairpersons: Helfried Carl (Austria), Eduardo Calderon The General Committee consists of the President of the Gen- (Ecuador), Andrej Droba (Slovakia). eral Assembly, as Chairman, the 21 Vice-Presidents and the Rapporteur: Kais Kabtani (Tunisia). Chairmen of the six Main Committees.

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Credentials Committee (which generally provide specific information on membership), The Credentials Committee consists of nine members ap- and relevant decision numbers pertaining to elections. pointed by the General Assembly on the proposal of the Pres- ident. Ad Hoc Committee on a Comprehensive and Integral International Convention on Protection and Promotion of the Rights and Dignity of Persons with Disabilities Resumed fifty-ninth session Benin, Bhutan, China, Ghana, Liechtenstein, Russian Federa- Session: Fifth, New York, 24 January–4 February tion, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Uruguay Chairman: Luis Gallegos Chiriboga (Ecuador) Session: Sixth, New York, 1–12 August Sixtieth session5 Chairman: Don MacKay (New Zealand) Cameroon, China, Panama, Portugal, Saint Lucia, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Russian Federation, United States. Membership: Open to all Member States and observers of the United Nations Reports: A/AC.265/2005/2, A/60/266 Standing committees The two standing committees consist of experts appointed in Ad Hoc Committee established by General Assembly their individual capacity for three-year terms. resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996 Session: Ninth, New York, 28 March–1 April Advisory Committee on Administrative and Chairman: Rohan Perera (Sri Lanka) Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations To serve until 31 December 2005: Homero Luis Hernandez (Do- or members of the specialized agencies or of IAEA minican Republic); Vladimir V. Kuznetsov, Chairman (Russian Report: A/60/7 Federation); Thomas Mazet (Germany); Susan M. McLurg (United States); Mounir Zahran (Egypt). Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean To serve until 31 December 2006: Andrzej T. Abraszewski (Po- Meeting: New York, 26 July land); Manlan Narcisse Ahounou (Côte d’Ivoire); Collen V. Chairman: Prasad Kariyawasam (Sri Lanka) Kelapile (Botswana); E. Besley Maycock (Barbados); Murari Membership: 43 Raj Sharma (Nepal). Report: A/60/29 To serve until 31 December 2007: Ronald Elkhuizen (Nether- lands); Jorge Flores Callejas (Honduras); Jerry Kramer (Can- Ad Hoc Committee on the Scope of Legal Protection ada); Rajat Saha, Vice-Chairman (India); Sun Minqin (China); under the Convention on the Safety of Jun Yamazaki (Japan). United Nations and Associated Personnel Session: Fourth, New York, 11-15 April On 23 November 2005 (dec. 60/410), the General Assembly Chairman: Christian Wenaweser (Liechtenstein) appointed the following for a three-year term beginning on Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations 1 January 2006 to fill the vacancies occurring on 31 December or members of the specialized agencies or of IAEA 2005: Guillermo Kendall (Argentina), Igor V. Khalevinsky Report: A/60/52 (Russian Federation), Susan M. McLurg (United States), Tommo Monthe (Cameroon), Christina Vasak (France). Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme Committee on Contributions of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination To serve until 31 December 2005: Alvaro Gurgel de Alencar and Wider Appreciation of International Law Netto (Brazil); Sergei I. Mareyev (Russian Federation); Ber- Session: Fortieth, New York, 17 October nard Meijerman (Netherlands); Hae-yun Park (Republic of Chairman: Robert Tachie-Menson (Ghana) Korea); Ugo Sessi, Chairman (Italy); Wu Gang (China). Membership: 25 To serve until 31 December 2006: Kenshiro Akimoto (Japan); Report: A/60/441 Meshal Al-Mansour (Kuwait); Petru Dumitriu (Romania); Haile Selassie Getachew (Ethiopia); Ihor V. Humenny Board of Auditors (Ukraine); David A. Leis (United States). Session: Special session, New York, 7 December To serve until 31 December 2007: David Dutton (Australia); Paul Chairman: Guillermo N. Carague (Philippines) Ekorong à Dong (Cameroon); Bernardo Greiver (Uruguay); Membership: 3 Hassan Mohammed Hassan (Nigeria); Eduardo Iglesias (Ar- Report: A/60/543 gentina); Eduardo Manuel da Fonseca Fernandes Ramos Decision: GA 60/413 (Portugal). Committee on Conferences On 6 June 2005 (dec. 59/408) the General Assembly ap- Sessions: New York, 23 March (organizational), 19-27 Septem- pointed Henrique da Silveira Sardinha Pinto (Brazil) for a six- ber (substantive) month term beginning 6 June 2005 and ending 31 December Chairman: Diego Simancas (Mexico) 2005, as a result of the resignation of Alvaro Gurgel de Alencar Membership: 21 Netto. Report: A/60/32 On 23 November 2005 (dec. 60/411), the General Assembly Decision: GA 60/407 appointed the following for a three-year term beginning on 1 January 2006 to fill the vacancies occurring on 31 December Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People 2005: Sujata Ghorai (Germany), Vyacheslav A. Logutov (Russian Federation), Richard Moon (United Kingdom), Hae- Meetings: Throughout the year yun Park (Republic of Korea), Henrique da Silveira Sardinha Chairman: Paul Badji (Senegal) Pinto (Brazil), Wu Gang (China). Membership: 23 (22 from 31 May) Report: A/60/35

Subsidiary and ad hoc bodies Committee on Information The following is a list of subsidiary and ad hoc bodies func- Session: Twenty-seventh, New York, 18-28 April tioning in 2005, including the number of members, dates of Chairman: Mihnea Ioan Motoc (Romania) meetings/sessions in 2005, document numbers of reports Membership: 107 (108 from 8 December)

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Report: A/60/21 Joint Advisory Group on the International Decision: GA 60/415 Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO Session: Thirty-eighth, Geneva, 18-22 April Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space Chairman: Sarala Fernando (Sri Lanka) Session: Forty-eighth, Vienna, 8-17 June Membership: Open to all States members of UNCTAD and all Chairman: Adigun Ade Abiodun (Nigeria) members of WTO Membership: 67 Report: ITC/AG(XXXVIII)/204 Report: A/60/20 & Corr.1 Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) Committee for Programme and Coordination (CPC) Chairman: Ion Gorita (Romania) Sessions: Forty-fifth, New York, 11 May (organizational), 6 Membership: 11 June–1 July (substantive) Report: A/61/34 Chairman: Markiyan Kulyk (Ukraine) Decision: GA 59/416 Membership: 34 Report: A/60/16 Office of the United Nations High Commissioner Decisions: ESC 2005/201 E, GA 60/405 for Refugees (UNHCR)

Committee on Relations with the Host Country EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE HIGH COMMISSIONER’S PROGRAMME Meetings: New York, 15 April, 16 July, 28 September, 28 October Chairman: Andreas D. Mavroyiannis (Cyprus) Session: Fifty-sixth, Geneva, 3-7 October Membership: 19 (including the United States as host country) Chairman: Juan Martabit (Chile) Report: A/60/26 Membership: 61 Report: A/60/12/Add.1 Committee for the United Nations Population Award Decision: GA/60/129, GA/59/420 Meetings: New York, 7 May, 7 June Chairman: Judith Mbula Bahemuka (Kenya) High Commissioner: Antônio Manuel de Oliveira Gutterres6 Membership: 10 (plus 5 honorary members, the Secretary- General and the UNFPA Executive Director) Panel of External Auditors Report: A/60/397 Membership: Members of the UN Board of Auditors and the appointed external auditors of the specialized agencies and Disarmament Commission IAEA Session: New York, 18-26 July (organizational) (resumed) Chairman: Sylvester Ekundayo Rowe (Sierra Leone) Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on Membership: All UN Members the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization Reports: A/60/42 Meeting: New York, 14-18 March Chairman: Andreas D. Mavroyiannis (Cyprus) High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations Cooperation among Developing Countries Report: A/60/33 Sessions: Organizational, New York, 10 May; fourteenth, New York, 31 May–3 June Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices President: Eladio Loizaga (Paraguay) Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People Membership: All States participating in UNDP and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories Report: A/60/39 Meetings: Geneva, 18-25 March and 24 June; Cairo, Egypt, 25 June–1 July; Amman, Jordan, 1-5 July; Damascus, Syrian International Civil Service Commission (ICSC) Arab Republic, 5-9 July Sessions: Sixtieth, Bangkok, Thailand, 8 February–11 March; Chairperson: Bernard A. B. Goonetilleke (Sri Lanka) (March), sixty-first, New York, 11-22 July Prasad Kariyawasam (Sri Lanka) (April) Chairman: Mohsen Bel Hadj Amor (Tunisia) Membership: 3 Membership: 15 Report: A/60/380 Report: A/60/30 Decision: GA 60/414 Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations Meetings: New York, 31 January–25 February; 4-8 April Chairperson: Aminu Bashir Wali (Nigeria) ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON POST ADJUSTMENT QUESTIONS Membership: 117 Session: Twenty-seventh, New York, 17-25 January Report: A/59/19/Rev.1 Chairman: Eugeniusz Wyzner (Poland) Membership: 6 Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of International Law Commission Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples Session: Fifty-seventh, Geneva, 2 May–3 June and 11 July– Session: New York, 17 February and 11 March (first part), 6, 7, 8, 5 August 13, 15, 16, 20 and 24 June (second part) Chairman: Djamchid Momtaz (Iran) Chairman: Julian Robert Hunte (Saint Lucia) Membership: 34 Membership: 27 Report: A/60/10 Report: A/60/23

