SATURDAY, 21 JUNE 1997 No. 1997/119 (PART I)
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1. Opening of the session by the Chairman of the delegation of Malaysia.
2. Minute of silent prayer or meditation.
3. Appointment of the members of the Credentials Committee.
4. Election of the President.
5. Report of the Commission on Sustainable Development (A/S-19/14).
6. Organization of the session (A/S-19/2).
7. Adoption of the agenda (A/S-19/1).
8. Overall review and appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21: debate:
His Excellency Mr. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of the Federative Republic of Brazil.
His Excellency Cde. Robert Gabriel Mugabe, President of the Republic of Zimbabwe.
His Excellency Mr. Ryutaro Hashimoto, Prime Minister of Japan.
His Excellency Mr. Benjamin William Mkapa, President of the United Republic of Tanzania.
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Note: The PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS AND AGENDA and the SUMMARY OF SCHEDULED MEETINGS of bodies other than those of the General Assembly at its fifty-first session appear in PART II (English/French) of the present issue of the Journal (No. 1997/119 (PART II)).
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His Excellency Mr. Jos� Mar�a Aznar, President of the Government of the Kingdom of Spain.
His Excellency the Rt. Honourable Tony Blair, M.P., Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
His Excellency Dr. Helmut Kohl, Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
His Excellency Mr. Jacques Chirac, President of the French Republic.
His Excellency Mr. Ricardo M�rquez, Vice-President of the Republic of Per�.
His Excellency Mr. Nursultan A. Nazarbaev, President of the Republic of Kazakstan.
His Excellency Mr. Romano Prodi, Prime Minister of the Italian Republic.
His Excellency Dr. Carlos Sa�l Menem, President of the Republic of Argentina.
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Overall review and appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21: debate:
His Excellency Mr. Victor S. Chernomyrdin, Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
His Excellency Mr. Antonio Guterres, Prime Minister of the Portuguese Republic.
His Excellency Mr. Victor Ciorbea, Prime Minister of Romania.
His Excellency Mr. Thabo Mbeki, Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa.
His Excellency Mr. Thorbjoern Jagland, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Norway.
His Excellency Mr. Poul Nyrup Rasmussen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark.
His Excellency Mr. John Bruton, Prime Minister of Ireland.
His Excellency Mr. Kim Young Sam, President of the Republic of Korea.
His Excellency Mr. Jean-Luc Dehaene, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Belgium.
His Excellency Dr. Arnoldo Alem�n Lacayo, President of the Republic of Nicaragua.
His Excellency Mr. Jacob Nena, President of the Federated States of Micronesia.
His Excellency Mr. Ishembay Abdurazakov, Vice-President of the Kyrgyz Republic.
Her Excellency Ms. Julia Carabias, Minister of the Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries of Mexico.
His Excellency Mr. Sarwono Kusumaatmadja, Minister of State for the Environment of Indonesia.
Her Excellency Dr. Cielito F. Habito, Secretary for Socio-Economic Planning and Director-General of the National Development Authority of the Philippines.
His Excellency Mr. Pierre Schori, Minister for International Development Cooperation of Sweden.
His Excellency Senator The Honourable Robert Hill, Leader of the Government in the Senate and Minister for the Environment of Australia.
His Excellency Mr. Luciano Ciavatta, Minister for Territory, the Environment and Agriculture of San Marino.
His Excellency Dr. Song Jian, State Counsellor of China.
His Excellency Dr. Juan Gabito-Z�boli, Vice-Minister of the Environment of Uruguay.
His Excellency Mr. Utula U. Samana, CMG, Chairman of the Delegation of Papua New Guinea.
Mr. Abdelkader Mesdoua, Chairman of the Delegation of Algeria.
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1. Election of officers
2. Organization of work
3. General discussion
Permanent Representatives are reminded that credentials should be issued for all representatives to the nineteenth special session, in accordance with rule 27 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly, and are requested to submit such credentials to the Secretary-General at their earliest convenience.
The provisional list of speakers (No. 9) for the debate on the overall review and appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21 is now available at the General Assembly Secretariat Services Branch in Room S-3670J.
Today,, 23 June 1997, beginning at 9.45 a.m. in the General Assembly Hall, immediately prior to the opening of the nineteenth special session of the General Assembly devoted to an overall review and appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21, welcoming remarks will be delivered by H.E. Mr. Fernando Henrique Cardoso, President of the Federated Republic of Brazil (as host country of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development), and H.E. Mr. Albert Gore, Vice-President of the United States of America (as host country).
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Overall review and appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21: debate:
His Excellency Mr. Leonid D. Kuchma, President of Ukraine.
His Excellency Sir Ketumile Masire, President of the Republic of Botswana.
His Excellency Mr. Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, President of the Republic of Maldives.
His Serene Highness Prince Albert, Crown Prince of the Principality of Monaco.
