The Co chairs are Mr. Tom Land from the United States of America, and Mr. David Okioga from Kenya.

He referred to the recommendations made by the participants at their previous meeting.

It was also suggested that the relationship between this paragraph and the previous one should be clarified.

The delegate had also attended a session of the Preparatory Committee for the Conference in New York prior to the main Conference together with some students who came as observers.

The above requirements relating to the additional meetings of the Committee and the pre session working group meetings are enumerated in the table below.

The representatives suggested that the Working Group enhance its cooperation links with other anti discrimination mechanisms set up before and after the World Conference.

(a) Authorizing the President of the General Assembly, to propose interactive debates on current issues on the agenda of the Assembly, in consultation with Member States

3. The fifty fourth session of the Commission is preceded by meetings of nine working groups in connection with the following items

At its ninth session, the Committee decided to convene a pre session working group for five days prior to each session to prepare lists of issues and questions relating to the periodic reports that would be considered by the Committee at the subsequent session.

At its ninth session, the Committee decided to convene a pre session working group for five days prior to each session to prepare lists of issues and questions relating to the periodic reports that would be considered by the Committee at the subsequent session.

38. The Committee had decided, at its ninth session, to convene a pre session working group for five days before each session to prepare lists of issues and questions relating to periodic reports that would be considered by the Committee at the session.

The Meeting of States Parties was preceded by a Meeting of Experts where measures relevant to agenda item 6 were discussed in detail.

Since the Summit, the participation of non governmental organizations in the work of the Commission for Social Development has increased markedly from one session to the next.

The Forum encourages organizers of pre sessional regional meetings of indigenous peoples to develop suggestions and recommendations for the Forum to consider and encourages its members to participate in such meetings.

More than 200 non governmental organizations took part in the process an unprecedented level of participation by civil society in a law making conference.

The President of the General Assembly usually consults with Member States prior to scheduling the consideration of the request by the Assembly.

At the end of each session, there will be an interactive dialogue with the observers.

The new parliament will be multi ethnically balanced, as is the current Afghan Government.

It encourages the State party to involve Parliament in a discussion of the report before its submission to the Committee.

200 years ago, in Parliament, in Great Britain, there was a long argument over economy versus morality.

General category organizations (87 at present) are concerned with most of the activities of UNCTAD.

The participants of the roundtable introduced their previous and intended measures in the fight against this problem.

In addition, holding a meeting of the Executive Committee before a Meeting of the Parties raises problems with regard to overlap with the Implementation Committee meeting.

15. The Committee had decided, at its ninth session, Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty fifth Session, Supplement No. 38 and corrigendum (A 45 38 and Corr.1), paras. 28 31. to convene a pre session working group for five days before each session to prepare lists of questions relating to second and subsequent periodic reports that would be considered by the Committee at the session.

15. The Committee had decided, at its ninth session, Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty fifth Session, Supplement No. 38 and corrigendum (A 45 38 and Corr.1), paras. 28 31. to convene a pre session working group for five days before each session to prepare lists of questions relating to second and subsequent periodic reports that would be considered by the Committee at the session.

The consensus of participants seemed to be that rule 28 of the rules of procedure for the congresses, which required that draft resolutions be submitted four months in advance of each congress, should be retained.

In this connection, the General Assembly considered that the agreement between the secretariats of the United Nations and the former General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was still in force until the Assembly reviewed the agreement between the United Nations and WTO.

The agreement with the host country should be confirmed no less than 18 months before the convening of the Congress.

Throughout the three day Conference participants will have multiple opportunities to dialogue with a variety of stakeholders to voice their views, expand their networks and interact with representatives of Member States on the eve of the High level Plenary Meeting of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly.

The draft text was similar to the resolutions adopted at previous sessions on that question and it was hoped that it would be supported by the Committee.

The Sub Commission has a meetingmeets with the Bureau of the Commission, but this usually occurs before the Sub Commission's consideration of agenda item 2, and is a closed meeting.

Currently UNCTAD is cooperating with DPCSD in preparation for the UNCED review conference in June 1997, to be known as Rio 5. In the process of implementation of Agenda 21, UNCTAD acts as task manager for trade and environment.

We see the meeting as an opportunity to engage with all key stakeholders about the way forward.

Before we proceed further, I should like to consult the Assembly with a view to proceeding with the consideration of draft resolutions A 60 L.22 and A 60 L.23 today.

58. The participants at the third meeting had also recommended that the Chairperson of the meeting should meet annually with the Secretary General.

Efforts are being made to facilitate this event and to share the experience with the participants at the session of the SAICM Preparatory Committee.

This is to be made available to the participants, in all languages, at least 10 working days before their consideration.

The pivotal need to reach agreement on key substantive issues and details in Geneva prior to MC6 was stressed.

V. Pre Congress consultations

The business summit that met before the Bandung summit will be convened in tandem with future political summits.

Four sessions of the Preparatory Committee, as well as three regional meetings and hundreds of other pre Conference meetings had preceded the Conference.

The Council continuously monitors the implementation of action plans of the preceding world conferences like the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, the World Conference on Human Rights, the International Conference on Population and Development and the World Summit for Social Development as member of the relevant NGO forums in Germany.

The air travel of participants proved to be the main source of GHG emissions for previous international and regional meetings.

Work of the pre sessional working group

23. A pre sessional working group meets, for five days, prior to each of the Committee apos s sessions.