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GA/9302
SECRETARY-GENERAL URGES MEMBER STATES TO REACH CONSENSUS ON HIS REFORM PROPOSALS BEFORE END OF SESSION, TO BE KNOWN AS 'REFORM ASSEMBLY'
19970922 United States President Says He Is Working with Congress On Legislation that 'Will Allow Us to Pay Off the Bulk of Our Arrears'
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GA/SHC/3411
THIRD COMMITTEE ELECTS OFFICERS, ADOPTS PROGRAMME OF WORK
19970919The 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
19970919 Secretary-General to Make Brief Presentation of His Report On Work of Organization to Plenary before Opening of General Debate
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GA/9300
GENERAL COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS 158 ITEMS FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY AGENDA
19970918 Speakers Express Concern over Mechanism To Be Set Up for Proper And Detailed Consideration of Measures and Proposals for United Nations ReformThe 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
19970917 Approves New Items on Administrative Tribunal, Negotiating Principles; Item on Taiwan, Republic of China, Not Recommended, After 47-Speaker Debate
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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.