Sixty-second General Assembly

Plenary

30^th Meeting (PM)

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADDS FOUR ITEMS TO AGENDA

 

The General Assembly today added four items to its current agenda, among them a request by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea to consider a resolution drafted jointly by the two sides calling on the United Nations to support peaceful reunification of the Korean peninsula following the historic summit between the leaders of the two Koreas in Pyongyang earlier this month.

Acting on the recommendations of its General Committee, the Assembly added to its 2007-2008 agenda an item on “Peace, Security and Reunification on the Korean Peninsula”, and that the item and related draft resolution (document A/62/234) be considered directly in a plenary meeting.

In its current form, the draft would have the Assembly recognize that the summit meeting held from 2 to 4 October and the Declaration, signed by the two sides, on the Advancement of North-South Korean Relations, Peace and Prosperity “represented a major milestone in improving inter-Korean relations and in advancing peace and common prosperity on the Korean peninsula and in the wider region as well”.

In other action, the Assembly, acting on the request of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, decided to include on its agenda an item on the financing of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad (MINURCAT), and allocate that item to the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary).

The Assembly added two items on observer status for two groups: the Cooperation Council of the Arab States of the Gulf Region (document A/62/233), and the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (document A/62/232).  Consideration of both was allocated to the Sixth Committee (Legal).

Finally, the Assembly deferred its item on the “Question of the Comorian Island of Mayotte”, (document A/BUR/62/1) to its sixty-third session and be included in the provisional agenda of that session.

The General Assembly will reconvene at 10 a.m. Tuesday, 23 October, to open its two-day High-Level Dialogue on Financing for Development.

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