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GA/SHC/3411

THIRD COMMITTEE ELECTS OFFICERS, ADOPTS PROGRAMME OF WORK

The Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural) this afternoon elected Choe Myong Nam (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and Karim Wissa (Egypt) as Vice-Chairmen, and Monica Martinez (Ecuador) as Rapporteur. It also adopted its programme of work for the current session, which is scheduled to conclude on 28 November.

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GA/EF/2758

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GA/AB/3162

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GA/9301

GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS AGENDA AND ORGANIZATION OF WORK FOR FIFTY-SECOND SESSION; 158 ITEMS TO BE CONSIDERED

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GA/9300

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS 158 ITEMS FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGENDA

The General Committee this morning recommended that the fifty-second session of the General Assembly adopt an agenda of 158 items, including their allocation among the six Main Committees.

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GA/9299

GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS 156 ITEMS FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGENDA, WILL MEET TO CONSIDER THREE REMAINING ITEMS

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GA/9298

The fifty-second General Assembly could be "a watershed session" in which Member States would have the chance to revitalize the United Nations and enable it to address the mounting challenges it faced, its newly-elected President, Hennadiy Udovenko (Ukraine), said at the opening meeting this afternoon.

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GA/COL/2973*

SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON DECOLONIZATION CONCLUDES 1997 SESSION

Administering Powers were urged to take effective measures to safeguard and guarantee the inalienable right of the peoples in Territories under their administration to their natural resources, by the terms of one of three proposals approved by the Special Committee on decolonization this morning, as it concluded its work for the year.

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GA/9297

CURRENT GENERAL ASSEMBLY SESSION CAN MARK BEGINNING OF NEW ERA IN UNITED NATIONS HISTORY, PRESIDENT TELLS OPENING MEETING

Following is the text of the inaugural address given today by Hennadiy Udovenko, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, as President of the fifty- second session of the General Assembly: