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United Nations A/55/100 Distr.: General General Assembly 15 June 2000 Original: English Fifty-fifth session Annotated preliminary list of items to be included in the provisional agenda of the fifty-fifth regular session of the General Assembly* Contents Page I. Introduction ................................................................... 13 II. Annotated list.................................................................. 14 1. Opening of the session by the Chairman of the delegation of Namibia ............... 14 2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation.......................................... 14 3. Credentials of representatives to the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly: (a) Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee ................... 14 (b) Report of the Credentials Committee ..................................... 14 4. Election of the President of the General Assembly ............................... 15 5. Election of the officers of the Main Committees................................. 15 6. Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly.......................... 17 7. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations......................................................... 18 8. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work: reports of the General Committee . 18 9. General debate ............................................................ 20 10. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization1 ................... 20 * The unannotated preliminary list was issued on 29 February 2000 (A/55/50). Drafting changes made since that date have been included in the present document and will be reflected in the provisional agenda, which will be issued on 7 July 2000 (A/55/150). 1 This item remains also on the agenda of the fifty-fourth session (decision 54/465 of 23 December 1999). 00-59301 (E) 250800 A/55/100 11. Report of the Security Council1 ............................................... 21 12. Report of the Economic and Social Council..................................... 21 13. Report of the International Court of Justice..................................... 23 14. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency............................... 23 15. Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs: (a) Election of five non-permanent members of the Security Council .............. 25 (b) Election of eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council............. 26 16. Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections: (a) Election of seven members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination . 27 (b) Election of seventeen members of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law........................................................... 28 (c) Election of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees .............. 29 17. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other appointments:1 (a) Appointment of members of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions................................................... 29 (b) Appointment of members of the Committee on Contributions ................. 30 (c) Appointment of a member of the Board of Auditors ......................... 31 (d) Confirmation of the appointment of members of the Investments Committee ..... 31 (e) Appointment of members of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal ........ 32 (f) Appointment of members and alternate members of the United Nations Staff Pension Committee .................................................... 33 (g) Appointment of members of the International Civil Service Commission ........ 33 (h) Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences .................. 34 (i) Appointment of the members of the Consultative Committee on the United Nations Development Fund for Women .......................................... 34 (j) Confirmation of the appointment of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme............................................... 35 (k) Appointment of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ...... 35 18. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples ...................................................... 36 19. Admission of new Members to the United Nations ............................... 37 20. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance:1 (a) Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations ....................................................... 38 (b) Special economic assistance to individual countries or regions1 ................ 38 (c) Assistance to the Palestinian people ...................................... 46 2 A/55/100 (d) Emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy and reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan ............................................... 47 21. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of American States .... 48 22. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee ................................................................ 48 23. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community ............. 49 24. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference 50 25. Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States ............. 51 26. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union1 .......... 51 27. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity ....... 52 28. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization . 53 29. Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ...................................................... 54 30. Implementation of the United Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, including measures and recommendations agreed upon at its mid-term review . 55 31. Elimination of coercive economic measures as a means of political and economic compulsion ............................................................... 55 32. United Nations Year of Dialogue among Civilizations ............................ 56 33. Culture of peace ........................................................... 57 34. Oceans and the law of the sea: (a) Consideration of elements relating to oceans and seas, including improvement of coordination and cooperation ............................................ 58 (b) Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing, unauthorized fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and on the high seas, fisheries by-catch and discards, and other developments ........................................................ 60 35. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba ........................................ 61 36. Bethlehem 2000 ........................................................... 61 37. Implementation of the outcome of the World Summit for Social Development and of the special session of the General Assembly in this regard1 ........................... 62 38. Zone of peace and cooperation of the South Atlantic ............................. 63 39. Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of Governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies....................................... 63 40. The situation in the Middle East1 ............................................. 64 41. Question of Palestine1 ...................................................... 65 42. Special session of the General Assembly in 2001 for follow-up to the World Summit for Children ................................................................. 67 3 A/55/100 43. The situation in Central America: procedures for the establishment of a firm and lasting peace and progress in fashioning a region of peace, freedom, democracy and development1 ............................................................. 69 44. Global implications of the year 2000 date conversion problem of computers .......... 71 45. The situation in Bosnia and Herzegovina1 ...................................... 71 46. The situation in Afghanistan and its implications for international peace and security1 .. 73 47. Assistance in mine action.................................................... 74 48. The situation of democracy and human rights in Haiti1 ............................ 74 49. The situation in East Timor during its transition to independence ................... 76 50. Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa1 ................................................................... 78 51. Question of the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) .................................... 79 52. 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 ............................................... 79 53. 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