GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS NINE ADDITIONAL ITEMS FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGENDA

Press Release
GA/9755/

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS NINE ADDITIONAL ITEMS FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGENDA

CORRECTION

On page 11 of Press Release GA/9755 issued 7 September, the fourth paragraph should read as follows:

AHCENE KERMA (Algeria) said that his delegation had always felt that this question had been resolved conclusively by General Assembly resolution 2758. That resolution had indeed made it possible to restore the rights of the People’s Republic of China, thus confirming the principle of a single China. The refusal of successive General Committees to include the issue on any General Assembly agenda only demonstrated the determination of a large number of Member States to abide by the spirit and letter of the resolution. Certain delegations, nevertheless, feel that the Republic of China on Taiwan should enjoy a solution which had been applied in the past to a certain number of cases. But that similarity had not been acknowledged or agreed upon and, thus, that solution should be rejected. For all those reasons, the issue under debate should not be included in the agenda of the fifty-fifth General Assembly.

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