APPENDIX III

AGENDAS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY COMMITTEES

The Agendas of the Special Political Committee and the First Committee on Political & Security Affairs appear in the text on pages 7-9. The Agendas of the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth & Sixth Committees for the 34th session were as follows:

Howard Rosen-Second Committee on Economic and Financial Matters

ECOSOC Report; Development and International Economic Cooperation, except sub-item (a); UNITAR; Special Fund; University; Long-term trends in Economic Development; Unified Approach to Development Analysis and Planning; Transfer of Real Resources; Nicaragua ; Cominican Republic and Dominica; Food Problem; HABITAT; UNIDO; UNEP; UNDRO; Operational Activities; TCDC; UNCTAD; UNCSTD; Energy Conference.

The Second Committee held a total of 60 meetings and adopted over 100 resolutions.

Esther Coopersmith-Third Committee on Social and Humanitarian Affairs Agenda item.-Implementation of the Programme for the Decade for Action to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination;

Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination:

Report of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination;

Status of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination;

Status of the International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Apartheid.

Importance of the universal realization of the right of peoples to self-determination and of the speedy granting of independence to colonial countries and peoples for the effective guarantee and observance of human rights;

Alternative approaches and ways and means within the United Nations system for improving the effective enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms;

Review and coordination of human rights programmes of organizations in the United Nations systems and cooperation with other international programmes in the field of human rights;

Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment; Questionnaire on the Declaration on the protection of All Persons from Being Subjected to Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; Unilateral declarations by Member States against torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment.

International Covenants on Human Rights including the Report of the Human Rights Committee; and the Status of the International Covenant on Economic, Social ad Cultural Rights, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Optional Protocol to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

Elimination of all forms of religious intolerance.

Report of the Economic and Social Council.

United Nations Decade for Women including the World Conference of the United Nations Decade for Women.

World Social Situation and the Implementation of the Declaration on Social Progress.

International Youth Year and Policies and Programmes relating to youth, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ;

International Year for Disabled Persons;

Question of the Elderly and the Aged;

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United Nations Decade for Women, including Implementation of General Assembly Resolution 3519 (XXX); Status and role of women in education and in the economic and social fields; International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women; and the Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Decade for Women.

Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment of punishment including Draft Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials.

Draft Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. The Third Committee held 73 meetings and adopted 65 draft resolutions. Bill Dunfey-Committee on Decolonization

The Question of Apartheid.

Implementation of the Declaration on Granting Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples.

The Question of Namibia.

Information from Non-Self-Governing Territories.

Question of Southern Rhodesia.

Question of East Timor.

Implementation of the Declaration on Granting Independence . . . by the Specialized Agencies of the United Nations.

Activities of Foreign Economic and Other Interests.

UN Educational and Training Program for Southern Africa.

Offers by Member States of Study and Training Facilities for Inhabitants of Non-Self-Governing Territories.

This committee held 37 meetings and adopted 19 draft resolutions.

George Sadler, counsellor-Fifth Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Affairs

Scale of assessments.

Financial reports and accounts.

Pattern of conferences.

Financing of UNEF and UNDOF (extension of authority to enter into commitments for the Force).

Composition of the Secretariat.

Amendment to the staff rules.

Financing of UNIFIL (extension of authority to enter into commitments for the Force).

Report of the ICSC.

Report of the U.N. Joint Staff Pension Fund.

Joint Inspection Unit.

Report of the Economic and Social Council as they relate to the proposed program and budget.

Financial emergency of the United Nations.

Administrative and budgetary coordination.

Financing of UNEF and UNDOF.

Financing of UNIFIL.

Proposed programme budget for 1980-81.

Programme budget for 1978-79-Performance Report.

The Fifth Committee held 88 meetings and adopted draft resolutions.