Investments Committee United Nations Administrative Tribunal Meetings: New York, 7 February, 9 May, 12 September, 21 No- Sessions: Geneva, 20 June–22 July; New York, 24 October–23 vember November Chairman: William J. McDonough (United States) President: Julio Barboza (Argentina) Membership: 9 Membership: 7 Decision: GA 60/412 Report: A/INF/60/5

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United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) Membership: Open to all States members of UNCTAD Report: TD/B/COM.1/73 & Corr.1 EXECUTIVE BOARD The UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board acts as the Executive WORKING PARTY ON THE Board of the Fund. MEDIUM-TERM PLAN AND THE PROGRAMME BUDGET Sessions: Forty-fourth, Geneva, 31 January–2 February and 30- Managing Director: Mark Malloch Brown (UNDP Administra- 31 May; forty-fifth, Geneva, 12-15 September tor) (until 13 August), Kemal Dervis (from 14 August) Chairperson: Enrique Manalo (Philippines) (forty-fourth ses- United Nations Commission on International sion), Dmitri Godunov (Russian Federation) (forty-fifth ses- Trade Law (UNCITRAL) sion) Session: Thirty-eighth, Vienna, 4-15 July Membership: Open to all States members of UNCTAD Chairman: Jorge Pinzón Sánchez (Colombia) Reports: TD/B/WP/179, TD/B/WP/183, TD/B/WP/184 Membership: 60 United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) Report: A/60/17 CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine Session: Forty-fifth, New York, 17-18 February Membership: 3 Chairperson: Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein (Jordan) Report: A/60/277 Membership: 5 United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) Executive Director of UNIFEM: Noeleen Heyzer Session: Did not meet in 2005 Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) or members of the specialized agencies or of IAEA Decision: GA 59/419 GOVERNING COUNCIL Session: Twenty-third, Nairobi, Kenya Secretary-General of UNCTAD: Supachai Panitchpakdi (Thai- President: Rachmat Witoelar (Indonesia) land)7 Membership: 58 Report: A/60/25 TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD Sessions: Thirty-sixth executive, 3 May; twenty-second special, Executive Director of UNEP: Klaus Töpfer 18 July; thirty-seventh executive, 26 July; fifty-second, 3-14 October; all in Geneva United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) President: Mary Whelan (Ireland) (thirty-sixth and thirty- seventh executive and twenty-second special sessions), GOVERNING COUNCIL Ransford A. Smith (Jamaica) (fifty-second session) Session: Twentieth, Nairobi, Kenya, 4-8 April Membership: Open to all States members of UNCTAD President: Petr Kopriva (Czech Republic) Report: A/60/15 Membership: 58 Report: A/60/8 SUBSIDIARY ORGANS OF THE Decisions: GA 60/406 TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD Executive Director of UN-Habitat: Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka COMMISSION ON ENTERPRISE, BUSINESS FACILITATION AND DEVELOPMENT United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) Session: Ninth, Geneva, 22-25 February Chairperson: Sarala Fernando (Sri Lanka) BOARD OF TRUSTEES Membership: Open to all States members of UNCTAD Sessions: Forty-fourth, New York, 23-25 February; forty-fifth, Report: TD/B/COM.3/70 Geneva, 29 June–1 July Chairman: Vicente Berasategui (Argentina) COMMISSION ON INVESTMENT, Membership: 24, plus 1 ex-officio member (Director of UNIDIR) TECHNOLOGY AND RELATED FINANCIAL ISSUES Report: A/60/285 Session: Ninth, Geneva, 7-11 March President: Love Mtesa (Zambia) Director of UNIDIR: Patricia Lewis Membership: Open to all States members of UNCTAD Deputy Director: Christophe Carle Report: TD/B/COM.2/66 United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) Intergovernmental Group of Experts BOARD OF TRUSTEES on Competition Law and Policy Session: Forty-third, Geneva, 26-27 April Session: Did not meet in 2005 Chairman: Omar Hilale (Morocco) Membership: Open to all States members of UNCTAD Membership: 20, plus 4 ex-officio members Report: A/60/304 Intergovernmental Working Group of Experts on Executive Director of UNITAR: Marcel A. Boisard International Standards of Accounting and Reporting Session: Twenty-second, Geneva, 21-23 November United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board Chairperson: Aziz Dieye (Senegal) Session: Did not meet in 2005 Membership: 34 Membership: 33 Report: TD/B/COM.2/ISAR/31 Decisions: ESC 2005/201 C & E United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) COMMISSION ON TRADE IN GOODS AND SERVICES, AND COMMODITIES ADVISORY COMMISSION OF UNRWA Session: Ninth, Geneva, 4-18 March Meeting: Amman, Jordan, 26 September Chairperson: Dacio Castillo (Honduras) Chairperson: Rana Mokadden (Lebanon)

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Membership: 10 United Nations Voluntary Fund for Indigenous Populations Report: A/60/13 Decision: GA 60/522 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Session: Eighteenth, Geneva, 28 February–4 March WORKING GROUP ON THE FINANCING OF UNRWA Chairperson: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (Philippines) Meetings: New York, 8 September and 18 October Membership: 5 Chairman: Baki Ilkin (Turkey) Report: E/CN.4/Sub.2/AC.4/2005/5 Membership: 9 Report: A/60/439 United Nations Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture

Commissioner-General of UNRWA: Peter Hansen (until 31 BOARD OF TRUSTEES March), Karen Koning AbuZayd (from 28 June) Session: Twenty-fourth, Geneva, 13-22 April Deputy Commissioner-General: Filippo Grandi (from 25 Sep- Chairman: Ivan Tosevski (The former Yugoslav Republic of tember) Macedonia) Membership: 5 United Nations Scientific Committee on Report: A/60/215 the Effects of Atomic Radiation Session: Fifty-third, Vienna, 26-30 September United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Chairman: Yasuhito Sasaki (Japan) Contemporary Forms of Slavery Membership: 21 Report: A/60/46 BOARD OF TRUSTEES Session: Tenth, Geneva, 7-11 March United Nations Staff Pension Committee Chairperson: Cheikh Saad-Bouh Kamara (Mauritania) Meetings: New York, 18 May and 7 December Membership: 5 Chairperson: Jean-Michel Jakobowicz (France) Report: A/60/273 Membership: 12 (plus 8 alternates)

United Nations University (UNU) Conference World Summit on the Information Society COUNCIL OF THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY Session: Tunis, Tunisia, 16-18 November (second phase) Session: Fifty-second, Tokyo, Japan, 5-9 December President: Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (Tunisia) Chairperson: Vappu Taipale (Finland) Attendance: 174 States, European Community, regional com- Membership: 24 (plus 3 ex-officio members and the UNU Rec- missions, UN bodies and programmes, regional organizations, tor) specialized agencies, intergovernmental organizations, non- governmental organizations and business entities Rector of the University: Hans J.A. van Ginkel Report: WSIS-05/TUNIS/DOC/9 (Rev.1)-E

Security Council

The Security Council consists of 15 Member States of the United Nations, in accordance with the provisions of Article 23 Month Member Representative of the United Nations Charter as amended in 1965. April China Wang Guangya MEMBERS Zhang Yishan Permanent members: China, France, Russian Federation, May Denmark Ellen Margrethe Log United Kingdom, United States. Lars Faaborg-Andersen Non-permanent members: Algeria, Argentina, Benin, Brazil, Per Stig Moller Denmark, Greece, Japan, Philippines, Romania, the United Republic of Tanzania. June France Jean-Marc de la Sablière Michel Duclos On 10 October 2005 (dec. 60/403), the General Assembly Brigitte Collet elected the Congo, Ghana, Peru, Qatar and Slovakia for a two- July Greece Adamantios Th. Vassilakis year term beginning on 1 January 2006, to replace Algeria, Petros Molyviatis Benin, Brazil, Philippines and Romania whose terms of office August Japan Kenzo Oshima were to expire on 31 December 2005. September Philippines Lauro L. Baja PRESIDENT Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo The presidency of the Council rotates monthly, according to Alberto G. Romulo the English alphabetical listing of its member States. The fol- Bayani S. Mercado lowing served as President during 2005: October Romania Mihnea Ioan Motoc Mihai-Razvan Ungureanu Month Member Representative Gheorghe Dumitru November Russian Federation Andrey I. Denisov January Argentina Cesar Mayoral December United Kingdom Sir Emyr Jones Parry Rafeal Antonio Bielsa Adam Thomson February Benin Joel W. Adechi Huw Llewellyn Rogatien Biaou Vanessa Howe-Jones March Brazil Ronaldo Mota Sardenberg Paul Johnston

