62ND UNGA GENERAL COMMITTEE - SECOND MEETING

UNCLAS USUN NEW YORK 000893 SIPDIS SIPDIS E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: PREL UNGA SUBJECT: 62ND UNGA GENERAL COMMITTEE - SECOND MEETING ¶1. At a meeting on October 19, the General Committee recommended to the General Assembly the following action on inscription and allocation of agenda items: (a) Inclusion of an item "Question of the Comorian Island of Mayotte" (A/BUR/62/1) - consideration deferred to the 63rd General Assembly. (b) Request for the inclusion of an additional item submitted by the Secretary-General entitled "Financing of the United Nations Mission in the Central African Republic and Chad" (A/62/231) - allocated to the Fifth Committee. (c) Request for the inclusion of an additional item submitted by Kazakhstan entitled "Observer Status for the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-building Measures in Asia" (A/62/232) - allocated to the Sixth Committee. (d) Request for the inclusion of an additional item submitted by Saudia Arabia entitled "Observer status for the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf" (A/62/233) - allocated to the Sixth Committee. (e) Request for the inclusion of an additional item submitted by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the Republic of Korea entitled "Peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula" (A/62/234) - allocated to the Plenary. ¶2. The Report of the Committee recommending the inscriptions and allocations will be considered by the General Assembly Plenary on Monday, October 23. ¶3. The items were introduced by their sponsors and except for the item on "Peace, security and reunification on the Korean peninsula" there was no discussion of the proposals. The Korean peninsula item, submitted and introduced by DPRK and the Republic of Korea, drew comments from Indonesia, Benin, China and Malaysia, all of whom expressed support. KHALILZAD