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UNITED NATIONS

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NATIONS UNIES

agenda of the World Assembly (see annex I, attached) be allocated

to plenary meetings; and items 5, 6 and 7 to the Main Committee.

Organization of the work of the Assembly

Your attention is drawn to the following recommendations

made by the Advisory Committee at its second and third sessions

which are based on past practice of the United Nations special

conferences and on the "Guidelines on the preparation, organiz-

ation and servicing arrangements of special conferences of

the United Nations and their preparatory meetings" which are

annexed to General Assembly resolution 35/10 of 3 November 1980.

(a) Meetings shall normally be scheduled from 10.00 a.m.

to 1.00 p.m. and from 3.00 to 6.00 p.m. and they shall

start punctually;

(b) The general debate shall be held in plenary meetings

starting on 26 July 1982 in the afternoon and shall be con-

cluded by Tuesday, 3 August 1982; there shall be no

general debate in the Main Committee;

(c) The list of speakers in the general debate shall

be closed at noon on Wednesday, 28 July 1982, at Vienna;

(a) The time-limit for statements in the general debate

should be 15 minutes for the representative of each State,

and 10 minutes for other participants;

(e) Statements in the exercise of the right of reply shall

be made at the end of the day whenever two meetings have

been scheduled for that day and whenever such meetings are

devoted to the consideration of the same item; the number

of interventions in the exercise of the right of reply for

any delegation at a given meeting should be limited to two

per item;

the first intervention should be limited to five

minutes and the second intervention should be limited to

three minutes.