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Military Staff Committee United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) The Military Staff Committee consists of the chiefs of staff of the permanent members of the Security Council or their repre- Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of sentatives. It meets fortnightly. Mission: Soren Jessen-Petersen Principal Deputy Special Representative: Lawrence Rossin Deputy Special Representative for Police and Justice: Jean Standing committees Dussourd (from 18 February) Each of the three standing committees of the Security Coun- Deputy Special Representative for Reconstruction: Joachim cil is composed of representatives of all Council members: Rücker (from February) Deputy Special Representative for Institutional Building: Committee of Experts (to examine the provisional rules of pro- Werner Wnendt (from April) cedure of the Council and any other matters entrusted to it by the Council) United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL)8 Committee on the Admission of New Members Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Committee on Council Meetings Away from Headquarters Mission: Daudi Ngelautwa Mwakawago Deputy Special Representative: José Vitor da Silva Angelo Force Commander: Major General Sajjad Akram Subsidiary bodies United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) Republic of the Congo (MONUC) Chairman: Andrey I. Denisov (Russian Federation) (until March), Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Chief of Ellen Margrethe Log (Denmark) (from April) Mission: William Lacy Swing Deputy Special Representatives: Ross Mountain, Haile United Nations Compensation Commission Menkerios (from October) Executive Secretary: Rolf Goran Knutsson Force Commander: Major General Samaila Iliya (until Febru- ary) Lieutenant General Babacar Gaye (from March) United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Acting Executive Chairman: Demetrius Perricos Special Envoy for Ethiopia and Eritrea: Lloyd Axworthy (until 16 August) 1540 Committee Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Legwaila Jo- Chairman: Mihnea Ioan Motoc (Romania) seph Legwaila Deputy Special Representatives: Joël W. Adechi (from 25 May), Peacekeeping operations Azouz Ennifar (from 29 July) Force Commander: Major General Rajender Singh United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO) 9 Chief of Staff: Brigadier General Clive William Lilley United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor (UNMISET) Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of United Nations Military Observer Group Mission: Sukehiro Hasegawa in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) Force Commander: Lieutenant General Khairuddin Mat Yusof Chief Military Observer: Major General Guido Palmieri (until Sep- Chief Military Observer: Brigadier General Pedro Rocha Pena tember), Major General Draguyin Repinc (from December) Madeira

United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP) United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Michael Moller Mission: Jacques Paul Klein (until April), Alan Claude Doss Force Commander: Major General Herbert Joaquin Figoli (from 15 August) Almandos Deputy Special Representatives: Abou Moussa (until July), Steinar Bjornsson (from 10 January), Luiz Carlos da Costa United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) (from 17 August) Force Commander: Major General Bala Nanda Sharma Force Commander: Lieutenant General Joseph Olorungbon Owonibi United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for Southern United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI) Lebanon: Geir O. Pedersen Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Force Commander: Major General Alain Pellegrini Mission: Albert Tévoédjré (until March), Pierre Schori (from 1 April) United Nations Mission for the Referendum Principal Deputy Special Representative: Alan Claude Doss (un- in Western Sahara (MINURSO) til July), Abou Moussa (From 17 August) Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General: Peter van Walsum Force Commander: Major General Abdoulaye Fall Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Alvaro de Soto (until August), Francesco Bastagli United Nations Operation in Burundi (ONUB) (from 1 September) Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Chief of Force Commander: Major General Gyorgy Száraz (until 11 Au- Mission: Carolyn McAskie gust), Brigadier General Kurt Mosgaard (from 12 September) Deputy Special Representatives: Ibrahima Fall, Nureldin Satti Force Commander: Major General Derrick Mbuyiselo Mgwebi United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) Mission: Heidi Tagliavini Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Juan Gabriel Chief Military Observer: Major General Hussein Ahmed Eissa Valdés Ghobashi (until July), Major General Niaz Muhammad Khan Principal Deputy Special Representative: Hocine Medili Khattak (from 13 August) Deputy Special Representative: Adama Guindo

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Force Commander: Lieutenant General Augusto Heleno Ribeiro tine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority: Pereira (until 1 September), Lieutenant General Urano Terje Roed-Larsen (until 2 January), Alvaro de Soto (from 6 Teixeira da Matta Bacellar (from 2 September) May)

10 United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) United Nations Peace-building Office in the Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Central African Republic (BONUCA) Mission: Jan Pronk Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of BONUCA: Deputy Special Representatives: Taye-Brook Zerihoun, Manuel General Lamine Cissé Aranda da Silva Force Commander: Major General Fazle Elahi Akbar United Nations Tajikistan Office of Peace-building (UNTOP) Representative of the Secretary-General: Vladimir Sotirov Political, peace-building and other missions Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General United Nations Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS) for West Africa Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNPOS: Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Ahmedou Winston A. Tubman (until March), François Lonseny Fall Ould-Abdallah (from 3 May)

Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) for the Great Lakes Region Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Special Representative: Ibrahima Fall UNAMA: Jean Arnault Deputy Special Representatives: Ameerah Haq, Filippo Grandi United Nations Observer Mission in Bougainville (UNOMB)11 (until 15 September) Head of Mission: Tor Stenbock

United Nations Peace-building Support Office in United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) Guinea-Bissau (UNOGBIS) Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq: Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of UNOGBIS: Ashraf Jehangir Qazi Joao Bernardo Honwana United Nations Office in Timor-Leste (UNOTIL)12 Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East (UNSCO) Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process and Per- Mission: Sukehiro Hasegawa (from 21 May) sonal Representative of the Secretary-General to the Pales- Deputy Special Representative: Anis Bajwa (from 15 August)

Economic and Social Council

The Economic and Social Council consists of 54 Member States Special high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions of the United Nations, elected by the General Assembly, each and the World Trade Organization: New York, 18 April. for a three-year term, in accordance with the provisions of Arti- Substantive session of 2005: New York, 29 June–27 July. cle 61 of the United Nations Charter as amended in 1965 and Resumed substantive session of 2005: New York, 21 October. 1973. OFFICERS MEMBERS President: Munir Akram (Pakistan). To serve until 31 December 2005: Azerbaijan, Benin, Congo, Vice-Presidents: Luis Gallegos Chiriboga (Ecuador), Johan Cuba, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Jamaica, C. Verbeke (Belgium), Ali Hachani (Tunisia), Agim Nesho (Al- Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mozambique, Nicaragua, Saudi bania). Arabia, Senegal, Turkey. To serve until 31 December 2006: Armenia, Bangladesh, Bel- Subsidiary and other related organs gium, Belize, Canada, Colombia, Indonesia, Italy, Mauritius, Namibia, Nigeria, Panama, Poland, Republic of Korea, Tuni- SUBSIDIARY ORGANS sia, United Arab Emirates, United Republic of Tanzania, United States. The Economic and Social Council may, at each session, set up To serve until 31 December 2007: Albania, Australia, Brazil, committees or working groups, of the whole or of limited mem- Chad, China, Costa Rica, Democratic Republic of the Congo, bership, and refer to them any item on the agenda for study and Denmark, Guinea, Iceland, India, Lithuania, Mexico, Pakistan, report. Russian Federation, South Africa, Thailand, United Kingdom. Other subsidiary organs reporting to the Council consist of functional commissions, regional commissions, standing com- mittees, expert bodies and ad hoc bodies. On 17 October 2005 (dec. 60/404), the General Assembly The inter-agency United Nations System Chief Executives elected the following for a three-year term beginning on 1 Jan- Board for Coordination also reports to the Council. uary 2006 to fill the vacancies occurring on 31 December 2005: Angola, Austria, Benin, Cuba, the Czech Republic, France, Ger- many, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Japan, Madagascar, Mau- Functional commissions ritania, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Turkey. Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice SESSIONS Session: Fourteenth, Vienna, 23-27 May Organizational session for 2005: New York, 19 January, 4 Feb- Chairman: Oscar Cabello Sarubbi (Paraguay) ruary and 1 and 31 March. Membership: 40 Resumed organizational session for 2005: New York, 27-28 Report: E/2005/30 April and 9 June. Decision: ESC 2005/201 C

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Commission on Human Rights Regional commissions Sessions: Sixty-first, Geneva, 17 January and 14 March–22 April Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Chairperson: Makarim Wibisono (Indonesia) Session: Thirty-eighth session of the Commission/Conference Membership: 53 of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic De- Report: E/2005/23 velopment, Abuja, Nigeria, 14-15 May Decision: ESC 2005/201 C Chairman: Ngozi Okonjolweala (Nigeria) Membership: 53 SUBCOMMISSION ON THE PROMOTION Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) AND PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS Session: Sixtieth, Geneva, 22-25 February Session: Fifty-seventh, Geneva, 25 July–12 August Chairman: Wolfgang Petritsch (Austria) Chairperson: Vladimir Kartashkin (Russian Federation) Membership: 55 Membership: 26 Report: E/2005/37 Report: E/CN.4/2006/2 Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) Commission on Narcotic Drugs Session: Did not meet in 2005 Session: Forty-eighth, Vienna, 7-11 March Membership: 41 members, 7 associate members Chairperson: Sheel Kant Sharma (India) Membership: 53 Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Report: E/2005/28 Session: Sixty-first, Bangkok, Thailand, 12-18 May Chairperson: Kassymzhomart Tokaev (Kazakhstan) Decision: ESC 2005/201 C Membership: 53 members, 9 associate members Report: E/2005/39 Commission on Population and Development Session: Thirty-eighth, New York, 4-8 and 14 April Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) Chairman: Crispin Grey-Johnson (Gambia) Session: Twenty-third, Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic, 9-12 Membership: 47 May Report: E/2005/25 Chairman: Abdallah Al-Dardari (Syrian Arab Republic) Decisions: ESC 2005/201 B & C Membership: 13 Report: E/2005/41 Commission on Science and Technology for Development Session: Eighth, Geneva, 23-27 May Standing committees Chairman: Bernd Michael Rode (Austria) Membership: 33 Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations Report: E/2005/31 Session: New York, 5-14 January Chairperson: Paimaneh Hasteh (Iran) Commission for Social Development Membership: 19 Session: Forty-third, New York, 9-18 February Report: E/2005/32 (Part I) Chairperson: Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo (South Africa) Membership: 46 Committee for Programme and Coordination (CPC) Report: E/2005/26 Sessions: Forty-fifth, New York, 11 May (organizational), 6 June– 1 July (substantive) Commission on the Status of Women Chairman: Markiyan Kulyk (Ukraine) Membership: 34 Session: Forty-ninth, New York, 28 February–11 and 22 March Report: A/60/16 Chairperson: Kyung-wha Kang (Republic of Korea) Decisions: ESC 2005/201 C & E, GA 60/405 Membership: 45 Report: E/2005/27 Decision: ESC 2005/201 C Expert bodies