His Excellency The Rt. Honourable Jean Chr�tien, Prime Minister of Canada.
His Excellency Mr. Jules Albert Wijdenbosch, President of the Republic of Suriname.
His Excellency Mr. Vytautas Pakalnikis, Acting Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania.
His Excellency Mr. Janez Drnovsek, Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia.
His Excellency Mr. David Oddsson, Prime Minister of the Republic of Iceland.
His Excellency Mr. Jos� Mar�a Figueres, President of the Republic of Costa Rica.
His Excellency Mr. Ricardo Alarc�n de Quesada, President of the National Assembly of the Republic of Cuba.
His Excellency Mr. Alvaro Arz� Irigoyen, President of the Republic of Guatemala.
His Excellency Mr. Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, President of the Republic of Bolivia.
His Excellency Dr. Bernardo Ferraz, Minister for the Environment of Mozambique.
His Excellency The Honourable Simon Upton, Minister for the Environment, Associate Minister for Foreign Affairs of New Zealand.
His Excellency The Honourable Easton Douglas, MP, Minister of the Environment and Housing of Jamaica.
His Excellency Mr. Ohn Gyaw, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Myanmar.
His Excellency Mr. Ivan Antonovich, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Belarus.
His Excellency Mr. Theodoros Koliopanos, Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Environment, Planning and Public Works of Greece.
Her Excellency Mrs. Ruth Dreifuss, Federal Chancellor of the Swiss Confederation.
His Excellency Mr. Jacques Santer, President of the European Community, speaking on behalf of the European Community.
Ms. Joji Carino of Survival International, speaking on behalf of the Indigenous Peoples' Major Group.
Mr. Mauricio De Mar�a y Campos, Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
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Overall review and appraisal of the implementation of Agenda 21: debate:
His Excellency Dr. Paulin Obame Nguema, Prime Minister of the Gabonese Republic.
His Excellency Mr. Adrien Houngbedji, Prime Minister of the Republic of Benin.
His Excellency Dr. Henrique Borgo-Bustamante, Vice-President of the Republic of El Salvador.
His Excellency Mr. Samuel Hinds, President of the Republic of Guyana.
His Excellency Dr. Carlos Lemos-Simmonds, Vice-President of the Republic of Colombia.
His Excellency Mr. Goh Chok Tong, Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore.
His Excellency Mr. Mart Siimann, Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia.
His Excellency Dr. Cuthbert Sebastian, Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis.
His Excellency The Honourable Gert Hanekom, Minister of the Environment and Tourism of Namibia.
His Excellency Mr. John Afful, Minister of the Environment, Science and Technology of Ghana.
His Excellency Mr. Albert Kakou Tiapani, Minister of the Environment of C�te d'Ivoire.
His Excellency Mr. Saifuddin Soz, Minister of the Environment and Forests of India.
His Excellency Mr. Jozef Zlocha, Minister of the Environment of Slovakia.
His Excellency Mr. Stanislaw Zelichowski, Minister of Environmental Protection, Natural Resources and Forestry of Poland.
His Excellency Mr. Samak Sundaravej, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand.
His Excellency Mr. Johny Lahure, Minister of the Environment of Luxembourg.
His Excellency Mr. Vartan Oskanian, First Deputy Foreign Minister of Armenia.
His Excellency Mr. Roble Olhaye, Chairman of the Delegation of Djibouti.
His Excellency Mr. Huseyin Clem, Chairman of the Delegation of Turkey.
His Excellency Dr. Nasser Al-Kidwa, Chairman of the Delegation of Palestine.
Ms. Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme.
Mr. Thilo Bode, Executive Director of Greenpeace International, speaking on behalf of the Non-Governmental Organizations' Major Group.
103rd plenary meeting
Agenda for development: report of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group of the General Assembly on an Agenda for Development (A/51/45) [96 (b)]
Statements were made by the representatives of Brazil, the Philippines, Indonesia, India, Guyana, China, Canada, the Russian Federation, South Africa, Japan, Malaysia, Peru and the Republic of Korea.
The General Assembly adopted the draft resolution contained in paragraph 7 of the report of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group (A/51/45) (resolution 51/240).
Statements in explanation of vote were made by the representatives of Argentina, Malta, the United Republic of Tanzania (speaking on behalf of the Group of 77 and China), the Netherlands (speaking on behalf of the European Union and
of Bulgaria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia), the United States, Lebanon, the Sudan, Guatemala and Gambia.
The President made a statement.
Statements were made by the Vice-Chairman of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group, H. E. Mr. Percy Metsing Mangoaela, Permanent Representative of Lesotho to the United Nations, and H. E. Mr. Michael John Powles, Permanent Representative of New Zealand to the United Nations.
The Assembly decided to conclude its consideration of sub-item (b) of agenda item 96.
The Assembly thus concluded its consideration of agenda item 96.
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