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GENERAL

CERD/SP/64/Add.1
8 December 2001

Original: ENGLISH

Provisional Agenda : . 08/12/2001.
CERD/SP/64/Add.1. (Meeting of States Parties)

Convention Abbreviation: CERD
MEETING OF STATES PARTIES
Nineteenth meeting
New York, 17 January 2002

ANNOTATIONS TO THE PROVISIONAL AGENDA


Submitted by the Secretary-General


Item 6. Other matters


1. By its decision 1 (56) of 24 March 2000, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination requested that its fifty-eighth session be held at United Nations Headquarters from 8 to 26 January 2001, in order to examine with priority the reports of the States parties which encounter difficulties in attending meetings of the Committee in Geneva. The Committee requested the General Assembly to take appropriate measures to implement the Committee's decision (Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/55/18), para. 13).

2. By its decision 55/419 of 4 December 2000, the General Assembly took note of decision 1 (56) of the Committee and decided to refer that decision back to the Committee for further consideration and consultation with States parties to the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

3. The Committee at its fifty-ninth session in August 2001 decided to be represented by its Chairman at the Nineteenth Meeting of States Parties to the Convention (Ibid., Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 18 (A/56/18), chap. X).

4. Accordingly, the Nineteenth Meeting of the States Parties may wish to invite the Chairman of the Committee to intervene under the present agenda item.


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