Committee of Experts on International Commission on Sustainable Development Cooperation in Tax Matters Session: Thirteenth, New York, 11-22 April Session: First, Geneva, 5-9 December Chairperson: John William Ashe (Antigua and Barbuda) Chairman: Noureddine Bensouda (Morocco) Membership: 53 Membership: 25 Report: E/2005/29 Report: E/2005/45 Decision: ESC 2005/201 C Decision: ESC 2005/201 E

Statistical Commission Committee for Development Policy Session: Thirty-sixth, New York, 1-4 March Session: Seventh, New York, 14-18 March Chairman: Katherine Wallman (United States) Chairperson: Suchitra Punyaratabandhu (Thailand) Membership: 24 Membership: 24 Report: E/2005/33 Report: E/2005/24 Decision: ESC 2005/201 A Decision: ESC 2005/201 C Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights United Nations Forum on Forests Sessions: Thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth, Geneva, 25 April–13 Session: Fifth, Geneva, 16-27 May May and 7-25 November Chairman: Manuel Rodriguez Becerra (Colombia) Chairperson: Virginia Bonoan-Dandan (Philippines) Membership: Open to all States Members of the United Nations Membership: 18 and members of the specialized agencies Report: E/2006/22 Report: E/2005/42 & Corr.1 Decision: ESC 2005/201 C

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Committee of Experts on Public Administration Membership: 22 Session: Fourth, New York, 4-8 April Reports: UNAIDS/PCB(17)/05.10, UNAIDS/PCB(18)/06.18 Chairperson: Apolo Nsibambi (Uganda) Decisions: ESC 2005/201 C & D Membership: 24 Report: E/2005/44 Executive Director of UNAIDS: Dr. Peter Piot Decision: ESC 2005/201 E United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification EXECUTIVE BOARD and Labelling of Chemicals Sessions: First and second regular, New York, 17-20 and 24 Jan- Session: Did not meet in 2005 uary, 28-30 September; annual, New York, 6-10 June Membership: 35 President: Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi (Iran) Decision: ESC 2005/201 C Membership: 36 Report: E/2005/34/Rev.1 Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Decision: ESC 2005/201 C Session: Fourth, New York, 16-27 May Chairperson: Victoria Tauli-Corpuz (Philippines) Executive Director of UNICEF: Carol Bellamy (until April), Ann Membership: 16 M. Veneman (from 1 May) Report: E/2005/43 United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)/ United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Session: Did not meet in 2005 Membership: Representatives of the 22 geographical/linguistic EXECUTIVE BOARD divisions of the Group of Experts Sessions: First and second regular, and annual, New York, 20-28 January, 6-9 September; 13-24 June President: Carmen María Gallardo Hernández (El Salvador) Ad hoc body Membership: 36 Report: E/2005/35 Decision: ESC 2005/201 C United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination Administrator of UNDP: Mark Malloch Brown (until 13 August), Sessions: Mont Pèlerin, Switzerland, 9 April; New York, 28 Oc- Kemal Dervis (from 14 August) tober Associate Administrator: Zéphirin Diabré Chairman: The Secretary-General Executive Director of UNFPA: Thoraya Ahmed Obaid Membership: Organizations of the UN system Reports: CEB/2005/1, CEB/2005/2 United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)

BOARD Other related bodies Session: Forty-third, Geneva, 31 March Chairperson: Emma Rothschild (United Kingdom) International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW) Membership: 11 (plus 7 ex-officio members) Decision: ESC 2005/236 EXECUTIVE BOARD Session: Second, New York, 1 June, 31 October Director of UNRISD: Thandika Mkandawire President: Juan Antonio Yáñez-Barnuevo Membership: 10 (plus 8 ex-officio members) World Food Programme (WFP) Report: E/2005/75, INSTRAW/EB/2005/R.7 EXECUTIVE BOARD Sessions: First and second regular, Rome, Italy, 31 January– Director of INSTRAW: Carmen Moreno 2 February, 7-11 November; annual, Rome, 6-10 June Joint United Nations Programme on Human Immunodeficiency President: Poul Skytte Christoffersen (Denmark) Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (UNAIDS) Membership: 36 Report: E/2006/36 PROGRAMME COORDINATING BOARD Decisions: ESC 2005/201 C Meeting: Seventeenth, Geneva, 27-29 June Chairperson: Carlos Amtpmp da Rocha Paranhos (Brazil) Executive Director of WFP: James T. Morris

Trusteeship Council13

Article 86 of the United Nations Charter lays down that the As many other members elected for a three-year term by the Trusteeship Council shall consist of the following: General Assembly as will ensure that the membership of the Council is equally divided between United Nations Members Members of the United Nations administering Trust Terri- that administer Trust Territories and those that do not. tories; Permanent members of the Security Council that do not admin- Members: China, France, Russian Federation, United Kingdom, ister Trust Territories; United States.

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International Court of Justice

Judges of the Court made under the Statute of the Permanent Court of International The International Court of Justice consists of 15 Judges Justice and deemed to be an acceptance of the jurisdiction of elected for nine-year terms by the General Assembly and the the International Court) were in force at the end of 2005: Security Council. Australia, Austria, Barbados, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, The following were the Judges of the Court serving in 2005, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Costa Rica, Côte d’Ivoire, Cyprus, listed in the order of precedence: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Dominican Repub- End of lic, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, Gambia, Georgia, Greece, Guinea, Judge Country of nationality term14 Guinea-Bissau, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Japan, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Ma- Shi Jiuyong, President China 2012 lawi, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Nauru, Netherlands, New Zea- Raymond Ranjeva, Vice- Madagascar 2009 land, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, President Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Senegal, Serbia and Monte- Abdul G. Koroma Sierra Leone 2012 negro, Slovakia, Somalia, Spain, Sudan, Suriname, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Togo, Uganda, United Kingdom, Uruguay. Vladlen S. Vereshchetin Russian Federation 2006 Rosalyn Higgins United Kingdom 2009 United Nations organs and specialized and related agencies Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren Venezuela 2009 authorized to request advisory opinions from the Court Pieter H. Kooijmans Netherlands 2006 Authorized by the United Nations Charter to request opinions on any legal question: General Assembly, Security Council. Francisco Rezek Brazil 2006 Authorized by the General Assembly in accordance with the Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh Jordan 2009 Charter to request opinions on legal questions arising within Thomas Buergenthal United States 2006 the scope of their activities: Economic and Social Council, Nabil Elaraby Egypt 2006 Trusteeship Council, Interim Committee of the General As- Hisashi Owada Japan 2012 sembly, ILO, FAO, UNESCO, ICAO, WHO, World Bank, IFC, IDA, IMF, ITU, WMO, IMO, WIPO, IFAD, UNIDO, IAEA. Bruno Simma Germany 2012 Peter Tomka Slovakia 2012 Committees of the Court Ronny Abraham France 2009 BUDGETARY AND ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE Registrar: Philippe Couvreur Members: Shi Jiuyong (ex officio) (Chair), Raymond Ranjeva Deputy Registrar: Jean-Jacques Arnaldez (ex officio), Abdul G. Koroma, Vladlen S. Vereshchetin, Pieter H. Kooijmans, Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, Thomas Chamber of Summary Procedure Buergenthal Members: Shi Jiuyong (ex officio), Raymond Ranjeva (ex officio), Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren, Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, Thomas COMMITTEE ON RELATIONS Buergenthal Members: Gonzalo Parra-Aranguren (Chair), Francisco Rezek, Substitute members: Nabil Elaraby, Hisashi Owada Awn Shawkat Al-Khasawneh, Hisashi Owada

Chamber for Environmental Matters COMPUTERIZATION COMMITTEE Members: Shi Jiuyong (ex officio), Raymond Ranjeva (ex Members: Raymond Ranjeva (Chair); open to all interested officio), Pieter H. Kooijmans, Francisco Rezek, Nabil Elaraby, members of the Court Bruno Simma, Peter Tomka

Parties to the Court’s Statute LIBRARY COMMITTEE All Members of the United Nations are ipso facto parties to Members: Abdul G. Koroma (Chair), Pieter H. Kooijmans, Fran- the Statute of the International Court of Justice. cisco Rezek, Thomas Buergenthal, Peter Tomka

