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B.
Organization of the agenda of the General Assembly
2.
Recalling section B, paragraph 4, of the annex to resolution 58/126, and
having reviewed the note by the Secretariat entitled “Illustrative agenda of the
General Assembly”, 2 and taking into account the views expressed by Member States
on the matter, it is decided that:
(a) Pursuant to paragraph 4 of section B of the annex to resolution 58/126,
the agenda of the General Assembly shall be organized under headings
corresponding to the priorities of the Organization, as contained in the medium-term
plan for the period 2002–2005 3 (or in the strategic framework, as appropriate), with
an additional heading for “Organizational, administrative and other matters” for the
purpose of giving a sense of structure to the work of the Assembly, achieving a
better presentation of the issues and challenges with which the Assembly deals and
making the work of the Assembly more accessible, with the understanding that the
new arrangement will not prejudge the way in which the work of the Assembly is
organized and carried out;
(b)
The headings of the agenda shall consequently be:
(i)
Maintenance of international peace and security;
(ii) Promotion of sustained economic growth and sustainable development in
accordance with the resolutions of the General Assembly and recent United
Nations conferences;
(iii) Development of Africa;
(iv) Promotion of human rights;
(v)
Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance efforts;
(vi) Promotion of justice and international law;
(vii) Disarmament;
(viii) Drug control, crime prevention and combating international terrorism in
all its forms and manifestations;
(ix) Organizational, administrative and other matters;
(c) The General Committee shall make recommendations, after consultation
with Member States, to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session on the
placement of the agenda items for the fifty-ninth session under the headings set out
above, with a view to making the new arrangement effective;
(d) The provisions of the present section shall be reviewed by the General
Assembly at its sixty-first session with a view to making further improvements, as
appropriate.
C.
Practices and working methods of the Main Committees
3.
Recalling section B, paragraph 8, of the annex to resolution 58/126, and
having reviewed the note by the Secretariat entitled “Historical and analytical note
on the practices and working methods of the Main Committees”, 4 recalling that the
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A/58/CRP.4.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 6 (A/55/6/Rev.1).
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A/58/CRP.5.
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