B. Improving the working methods of the General Assembly

Therefore, the General Assembly would need to extend the work of the Second and the Fifth Committee.

A workshop for members of the National Assembly was organized on the national budget and human rights.

We therefore stress the importance of resolution 58 126, on the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly.

A INF 60 3 Rev.1 Programme of work of the General Assembly Schedule of plenary meetings Note by the President of the General Assembly A C E F R S

I am the first to acknowledge that this has been an unusually intense period of work for the General Assembly.

The Assembly also called upon States and institutions concerned to provide voluntary contributions in support of the work of the Special Representative.

Hassan Gouled also served in the French National Assembly 1959 1962 and the French Senate 1952 1958.

To move the item to the plenary would be to ignore efforts to reform and rationalize the work of the General Assembly.

In the context of those broad policy objectives and activities, let me now turn to the immediate business of the Assembly.

At its fifty eighth session, the General Assembly endorsed the Almaty Declaration and the Almaty Programme of Action (resolution 58 201).

The General Assembly also endorsed the holding of six technical workshops with a practical orientation on the following subjects

The General Assembly approves the programme of work of the Second Committee for the sixty first session as set out below

Tuvalu supports the reforms proposed for the United Nations, including the expansion of the permanent and non permanent membership of the Security Council and the review of the Council's working methods and the rationalization of the General Assembly's work.

The Assembly also adopted resolution 59 260 on the future operation of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women.

At its fifty sixth session, the General Assembly decided to establish a working group to make recommendations to the Assembly, for its consideration by the end of 2002, on the future operation of the Institute (resolution 56 125).

All the other measures can improve the procedures and streamline the functioning of the Assembly, but they are not enough to ensure that the Assembly will regain its due authority as the most representative organ of the Organization.

That includes agency work at the country level as well as the activities of the principal organs, including the General Assembly and the Security Council.

(c) To invite the Chairperson of the Committee on the Rights of the Child to present an oral report on the work of the Committee to the General Assembly at its sixty third session as a way to enhance communication between the Assembly and the Committee

At its fifty ninth session, the General Assembly requested the Secretary General to submit a report to the Assembly at its sixtieth session on the progress made in the implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action (resolution 59 245).

Subsequently, the General Assembly endorsed the Almaty Programme of Action and the Almaty Ministerial Declaration at its 58th session in its resolution A 58 Res 201.

Any reform of the General Assembly should include the implementation of all its resolutions that would avoid the necessity for repeating them.

We recognize the importance of acting on the request made by the General Assembly in its resolution 59 245 of 22 December 2004 to integrate the Almaty Programme of Action into the work programme of our organizations.

Ms. Rivero (Uruguay), speaking as Chairperson of the Group of Latin American and Caribbean States, drew attention to General Assembly resolutions 58 126 and 58 316 on the revitalization of the work of the Assembly, which provided both for the pre session election of officers of the Main Committees and the exploration of ways to improve the working methods of the General Assembly.

The Committee requests the Assembly to appropriate that amount against the contingency fund, to be used for the functioning of the Institute in 2006.

The Advisory Committee recalls that the High Commissioner's plan of action was brought to the attention of the General Assembly, but not for a decision.

I also wish to draw the attention of this Assembly to the fact that peacekeeping in Africa constitutes the bulk of the Security Council's work.

(d) Requesting the Secretary General to ensure that the President of the General Assembly is provided with proper protocol services at Headquarters and at other United Nations duty stations

The General Assembly may also wish to consider options for mainstreaming disability within the United Nations national development frameworks, such as in the context of the common country assessment and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework.

The present report is prepared in accordance with General Assembly resolution 60 140, in which the Assembly requested the Secretary General to report to the Commission with recommendations for enhancing the Commission's work as well as proposals for future themes.

The outcome document of September's General Assembly summit (General Assembly resolution 60 1) set this concept out as a major advance in the action of the international community, and we cannot fail to welcome this.

Considering that the improvement of the methods of work of the First Committee would complement and facilitate the broader effort to revitalize the General Assembly,

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2001 27 Implementation of General Assembly resolutions 50 227 and 52 12 B improving the working methods of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council

In paragraph 8 of its resolution 59 260 on the future operation of INSTRAW, the General Assembly decided to provide its full support to the current efforts to revitalize the Institute and to ensure that the Institute would be able to continue functioning for a period of at least one year.

The exact dates for the informal interactive hearings in July 2006 and the two panel discussions in early September will therefore be determined in consultation between the substantive secretariat and the Department for General Assembly and Conference Management, subject to the programme of work of the General Assembly.

16. Requests the Secretary General to submit to the General Assembly at its sixtieth session a report on the progress made in the implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action.

A similar workplan for the remaining Territories, pursuant to General Assembly resolutions, would accelerate the decolonization process elsewhere.

(a) Formulating and implementing the programme of work of the institution, in line with the relevant statute and policy decisions adopted by the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and ESCAP

The General Assembly, by its resolution 57 177 of 18 December 2002, welcomed the adoption of the Research Agenda to support the implementation of the Madrid Plan of Action.

At this important juncture in the work of the General Assembly, your continued cooperation and support as Vice President is greatly appreciated.

The General Assembly had requested the relevant international, regional and sub regional organizations to mainstream the implementation of the Almaty Programme of Action into their relevant programmes of work.

(iii) Requesting the Secretary General to ensure that the President of the General Assembly is provided with proper protocol services at Headquarters and at other United Nations duty stations (para. 3 (d))

The Seventh Congress adopted the Milan Plan of Action, which was subsequently approved by the General Assembly in its resolution 40 32 of 29 November 1985.

We would like to do this particularly under one item in the Assembly's programme of work, and that is the Global Agenda for Dialogue among Civilizations.