States accepting the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court RULES COMMITTEE Declarations made by the following States, a number with Members: Rosalyn Higgins (Chair), Nabil Elaraby, Hisashi reservations, accepting the Court’s compulsory jurisdiction (or Owada, Bruno Simma, Peter Tomka, Ronny Abraham

Other United Nations–related bodies

The following bodies are not subsidiary to any principal organ of Membership: 23 the United Nations but were established by an international Report: A/60/38 treaty instrument or arrangement sponsored by the United Nations and are thus related to the Organization and its work. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) These bodies, often referred to as “treaty organs”, are serviced Sessions: Sixty-sixth and sixty-seventh, Geneva, 21 February– by the United Nations Secretariat and may be financed in part or 11 March and 2-19 August wholly from the Organization’s regular budget, as authorized by Chairperson: Mario Jorge Yutzis (Argentina) the General Assembly, to which most of them report annually. Membership: 18 Report: A/60/18 Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) Committee on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers Sessions: Thirty-second and thirty-third, New York, 10-28 Jan- and Members of Their Families uary and 5-22 July Session: Second, Geneva, 25-29 April Chairperson: Rosario Manalo (Philippines) Chairperson: Prasad Kariyawasam (Sri Lanka)

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Membership: 10 President: Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Paki- Report: A/60/48 stan, Peru (successively) Membership: 65 Committee on the Rights of the Child Report: A/60/27 Sessions: Thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth and fortieth, Geneva, 10-28 January, 17 May–3 June and 12-30 September Human Rights Committee Chairperson: Jakob Egbert Doek (Netherlands) Sessions: Eighty-third, eighty-fourth and eighty-fifth, New Membership: 10 York, 14 March–1 April, Geneva, 11-29 July and 17 October–3 Reports: CRC/C/146, CRC/C/150, CRC/C/153 November Chairperson: Christine Chanet (France) Committee against Torture Membership: 18 Sessions: Thirty-fourth and thirty-fifth, Geneva, 2-20 May and 7-25 November Reports: A/60/40, vol. I Chairperson: Fernando Mariño (Spain) International Narcotics Control Board (INCB) Membership: 10 Reports: A/60/44 Sessions: Eighty-second, eighty-third and eighty-fourth, Vi- enna, 31 January–4 February, 2-13 May, and 1-18 November Conference on Disarmament President: Philip Onagewele Emafo Meetings: Geneva, 24 January–1 April, 30 May–15 July, 8 Au- Membership: 13 gust–23 September Report: E/INCB/2005/1

Principal members of the United Nations Secretariat

(as at 31 December 2005)

Secretariat Department of Economic and Social Affairs The Secretary-General: Kofi A. Annan Under-Secretary-General: José Antonio Ocampo Deputy Secretary-General: Louise Fréchette Assistant Secretary-General, Special Adviser on Gender Issues and Advancement of Women: Rachel Mayanja Executive Office of the Secretary-General Assistant Secretary-General: Patrizio M. Civili Under-Secretary-General, Chef de Cabinet: Mark Malloch Brown Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser to the Secretary- Department for General Assembly and Conference Management General: Lakhdar Brahimi Under-Secretary-General: Jian Chen Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Chef de Cabinet: Elisa- Assistant Secretary-General: Angela Kane (until November) beth Lindenmayer (until 8 February) Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Planning: Robert Orr Department of Public Information Under-Secretary-General for Communications and Public In- Office of Internal Oversight Services formation: Shashi Tharoor Under-Secretary-General: Dileep Nair (until 23 April), Inga-Britt Ahlenius (from 15 July) Department of Management Under-Secretary-General: Catherine Bertini (until 30 April), Office of Legal Affairs Christopher Bancroft Burnham (from 1 June) Under-Secretary-General, Legal Counsel: Nicolas Michel Assistant Secretary-General: Ralph Zacklin OFFICE OF PROGRAMME PLANNING, BUDGET AND ACCOUNTS Assistant Secretary-General, Controller: Jean-Pierre Halbwachs Department of Political Affairs (until February), Warren Sach (from 20 April) Under-Secretary-General: Kieran Prendergast (until 30 June), Ibrahim Gambari (from 1 July) OFFICE OF HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director, Counter- Assistant Secretary-General: Rosemary McCreery (until July), Terrorism Committee: Javier Rupérez Jan Beagle (from 1 October) Assistant Secretaries-General: Tuliameni Kalomoh, Danilo Türk (until July), Angela Kane (from December) OFFICE OF CENTRAL SUPPORT SERVICES Department for Disarmament Affairs Assistant Secretary-General: Andrew Toh Under-Secretary-General: Nobuyasu Abe CAPITAL MASTER PLAN PROJECT Department of Peacekeeping Operations Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director: Louis Fred- Under-Secretary-General: Jean-Marie Guéhenno erick Reuter IV Assistant Secretaries-General: Hédi Annabi, Jane Holl Lute Office of the United Nations Ombudsman Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Assistant Secretary-General, Ombudsman: Patricia M. Durrant Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Emergency Relief Coordinator: Jan Egeland Economic Commission for Africa Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Emergency Relief Co- Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: K. Y. Amoako ordinator: Eva Margareta Wahlstrom (until October), Abdoulie Janneh (from November)

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Economic Commission for Europe Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Brigita Schmö- Under-Secretary-General, High Commissioner: Ruud Lubbers gnerová (until 20 February), Antônio Manuel de Oliveira Gutterres (from 15 June) Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: José Luis Office of the United Nations Special Coordinator Machinea for the Middle East Under-Secretary-General, Special Coordinator for the Middle Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific East Peace Process and Personal Representative of the Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Kim Hak-Su Secretary-General to the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Authority: Terje Roed-Larson (until 2 Jan- Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia uary), Alvaro de Soto (from 6 May) Under-Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Mervat Tallawy Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Latin American Issues United Nations Office at Geneva Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Diego Cordovez Under-Secretary-General, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva: Sergei Ordzhonikidze Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Commonwealth of Independent States Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy: Yuli Vorontsov Under-Secretary-General, High Commissioner: Louise Arbour Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy High Commissioner: Mehr Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the Humanitarian Crisis in the Horn of Africa Khan Williams Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy: Martti Ahtisaari (until United Nations Office at Vienna 9 November) Under-Secretary-General, Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna and Executive Director of the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Sudan Office on Drugs and Crime: Antonio Maria Costa Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative: Johannes Pronk International Court of Justice Registry Assistant Secretary-General, Principal Deputy Special Repre- Assistant Secretary-General, Registrar: Philippe Couvreur sentative: Taye-Brook Zerihoun

United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan Secretariats of subsidiary organs, Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Secretary-General: Jean Arnault special representatives and other related bodies United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Executive Director: J. Denis Bélisle Secretary-General for Iraq: Ashraf Jehangir Qazi Office of the High Representative for the Least Developed Countries, United Nations Children’s Fund Landlocked Developing Countries and Small Island Developing States Under-Secretary-General, High Representative: Anwarul Karim Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Carol Bellamy Chowdhury (until April), Ann M. Veneman (from 1 May) Assistant Secretaries-General, Deputy Executive Directors: Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Africa Kul Gautam, Toshiyuki Niwa, Karin Sham Poo Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Mohamed Sahnoun United Nations Compensation Commission Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General on Colombia Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Rolf Goran Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: James LeMoyne Knutsson (until April). United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Office of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General for Assistant Secretary-General, Officer-in-Charge: Carlos Fortin Special Assignments in Africa Cabezas (until 31 August), Supachai Panitchpakdi (from Under-Secretary-General, Special Adviser: Ibrahim Gambari 1 September) (until June). United Nations Development Programme Office of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General Administrator: Mark Malloch Brown (until 13 August), Kemal for Myanmar Dervis (from 15 August) Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy: Razali Ismail Under-Secretary-General, Associate Administrator: Zéphirin Diabré Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau for Crisis Pre- for Children and Armed Conflict vention and Recovery: Julia V. Taft (until 28 February), Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative: Olara A. Kathleen Cravero (from 1 March) Otunnu Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau of Manage- ment: Jan Mattsson Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for the Great Lakes Region Assistant Administrator and Director, Bureau for Develop- Assistant Secretary-General, Special Representative: Ibrahima ment Policy: Shoji Nishimoto Fall Assistant Administrator and Regional Director, UNDP Africa: Abdoulie Janneh Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General Assistant Administrator and Regional Director, UNDP Arab for West Africa States: Khalaf Rima Hunaidi Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative: Ahmedou Assistant Administrator and Regional Director, UNDP Asia Ould-Abdallah and the Pacific: Hafiz Pasha

