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United Nations A/57/100 General Assembly Distr.: General 14 June 2002 Original: English Fifty-seventh session Annotated preliminary list of items to be included in the provisional agenda of the fifty-seventh regular session of the General Assembly* Contents Page I. Introduction .................................................................... 14 II. Annotated list................................................................... 15 1. Opening of the session by the Chairman of the delegation of the Republic of Korea ..... 15 2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation ........................................... 15 3. Credentials of representatives to the fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly ..... 15 (a) Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee .................... 15 (b) Report of the Credentials Committee ....................................... 15 4. Election of the President of the General Assembly ................................ 16 5. Election of the officers of the Main Committees .................................. 17 6. Election of the Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly ........................... 18 7. Notification by the Secretary-General under Article 12, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations .......................................................... 20 8. Adoption of the agenda and organization of work: reports of the General Committee .... 20 9. General debate.............................................................. 22 10. Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Organization1 ................... 23 11. Report of the Security Council1 ................................................ 23 12. Report of the Economic and Social Council1 ..................................... 24 __________________ * The unannotated preliminary list was issued on 18 April 2002 (A/57/50/Rev.1). 1 This item remains also on the agenda of the fifty-sixth session (decision 56/464 of 24 December 2001). 02-45841 (E) 190702 *0245841* A/57/100 13. Report of the International Court of Justice ...................................... 25 14. Report of the International Atomic Energy Agency................................ 25 15. Elections to fill vacancies in principal organs .................................... 26 (a) Election of five non-permanent members of the Security Council ................ 26 (b) Election of eighteen members of the Economic and Social Council .............. 27 (c) Election of five members of the International Court of Justice .................. 28 16. Elections to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other elections: election of twenty members of the Committee for Programme and Coordination ....................... 30 17. Appointments to fill vacancies in subsidiary organs and other appointments ........... 31 (a) Appointment of members of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions .................................................... 31 (b) Appointment of members of the Committee on Contributions ................... 32 (c) Confirmation of the appointment of members of the Investments Committee ...... 33 (d) Appointment of members of the United Nations Administrative Tribunal1 ......... 34 (e) International Civil Service Commission ..................................... 34 (i) Appointment of members of the Commission ............................ 34 (ii) Designation of the Chairman and the Vice-Chairman of the Commission ..... 35 (f) Appointment of members of the Joint Inspection Unit ......................... 36 (g) Appointment of members of the Committee on Conferences .................... 36 (h) Confirmation of the appointment of the Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ..................................... 37 (i) Confirmation of the appointment of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme................................................. 38 18. Election of judges 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 ....................................... 38 19. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples ....................................................... 39 20. Admission of new Members to the United Nations1 ............................... 41 21. Strengthening of the coordination of humanitarian and disaster relief assistance of the United Nations, including special economic assistance............................. 41 (a) Strengthening of the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations ......................................................... 41 (b) Special economic assistance to individual countries or regions1 ................. 43 (c) Assistance to the Palestinian people ........................................ 47 2 A/57/100 (d) Emergency international assistance for peace, normalcy and reconstruction of war-stricken Afghanistan ................................................. 48 22. Cooperation between the United Nations and regional and other organizations ......... 49 (a) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Asian-African Legal Consultative Organization ........................................................... 49 (b) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Organization ........................................................... 50 (c) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Caribbean Community .......... 50 (d) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Council of Europe ............. 51 (e) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Community of Central African States .......................................................... 52 (f) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Economic Cooperation Organization ........................................................... 52 (g) Cooperation between the United Nations and the International Organization of la Francophonie........................................................... 53 (h) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Inter-Parliamentary Union....... 53 (i) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Latin American Economic System ................................................................ 54 (j) Cooperation between the United Nations and the League of Arab States .......... 55 (k) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons.................................................... 56 (l) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ................................................... 57 (m) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity.... 58 (n) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of American States . 59 (o) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Organization of the Islamic Conference ............................................................ 60 (p) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Pacific Islands Forum........... 60 (q) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization ........................ 61 (r) Cooperation between the United Nations and the Southern African Development Community ............................................................ 62 23. United Nations Year for Cultural Heritage ....................................... 63 24. Culture of peace ............................................................ 63 25. Oceans and the law of the sea ................................................. 64 (a) Oceans and the law of the sea ............................................. 64 3 A/57/100 (b) Large-scale pelagic drift-net fishing, unauthorized fishing in zones of national jurisdiction and on the high seas/illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, fisheries by-catch and discards, and other developments ....................... 65 (c) 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 ............................................................ 66 26. Necessity of ending the economic, commercial and financial embargo imposed by the United States of America against Cuba.......................................... 66 27. The role of diamonds in fuelling conflict ........................................ 67 28. Assistance in mine action ..................................................... 68 29. 2001-2010: Decade to Roll Back Malaria in Developing Countries, particularly in Africa ..................................................................... 68 30. The role of the United Nations in promoting a new global human order ............... 69 31. Elimination of unilateral extraterritorial coercive economic measures as a means of political and economic compulsion ............................................. 70 32. Information and communication technologies for development ...................... 71 33. Causes of conflict and the promotion of durable peace and sustainable development in Africa ....................................................................
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