Additional time is also required to enable the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and the Fifth Committee to review those implications before the draft resolution is acted upon by the General Assembly.

Representatives are reminded to submit draft resolutions sufficiently in advance so that Member States will have adequate time to examine them.

One of the commentators underlined the need for better time management, as the number of agenda items, meetings, resolutions, and presidential statements was on the rise.

Agenda Items

At the same time, economic reform has not been abandoned. Controversial budget provisions that had earlier deterred investors are being reviewed.

The Committee has dealt with three key items on its agenda, as detailed below.

Proposals of agenda items

E. Balance sheet items

Other items of interest

Items for information poverty statistics

Items for information service statistics

As in any such list of proposals, there are items which seem more important to some than to others, and items about which some have reservations, while others consider them essential.

Items for information statistical capacity building

Since 2001, billions of dollars were shifted from disaster relief to homeland security and the war in Iraq. Key disaster mitigation programs were slashed and federal funding for post disaster relief was cut in half.

Its removal would provide for a considerable saving of time even if NIs were to speak under other agenda items, as noted previously.

Items for information informal sector statistics

Items for discussion and decision development indicators

Items for information international merchandise trade statistics

Items which the Committee has decided to consider together.

At present, robots are mere items of property.

Items for discussion and decision social statistics

Items for discussion and decision distributive trade statistics

Items for discussion and decision environmental accounting

Items which the Committee has decided to consider together.

Agenda items 85 to 105 (continued)

On possible approaches to controversial items, several participants expressed their concern at stalemates over agenda items and items held in abeyance.

Items for discussion and decision international economic and social classifications

Items for discussion and decision programme review industrial statistics

Agenda items 45, 53 and 55

Items for discussion and decision International Comparison Programme

Agenda of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly

The Convention did not obligate any country to transport any particular item or to refrain from prohibiting the transport of items or materials on its flagship.

In terms of another suggestion, both draft articles 17 and 18 could be drafted in the same way, either as without prejudice clauses or as exclusion clauses.

The outcome of that approach was new agenda items.

African Commission of Health and Human Rights Promoters

The titles of agenda items have been abbreviated, where appropriate.

While grants are expenditure items, allocations are advances.

Items for discussion and decision principles governing international statistical activities

He welcomed the Committee's thoughts regarding the allocation of agenda items.

(a) Reformed, improved and streamlined its agenda to seven items

Reducing complexity and duplication Providing a stronger focus on practical outcomes.

The Committee resumed its consideration of this agenda item.

Since 2004 it became an official agenda item of the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.

Indigenous Peoples' Centre for Documentation, Research and Information (doCip)

The closure of the list of speakers on any item(s) would be announced by the Chairperson in advance, normally at the beginning of the consideration of that agenda item (except for item 2).