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Assistant Administrator and Regional Director, UNDP Europe United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone and the Commonwealth of Independent States: Kalman Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Mizsei Secretary-General and Chief of Mission: Daudi Ngelautwa Assistant Administrator and Regional Director, UNDP Latin Mwakawago America and the Caribbean: Elena Martinez Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Special Representative: José Vitor da Silva Angelo United Nations Disengagement Observer Force Assistant Secretary-General, Force Commander: Major Gen- Assistant Secretary-General, Force Commander: Major Gen- eral Sajjad Akram eral Bala Nanda Sharma United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor United Nations Environment Programme Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Klaus Töpfer Assistant Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Executive Director: Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Sukehiro Hasegawa Shafqat S. Kakakhel Force Commander: Lieutenant General Khairuddin Mat Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Secretary: Hamdallah Yusof Zedan Chief Military Observer: Brigadier General Pedro Rocha Pena Madeira United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Anna Kajumulo United Nations Office in Timor-Leste Tibaijuka Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Sukehiro Hasegawa United Nations Institute for Training and Research Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director: Marcel A. United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission Boisard Assistant Secretary-General, Acting Executive Chairman: Demetrius Perricos United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the United Nations Observer Mission in Bougainville Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Soren Jessen- Petersen Head of Mission: Tor Stenbock Assistant Secretary-General, Principal Deputy Special Repre- sentative: Lawrence Rossin United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia Assistant Secretaries-General, Deputy Special Representa- Assistant Secretary-General, Special Representative of the tives: Joachim Rucker (from 1 February), Jean Dussourd Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Heidi Tagliavini (from 18 February), Werner Wnendt (from April) Chief Military Observer: Major General Hussein Ahmed Eissa Ghobashi (until July), Major General Niaz Muhammad United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon Khan Khattak (from 13 August) Assistant Secretary-General, Personal Representative of the Secretary-General for Southern Lebanon: Staffan de Mistura United Nations Office for Project Services Assistant Secretary-General, Force Commander: Major Gen- Assistant Secretary-General, Executive Director: Nigel Fisher eral Alain Pellegrini United Nations Operation in Burundi United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Assistant Secretary-General, Chief Executive Officer: Bernard Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Carolyn McAskie G. Cochemé Assistant Secretary-General, Principal Deputy Special Repre- United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan sentative: Nureldin Satti Chief Military Observer: Major General Guido Palmieri (until September), Major General Dragutin Repinc (from December) United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea Secretary-General and Chief of Mission: Albert Tévoédjré Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Assistant Secretary-General, Principal Deputy Special Repre- Secretary-General: Legwaila Joseph Legwaila sentative: Alan Claude Doss Assistant Secretaries-General, Deputy Special Representa- Force Commander: Major General Abdoulaye Fall tives: Joël W. Adechi (from 25 May), Azouz Ennifar (from 29 July) United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Force Commander: Major General Rajender Singh Republic of the Congo Under-Secretary-General, Special Envoy of the Secretary- United Nations Mission in Liberia General: Mustapha Niasse Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Jacques Paul Klein Secretary-General and Chief of Mission: William Lacy Swing (until April), Alan Claude Doss (from 15 August) Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Special Representative: Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Special Representative: Abou Moussa Ross Mountain Assistant Secretary-General, Force Commander: Lieutenant Force Commander: Major General Samaila Iliya General Joseph Olorungbon Owonibi United Nations Peace-building Office in the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara Central African Republic Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Office: Secretary-General and Chief of Mission: Alvaro de Soto (until General Lamine Cissé August), Francesco Bastagli (from 1 September) Force Commander: Major General Gyorgy Száraz (until 11 United Nations Peace-building Support Office in Guinea-Bissau August), Brigadier General Kurt Mosgaard (from 12 Sep- Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Office: tember) Joao Bernardo Honwana

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United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus Assistant Secretary-General, Principal Deputy Special Repre- Assistant Secretary-General, Special Representative of the sentative: Hocine Medili Secretary-General and Head of Mission: Zbigniew Wlosowicz Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Special Representative: (until 30 November), Michael Moller (from 1 December) Adama Guindo Force Commander: Major General Herbert Joaquin Figoli Force Commander: Lieutenant General Augusto Heleno Almandos Ribeiro Pereira (until 1 September), Lieutenant General Urano Teixeira da Matta Bacellar (from September) United Nations Political Office for Somalia Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of Office: United Nations Tajikistan Office of Peace-building Winston A. Tubman (until March), François Lonseny Fall Assistant Secretary-General, Representative of the Secretary- (from 3 May) General: Vladimir Sotirov

United Nations Population Fund United Nations Truce Supervision Organization Under-Secretary-General, Executive Director: Thoraya Ahmed Assistant Secretary-General, Chief of Staff: Brigadier General Obaid Clive William Lilley Deputy Executive Director, Management: Imelda Henkin Deputy Executive Director, Programme: Kunio Waki United Nations University

United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Under-Secretary-General, Rector: Hans J. A. van Ginkel Palestine Refugees in the Near East Director, World Institute for Development Economics Re- Under-Secretary-General, Commissioner-General: Peter Hansen search: Anthony F. Shorrocks (until 31 March), Karen Koning AbuZayd (from 28 June) Assistant Secretary-General, Deputy Commissioner-Gen- On 31 December 2005, the total number of staff of the United eral: Filippo Grandi (from 25 September) Nations Secretariat with continuous service or expected serv- ice of a year or more was 16,176. Of these, 5,976 were in the Pro- United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti fessional and higher categories, 1,044 were experts (200-series Under-Secretary-General, Special Representative of the Project Personnel staff) and 9,156 were in the General Service Secretary-General: Juan Gabriel Valdés and related categories.

1Elected on 13 June 2005 (dec. 59/421). 2Elected on 13 June 2005 (dec. 59/423). 3The only Main Committee to meet at the resumed session. 4Chairmen elected by the Committees; announced by the Assembly President on 13 June 2005 (dec. 59/422). 5Appointed on 13 September 2005 (dec. 60/401). 6Elected by the General Assembly for a period of five years from 15 June 2005 ending 14 June 2010 (dec.59/420). 7Appointed for a four-year term from 1 September 2005 to 31 August 2009, confirmed by the Secretary-General on 11 May 2005 (dec. 59/419). 8Completed on 31 December 2005 9Completed on 20 May 2005 10Established on March 2005 11 Completed on 30 June 2005 12Established on 21 May 2005 13The General Assembly, in resolution 60/1 of 16 September, considering that the Trusteeship Council no longer met and had no remaining functions, decided to delete Chapter XIII of the Charter and references to the Council in Chapter XII. 14 Term expires on 5 February of the year indicated.

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Appendix IV Agendas of United Nations principal organs in 2005 Appendix IV

This appendix lists the items on the agendas of the General Agenda item titles have been shortened by omitting mention of Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic and Social reports, if any, following the subject of the item. Where the Council during 2005. For the Assembly, the column headed subject matter of an item is not apparent from its title, the “Allocation” indicates the assignment of each item to plenary subject is identified in square brackets; this is not part of the meetings or committees. title.

General Assembly

Agenda items remaining for consideration at the resumed fifty-ninth session (18 January–11 September 2005)

Item No. Title Allocation

2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation. Plenary 4. Election of the President of the General Assembly. Plenary 6. Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly. Plenary 8. Organization of work, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items. Plenary 15. Elections to fill vacancies in the principal organs: (c) Election of a member of the International Court of Justice. Plenary 16. Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections: (b) Election of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.1 Plenary 17. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other appointments: (b) Appointment of members of the Committee on Contribution; Plenary (h) Appointment of a member of the Joint Inspection Unit; Plenary (i) Appointment of the Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services; Plenary (j) Confirmation of the appointment of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development; Plenary (k) Confirmation of the appointment of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme.1 Plenary 18. Elections of judges of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of The former Yugoslavia since 1991. Plenary 39. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance. Plenary 43. Follow-up to the outcome of the twenty-sixth special session: implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS. Plenary 45. Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields.. Plenary 53. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters. Plenary 55. Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit. Plenary 56. Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations: (g) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Community of Central African States. Plenary 77. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects. 4th 84. Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development. Plenary, 2nd 85. Sustainable Development: Plenary (b) Further implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States. Plenary, 2nd

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Item No. Title Allocation

105. Human rights question: (b) Human rights question, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Plenary 106. Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors. 5th 107. Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations. 5th 108. Programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005. 5th 113. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations. Plenary, 5th 114. Human resources management. 5th 116. United Nations common systems. 5th 120. Administration and justice at the United Nations. 5th 121. Financing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994. 5th 122. Financing of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. 5th 123. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations. 5th 124. Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola. 5th 125. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 5th 126. Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus. 5th 127. Financing of the United Nations Organisation Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 5th 129. Financing of the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor. 5th 130. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea. 5th 131. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia. 5th 132. Financing of the activities arising from Security Council resolution 687(1991): (a) United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission. 5th 133 Financing of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. 5th 134. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Liberia. 5th 135. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle East. (a) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force. 5th 136. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone. 5th 137. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara. 5th 148. Measures to eliminate international terrorism. Plenary, 6th 150. International convention against the productive cloning of human beings. 6th 153. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Burundi. 5th 154. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Côte d’Ivoire. 5th 155. Financing of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. 5th 156. Multilingualism. Plenary 158. Declaration by the United Nations of 8 and 9 May as days of remembrance and reconciliation. Plenary 164. Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan.2 5th

Agenda of the twenty-eighth special session (24 January 2005) Item No. Title Allocation

1. Opening of the session by the Chairman of the delegation of Gabon. Plenary 2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation. Plenary 3. Credentials of the representatives of the special session of the General Assembly. Plenary 4. Election of the President. Plenary 5. Organization of the session. Plenary 6. Adoption of the agenda. Plenary 7. Commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Plenary

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Agenda of the sixtieth session3 (first part, 13 September–23 December 2005)