Herbert Reis and Robert Rosenstock, legal counsellors-Sixth Committee on Legal Affairs

Report of the International Law Commission on the work of its 31st session; Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its 12th session;

State of signatures and ratification of the Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 concerning the respect for human rights in armed conflicts: Report of the Secretary General;

United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law: Report of the Secretary General; Measures to prevent international terrorism which endangers or takes innocent human lives or jeopardizes fundamental freedoms, and study of the underlying causes of those forms of terrorism and acts of violence which lie in misery, frustration, grievance and despair, and which cause some people to sacrifice human lives, including their own, in an attempt to effect radical changes: Report of the ad hoc Committee on International Terrorism;

Drafting of an international convention against the taking of hostages: Report of the ad hoc Committee on the Drafting of an International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages;

Report of the Special Committee on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization;

Report of the Committee on Relations with the Host Country;

Report of the Special Committee on Enhancing the Effectiveness of the Principle of Nonuse of Force in International Relations;

Registration and publication of treaties and international agreements pursuant to article 102 of the Charter of the United Nations: Report of the Secretary General;

Resolutions adopted by the United Nations Conference on the Representation of States in their Relations with International Organizations, including resolution relating to the observer status of national liberation movements recognized by the Organization of African Unity and/or by the League of Arab States; and Resolution relating to the application of the convention in future activities of international organizations;

Consolidation and progressive development of the principles and norms of international economic law relating in particular to the legal aspects of the new international economic order.

The Sixth Committee held 62 meetings and adopted 14 draft resolutions.

Recalling and reaffirming its resolutions 3236 (XXIX) of 22 November 1974, 3375 (XXX) and 3376 (XXX) of 10 November 1975, 31/20 of 24 November 1976, 32/40 A and B of 2 December 1977 and 33/28 A to C of 7 December 1978,

Having considered the report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, 25/

Having heard the statement of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the representative of the Palestinian people, 26/

1. Expresses its grave concern that no just solution to the problem of Palestine has been achieved and that this problem therefore continues to aggravate the Middle East conflict, of which it is the core, and to endanger international peace and security;

2.

Reaffirms that a just and lasting peace in the Middle East cannot be established without the achievement, inter alia, of a just solution of the problem of Palestine on the basis of the attainment of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the right of return and the right to national independence and sovereignty in Palestine, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations;

24/ United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Records of the General Conference, Sixteenth Session, vol. 1, Resolutions, pp. 135-141.

25/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 35 (A/34/35). 26/ See A/34/PV.77.

3. Calls once more for the invitation of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the representative of the Palestinian people, to participate, on the basis of General Assembly resolution 3236 (XXIX), in all efforts, deliberations and conferences on the Middle East which are held under the auspices of the United Nations, on an equal footing with other parties;

4. Endorses the recommendations of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People as contained in paragraphs 52 to 55 of its report;

5. Expresses its regret and concern that the recommendations of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolutions 31/20, 32/40 A and 33/28 A have not been implemented;

6. Notes with regret that the Security Council has not taken the action it was urged to take by the General Assembly in paragraph 4 of its resolution 32/40 A;

7. Once again urges the Security Council to consider and take as soon as possible a decision on the recommendations endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolutions 31/20, 32/40 A and 33/28 A and 'in the present resolution;

8. Authorizes and requests the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, in the event of the Security Council failing to consider or to take a decision on those recommendations by 31 March 1980, to consider that situation and to make the suggestions it deems appropriate;

9. Decides to include the item entitled "Question of Palestine" in the provisional agenda of its thirty-fifth session.

B

The General Assembly,

Recalling and reaffirming the declaration, contained in paragraph 4 of its resolution 33/28 A of 7 December 1978, that the validity of agreements purporting to solve the problem of Palestine requires that they be within the framework of the United Nations and its Charter and its resolutions on the basis of the full attainment and exercise of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the right of return and the right to national independence and sovereignty in Palestine, and with the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization,

Taking note of paragraphs 33 to 35 of the report of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, 27/

1. Notes with concern that the Camp David accords have been concluded outside the framework of the United Nations and without the participation of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the representative of the Palestinian people;

2. Rejects those provisions of the accords which ignore, infringe upon, violate or deny the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including the right of return, the right of self-determination and the right to national independence and sovereignty in Palestine, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations, and which envisage and condone continued Israel occupation of the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967;

3. Strongly condemns all partial agreements and separate treaties which constitute a flagrant violation of the rights of the Palestinian people, the principles of the Charter and the resolutions adopted in the various international forums on the Palestinian issue;

4. Declares that the Camp David accords and other agreements have no validity in so far as they purport to determine the future of the Palestinian people and of the Palestinian territories occupied by Israel since 1967.

27/ Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 35 (A/34/35).