Second Committee
Documents before the Committee
♦ ITEM 16: Information and communication technologies for development
♦ ITEM 17: Macroeconomic policy questions:
(a) International trade and development
- A/66/15 (Part I) [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Trade and Development Board on its fifty-first executive session (Part I) (Supp. No. 15) (Geneva, 29-30 November 2010) - A/66/15 (Part II) [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Trade and Development Board on its fifty-second executive session (Part II) (Supp. No. 15) (Geneva, 11-12 April 2011) - A/66/15 (Part III) [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Trade and Development Board on its fifty-third executive session (Part III) (Supp. No. 15) (Geneva, 27 June-1 July 2011) - A/66/15 (Part IV) [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Trade and Development Board on its fifty-eighth regular session (Part IV) (Supp. No. 15) (Geneva, 12-23 September 2011) - A/66/138 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Secretary-General on unilateral economic measures as a means of political and economic coercion against developing countries
(b) International financial system and development
(c) External debt sustainability and development
(d) Commodities
♦ ITEM 18: Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the 2002 International Conference on Financing for Development and the 2008 Review Conference
- A/66/334 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Secretary-General on innovative mechanisms of financing for development - A/66/329 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Secretary-General on follow-up to and implementation of the Monterrey Consensus and Doha Declaration on Financing for Development - A/66/75-E/2011/87 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Summary by the President of the Economic and Social Council of the special high-level meeting of the Council with the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (New York, 10 and 11 March 2011)
♦ ITEM 19: Sustainable development:
- A/66/298 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R] A/66/298/Corr.1 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Secretary-General on the protection of coral reefs for sustainable livelihoods and development - A/66/337 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Secretary-General on international cooperation and coordination for the human and ecological rehabilitation and economic development of the Semipalatinsk region of Kazakhstan - A/66/87 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Letter dated 1 June 2011 from the Permanent Representative of Namibia to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General - A/66/388 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Letter dated 27 September 2011 from the Permanent Representative of Argentina to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
(a) Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development
- A/66/304 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Secretary-General on agricultural technology for 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
(c) International Strategy for Disaster Reduction
(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
- A/66/291 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the reports submitted by the secretariats of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought and/or Desertification, particularly in Africa, and the Convention on Biological Diversity (consolidated report: sub-items (d), (e) and (f))
(g) Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twenty-sixth session
(h) Harmony with Nature
(i) Sustainable mountain development
(j) Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy
♦ ITEM 20: 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)
- A/66/326 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report on the coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda (E/2011/106) - A/66/282 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Secretary-General on the third United Nations conference on housing and sustainable urban development - A/66/281 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Secretary-General on the 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 21: Globalization and interdependence:
(a) Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence
(b) Science and technology for development
(c) Development cooperation with middle-income countries
♦ ITEM 22: 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 23: Eradication of poverty and other development issues:
(a) Implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008-2017)
(b) Women in development
(c) Human resources development
♦ ITEM 24: Operational activities for development:
(a) Operational activities for development of the United Nations system
(b) South-South cooperation for development
♦ ITEM 25: Agriculture development and food security
- A/66/277 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Report of the Secretary-General on agriculture development and food security: progress on the implementation of the outcome of the World Summit on Food Security - A/66/76-E/2011/102 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting a note by the Chair of the Committee on World Food Security on the reform of the Committee and on progress made towards its implementation
♦ ITEM 26: Towards global partnerships
- A/66/137 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R] A/66/137/Corr.1 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
- A/66/137/Add.1 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Note by the Secretary-General on United Nations corporate partnerships: the role and functioning of the Global Compact
♦ ITEM 29: People's empowerment and a peace-centric development model
- No advance documentation requested
♦ ITEM 61: 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
- A/66/78-E/2011/13 [F] [S] [A] [C] [R]
Note by the Secretary-General on the economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan
♦ ITEM 121: Revitalization of the work of the General Assembly
- No advance documentation requested
Item is allocated to all the Main Committees for the sole purpose of considering and taking action on their respective tentative programmes of work for the sixty-seventh session of the General Assembly
♦ ITEM 135: Programme planning
- No advance documentation requested
Item is allocated to all the Main Committees and the plenary of the General Assembly to enhance discussion of evaluation, planning, budgeting and monitoring reports
[16 November 2011]