A. Maintenance of international peace and security Item No. Title Allocation

9. Report of the Security Council. Plenary 10. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies. Plenary 11. The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict. Plenary 12. Prevention of armed conflict. Plenary 13. The situation in Central America: progress in fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and development. Plenary 14. The situation in the Middle East. Plenary 15. Question of Palestine. Plenary 16. Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic. Plenary 17. The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security. Plenary 18. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba. Plenary 19. Question of Cyprus. Plenary 20. Armed aggression against the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Plenary 21. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas). Plenary 22. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti. Plenary 23. Armed Israeli aggression against the Iraqi nuclear installations and its grave consequences for the established international system concerning the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, the non- proliferation of nuclear weapons and international peace and security. Plenary 24. Consequences of the Iraqi occupation of and aggression against Kuwait. Plenary 25. Declaration of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity on the aerial and naval military attack against the Socialist People’s Libyan Arab Jamahiriya by the present United States Administration in April 1986. Plenary 26. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples. 4th 27. Assistance in mine action. 4th 28. Effects of atomic radiation. 4th 29. International cooperation in the peaceful uses of outer space. 4th 30. United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East. 4th 31. Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories. 4th 32. Comprehensive review of the whole question of peacekeeping operations in all their aspects. 4th 33. Questions relating to information. 4th 34. Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories transmitted under Article 73 e of the Charter of the United Nations. 4th 35. Economic and other activities which affect the interests of the peoples of the Non-Self-Governing Territories. 4th 36. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations. 4th 37. Offers by Member States of study and training facilities for inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories. 4th 38. Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources. 2nd 39. Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, questions relating to refugees, returnees and displaced persons and humanitarian questions. 3rd 40. The situation in the occupied territories of Azerbaijan. Plenary B. Promotion of sustained economic growth and sustainable development in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and recent United Nations conferences

41. Report of the Economic and Social Council. Plenary 42. Global Agenda for Dialogue among Civilizations. Plenary

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Item No. Title Allocation

43. Culture of peace. Plenary 44. Follow-up to the outcome of the special session on children. Plenary 45. Follow-up to the outcome of the twenty-sixth special session: implementation of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS. Plenary 46. Integrated and coordinated implementation of and follow-up to the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits in the economic, social and related fields. Plenary 47. 2001-2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, particularly in Africa. Plenary 48. Sport for peace and development: (a) Building a peaceful and better world through sport and the Olympic ideal; Plenary (b) International Year of Sport and Physical Education. Plenary 49. Information and communication technologies for development. Plenary, 2nd 50. Macroeconomic policy questions: (a) International trade and development; 2nd (b) International financial system and development; 2nd (c) External debt crisis and development. 2nd 51. Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development. Plenary, 2nd 52. Sustainable development: (a) Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development; 2nd (b) Follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States; 2nd (c) International Strategy for Disaster Reduction; 2nd (d) Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind; 2nd (e) Sustainable development in mountain regions; 2nd (f) Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy, including the implementation of the World Solar Programme 1996-2005; 2nd (g) Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa; 2nd (h) Convention on Biological Diversity; 2nd (i) Rendering assistance to the poor mountain countries to overcome obstacles in socio-economic and ecological areas. 2nd 53. Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat). 2nd 54. Globalization and interdependence: (a) Globalization and interdependence; 2nd (b) Science and Technology for development; 2nd (c) International migration and development; 2nd (d) Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of funds of illicit origin and returning such assets to the countries of origin. 2nd 55. Groups of countries in special situations: (a) Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries; 2nd (b) Specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries: outcome of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation. 2nd 56. Eradication of poverty and other development issues: (a) Implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006); 2nd (b) Women in development; 2nd (c) Human resources development. 2nd 57. Operational activities for development: (a) Operational activities for development of the United Nations system; 2nd (b) South-South cooperation: economic and technical cooperation among developing countries. 2nd 58. Training and research: (a) United Nations Institute for Training and Research; 2nd (b) United Nations System Staff College in Turin, Italy. 2nd

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59. Towards global partnership. 2nd 60. Global road safety crisis. Plenary 61. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the twenty-fourth special session of the General Assembly. 3rd 62. Social development, including questions relating to the world social situation and to youth, ageing, disabled persons and the family. Plenary, 3rd 63. Follow-up to the International Year of Older Persons: Second World Assembly on Aging. 3rd 64. Advancement of women. 3rd 65. Implementation of the outcome of the Fourth World Conference on Women and of the twenty-third special session of the General Assembly, entitled “Women 200: gender equality, development and peace for the twenty-first century”. 3rd C. Development of Africa

66. New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support: (a) New Partnership for Africa’s Development: progress in implementation and international support; Plenary (b) Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa. Plenary D. Promotion of human rights

67. Promotion and protection of the rights of children. 3rd 68. Indigenous issues. 3rd 69. Elimination of racism and racial discrimination: (a) Elimination of racism and racial discrimination; 3rd (b) Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action. 3rd 70. Right of peoples to self-determination. 3rd 71. Human rights questions: (a) Implementation of human rights instruments; 3rd (b) Human rights questions, including alternative approaches for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms; 3rd (c) Human rights situations and reports of special rapporteurs and representatives; 3rd (d) Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action; 3rd (e) Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. 3rd 72. Holocaust remembrance. Plenary E. Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance efforts

73. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance: (a) Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations; Plenary (b) Special economic assistance to individual countries or regions; 2nd (c) Strengthening of international cooperation and coordination of to study, mitigate and minimize the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster; Plenary (d) Assistance to the Palestinian people; Plenary (e) Emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy and reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan. Plenary F. Promotion of justice and international law

74. Report of the International Court of Justice. Plenary 75. Oceans and the law of the sea: (a) Oceans and the law of the sea; Plenary (b) Sustainable fisheries, including through the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks, and related instruments. Plenary 76. Report of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994. Plenary

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77. Report of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. Plenary 78. United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law. 6th 79. Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its thirty-eighth session. 6th 80. Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its fifty-seventh session. 6th 81. Report of the International Criminal Court. Plenary 82. Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organisation. 6th 83. Scope of legal protection under the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel. 6th G. Disarmament

84. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency. Plenary 85. Reduction of military budgets: (a) Reduction of military budgets; 1st (b) Objective information on military matters, including transparency of military expenditures. 1st 86. Developments in the field of information and telecommunications in the context of international security. 1st 87. Prohibition of the development and manufacture of new types of weapons of mass destruction and new systems of such weapons: report of the Conference on Disarmament. 1st 88. Question of Antarctica. 1st 89. Implementation of the Declaration of the Indian Ocean as a Zone of Peace. 1st 90. African Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone Treaty. 1st 91. Consolidation of the regime established by the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapon in Latin America and the Caribbean (Treaty of Tlatelolco). 1st 92. Verification in all its aspects, including the role of the United Nations in the field of verification. 1st 93. Role of science and technology in the context of international security and disarmament 1st 94. Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in the region of the Middle East. 1st 95. Conclusion of effective international arrangements to assure non-nuclear-weapon States against the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons. 1st 96. Prevention of an arms race in outer space. 1st 97. General and complete disarmament: (a) Notification of nuclear tests; 1st (b) Prohibition of the dumping of radioactive wastes; 1st (c) Reduction of non-strategic nuclear weapons; 1st (d) Transparency in armaments; 1st (e) National legislation on transfer of arms, military equipment and dual-use goods and technology; 1st (f) Missiles; 1st (g) Observance of environmental norms in the drafting and implementation of agreements on disarmament and arms control; 1st (h) Promotion of multilateralism in the area fo disarmament and non-proliferation; 1st (i) Convening of the fourth special session of the General Assembly devoted to disarmament; 1st (j) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction; 1st (k) Assistance to States for curbing the illicit traffic in small arms and collecting them; 1st (l) Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world: accelerating the implementation of nuclear disarmament commitments; 1st (m) Nuclear disarmament; 1st (n) Relationship between disarmament and development; 1st (o) Reducing nuclear danger; 1st (p) Measures to prevent terrorists from acquiring weapons of mass destruction; 1st (q) Follow-up to the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons; 1st (r) Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-personnel Mines and on Their Destruction; 1st

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(s) Nuclear-weapon-free southern hemisphere and adjacent areas; 1st (t) The illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects; 1st (u) Confidence-building measures in the regional and subregional context; 1st (v) Conventional arms control at the regional and subregional levels; 1st (w) Regional disarmament; 1st (x) Prevention of the illicit transfer and unauthorized access to and use of man-portable air defence systems; 1st (y) The Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation; 1st (z) Information on confidence-building measures in the field of conventional arms; 1st (aa) Bilateral strategic nuclear arms reductions and the new strategic framework; 1st (bb) Establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Central Asia; 1st (cc) United Nations conference to identify ways of eliminating nuclear dangers in the context of nuclear disarmament; 1st (dd) Problems arising from the accumulation of conventional ammunition stockpiles in surplus. 1st 98. Review and implementation of the Concluding Document of the Twelfth Special Session of the General Assembly: (a) Regional confidence-building measures: activities of the United Nations Standing Advisory Committee on Security Questions in Central Africa; 1st (b) United Nations regional centres for peace and disarmament; 1st (c) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace, Disarmament and Development in Latin America and the Caribbean; 1st (d) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Asia and the Pacific; 1st (e) United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa; 1st (f) Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons; 1st 99. Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session: (a) Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters; 1st (b) United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research; 1st (c) Report of the Conference on Disarmament; 1st (d) Report of the Disarmament Commission. 1st 100. The risk of nuclear proliferation in the Middle East. 1st 101. Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May Be Deemed to Be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects. 1st 102. Strengthening of security and cooperation in the Mediterranean region. 1st 103. Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty. 1st 104. Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction. 1st 105. Review of the implementation of the Declaration on the Strengthening of International Security. 1st H. Drug control, crime prevention and combating international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations

