Programme of Work of the 2nd Committee for the 67th Session of the General Assembly

A/DEC/66/551View PDF

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A Decision of the General Assembly, under agenda item 121 Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly, published in 2012.

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2019	A/DEC/73/544	Programme of work of the 2nd Committee for the 74th session of the General Assembly	—	—
2015	A/DEC/69/548	Programme of work of the 2nd Committee for the 70th session of the General Assembly	—	—
2014	A/DEC/68/546	Programme of work of the 2nd Committee for the 69th session of the General Assembly	—	—
2013	A/DEC/67/549	Programme of work of the 2nd Committee for the 68th session of the General Assembly	—	—
2012	A/DEC/66/551	Programme of work of the 2nd Committee for the 67th session of the General Assembly	481	—

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At its 91st plenary meeting, on 22 December 2011, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Second Committee,79 approved the programme of work of the Committee for the sixty-seventh session of the Assembly as set out below:

Item 1.

Information and communications technologies for development

Item 2.

Macroeconomic policy questions:

(a) International trade and development

(b) International financial system and development

Item 3.

Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development and the 2008 Review Conference

Item 4.

Sustainable development:

(a) Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development

(b) Follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States

_______________ 76 A/66/445. 77 See A/66/445/Add.2, para. 19. 78 Report of the United Nations Conference on Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries, Buenos Aires, 30 August–12 September 1978 (United Nations publication, Sales No. E.78.II.A.11 and corrigendum), chap. I. 79 A/66/450, para. 8.

(d) Protection of global climate for present and future generations of humankind

(e) Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification,

Particularly in Africa

(f) Convention on Biological Diversity

(g) Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twelfth special session

(h) Harmony with Nature

(i) Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy

Item 5.

Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

Item 6.

Globalization and interdependence: international migration and development

Item 7.

Groups of countries in special situations:

(a) Follow-up to the Fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries

(b) Specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries: outcome of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation

Item 8.

Eradication of poverty and other development issues:

(a) Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008–2017)

(b) Industrial development cooperation

Item 9.

Operational activities for development:

(a) Quadrennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system

(b) South-South cooperation

Item 10.

Agriculture development and food security

Item 11.

Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory,

including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources

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