Six facilitators have proposed that the New York-based United Nations General Assembly break with decades of tradition and divide its burdensome autumn workload into two parts to be covered in the fall and spring, the spokeswoman for Assembly President Julian Hunte said Monday.
The economic and financial committee (second) and the social, humanitarian and cultural committee (third) would meet from September to December.
The committee dealing with disarmament matters (first), that covering decolonization and special political questions (fourth) as well as the legal (sixth) committee would meet in the northern spring. The UN budget committee (fifth) would convene during both sessions.
The informal proposals, submitted by the representatives of Algeria, Jamaica, the Netherlands, Singapore, Slovenia and South Africa, came in response to an Assembly resolution in December calling for widespread reform of that bodys work.
The Assembly will consider these proposals, along with recommendations by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and make decisions by July.
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