106. Crime prevention and criminal justice. 3rd 107. International drug control. 3rd 108. Measures to eliminate international terrorism. 6th I. Organizational, administrative and other matters

1. Opening of the session by the President of the General Assembly. Plenary 2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation. Plenary 3. Credentials of representatives to the sixtieth session of the General Assembly: (a) Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee; Plenary (b) Report of the Credentials Committee. Plenary 4. Election of the President of the General Assembly. Plenary 5. Election of the officers of the Main Committees. 1st, 4th, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th 6. Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly. Plenary 7. Organization of work, adoption of the agenda and allocation of items: reports of the General Committee. Plenary 8. General debate. Plenary

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109. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations. Plenary 110. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization. Plenary 111. Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs: (a) Election of five non-permanent members of the Security Council; Plenary (b) Election of eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council; Plenary (c) Election of five member of the International Court of Justice. Plenary 112. Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections: Plenary (a) Election of twenty members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination; Plenary (b) Election of twenty-nine members of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme; Plenary (c) Election of the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme; Plenary (d) Election of the Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlement Programme. Plenary 113. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other appointments: (a) Appointment of members of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions; 5th (b) Appointment of members of the Committee on Contributions; 5th (c) Confirmation of the appointment of members of the Investments Committee; 5th (d) Appointment of a member of the Board of Auditors; 5th (e) Appointment of members of the International Civil Service Commission; 5th (f) Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences. Plenary 114. Admission of new Members to the United Nations. Plenary 115. Implementation of the resolutions of the United Nations. Plenary 116. Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly. Plenary, 1st, 4th, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th 117. Question of equitable representation on and increase in the membership of the Security Council and related matters. Plenary 118. United Nations reform: measures and proposals. Plenary 119. Strengthening of the United Nations system. Plenary 120. Follow-up to the outcome of the Millennium Summit. Plenary 121. Financial reports and audited financial statements, and reports of the Board of Auditors: (a) United Nations peacekeeping operations; 5th (b) Voluntary funds administered by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; 5th (c) Capital master plan. 5th 122. Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations. 5th 123. Programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005. 5th 124. Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007. 5th 125. Programme planning. 2nd, 5th 126. Improving the financial situation of the United Nations. 5th 127. Pattern of conferences. 5th 128. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations. 5th 129. Human resources management. 5th 130. Joint Inspection Unit. 5th 131. United Nations common system. 5th 132. Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services. 5th 133. Administration of justice at the United Nations. 5th 134. Financing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994. 5th 135. Financing of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. 5th 136. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations. 5th 137. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Burundi. 5th

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138. Financing of the United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire. 5th 139. Financing of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus. 5th 140. Financing of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 5th 141. Financing of the United Nations Mission in East Timor. 5th 142. Financing of the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor. 5th 143. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea. 5th 144. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia. 5th 145. Financing of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti. 5th 146. Financing of the activities arising from Security Council resolution 687(1991): (a) United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission; 5th (b) Other activities. 5th 147. Financing of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo. 5th 148. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Liberia. 5th 149. Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in the Middle East: (a) United Nations Disengagement Observer Force; 5th (b) United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. 5th 150. Financing of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone. 5th 151. Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Sudan. 5th 152. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara. 5th 153. Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country. 6th 154. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Plenary 155. Observer status for the Latin American Integration Association in the General Assembly. 6th 156. Observer status for the Common Fund for Commodities in the General Assembly. 6th 157. Election of judges of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. Plenary 158. Observer status for the Hague Conference on Private International Law in the General Assembly. 6th 159. Observer status for the Ibero-American Conference in the General Assembly. 6th 160. Follow-up to the recommendations on administrative management and internal oversight of the Independent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme. Plenary

Security Council Agenda items considered during 2005 Item No.4 Title

1. The situation in Afghanistan. 2. Report(s) of the Secretary-General on the Sudan. 3. The question concerning Haiti. 4. The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question. 5. International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991. 6. Threats to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts. 7. Meeting of the Security Council with the troop-contributing countries [UNIFIL, UNMEE, MONUC, UNOCI, MINURSO, ONUB, MINUSTAH, UNDOF, UNOMIG, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNFICYP, UNIOSIL]. 8. The situation in Georgia. 9. The situation in the Middle East. 10. The situation in Côte d’Ivoire. 11. Election of a member of the International Court of Justice. 12. The situation between Iraq and Kuwait. 13. Small arms.

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14. Children and armed conflict. 15. Security Council resolutions 1160(1998), 1199(1998), 1203(1998), 1239(1999) and 1244(1999) [Kosovo]. 16. Cross-border issues in West Africa. 17. The situation in Timor-Leste. 18. The situation concerning the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 19. Briefing by the Chairman-in-Office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. 20. The situation between Eritrea and Ethiopia. 21. The situation in Burundi. 22. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 23. Wrap-up discussion on the work of the Security Council for the current month. 24. The situation in Guinea-Bissau. 25. Security Council mission [Haiti]. 26. Briefings by Chairmen of subsidiary bodies of the Security Council. 27. The situation concerning Western Sahara. 28. The situation in Sierra Leone. 29. Post-conflict peace-building. 30. The situation concerning Iraq. 31. United Nations peacekeeping operations. 32. Letter dated 31 March 1998 from the Chargé d’affaires a.i. of the Permanent Mission of Papua New Guinea to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council. 33. The situation in Cyprus. 34. The situation in Liberia. 35. Protection of civilians in armed conflict. 36. Africa’s food crisis as a threat to peace and security. 37. The maintenance of international peace and security: the role of the Security Council in Humanitarian crises— challenges, lessons learned and the way ahead. 38. The responsibility of the Security Council in the maintenance of international peace and security: HIV/AIDS and international peacekeeping operations. 39. The situation in the Central African Republic. 40. Letters dated 26 July 2005 from the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the United Nations addressed to the President of the Security Council (S/2005/485 and S/2005/489). 41. Threats to international peace and security. 42. Consideration of the draft report of the Security Council to the General Assembly. 43. The role of civil society in conflict prevention and the pacific settlement of disputes. 44. Cooperation between the United Nations and regional organisations in maintaining international peace and security. 45. Women and peace and security. 46. Election of five members of the International Court of Justice. 47. Report of the Secretary-General on the situation in Somalia. 48. The situation in Africa.

Economic and Social Council Agenda of the organizational and resumed organizational sessions for 2005 (19 January, 4 February, 1 and 31 March; 27-28 April, 9 June) Item No. Title

1. Election of the Bureau. 2. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters. 3. Basic programme of work of the Council. 4. Elections, nominations, confirmations and appointments.

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Agenda of the substantive and resumed substantive sessions of 2005 (29 June–27 July; 21 October)

Item No. Title

1. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters. High-level segment 2. Achieving the internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration, as well as implementing the outcomes of the major United Nations conferences and summits: progress made, challenges and opportunities. Operational activities of the United Nations for international development cooperation segment 3. Operational activities of the United Nations for international development cooperation: (a) Follow-up to policy recommendations of the General Assembly and the Council; (b) Reports of the Executive Boards of the United Nations Development Programme and of the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the World Food Programme. Coordination segment 4. Towards achieving internationally agreed development goals, including those contained in the Millennium Declaration. Humanitarian affairs segment 5. Special economic, humanitarian and disaster relief assistance. General segment 6. Implementation of and follow-up to major United Nations conferences and summits: (a) Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development; (b) Review and coordination of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001-2010. 7. Coordination, programme and other questions: (a) Reports of coordination bodies; (b) Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2006-2007; (c) International cooperation in the field of informatics; (d) Long-term programme of support for Haiti; (e) Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system; (f) Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) Task Force; (g) Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS); (h) Ad hoc advisory groups on African countries emerging from conflict; (i) Calendar of conferences and meetings in the economic, social and related fields. 8. Implementation of General Assembly resolutions 50/227, 52/12 B and 57/270 B. 9. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international institutions associated with the United Nations. 10. Regional cooperation. 11. Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan. 12. Non-governmental organizations. 13. Economic and environmental questions: (a) Sustainable development; (b) Science and technology for development; (c) Statistics; (d) Human settlements; (e) Environment; (f) Population and development; (g) Public administration and development; (h) International cooperation in tax matters; (i) United Nations Forum on Forests; (j) Assistance to third States affected by the application of sanctions; (k) Cartography; (l) Women and development; (m) Transport of dangerous goods. 14. Social and human rights questions: (a) Advancement of women; (b) Social development;

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(c) Crime prevention and criminal justice; (d) Narcotic drugs; (e) United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; (f) Comprehensive implementation of and follow-up to the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action; (g) Human rights; (h) Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

[1] Sub-item added at the resumed session. [2] Item added at the resumed session. [3] Further to resolution 58/316 of 1 July 2004, agenda items are organized under headings corresponding to the priorities of the Organization. [4] Numbers indicate the order in which items were taken up in 2005.

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