Assessment of the eleventh special session and of the thirty fifth regular session of the United Nations General Assembly from the point of view of the African Region

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is twofold: to provide information and report on those subjects which the Conference of Ministers at its previous meeting had submitted to the General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council and on which the Assembly had taken decisions, and to highlight those subjects which have arisen from the deliberations of the Economic and Social Council and the General' Assembly on which the conference of Ministers needs to take decisions or make comments and observations. This has been done in respect of two sessions of the General Assembly which have taken place since the fifteenth session of the Commission and the sixth meeting of the Conference of Ministers in April 1960, namely the eleventh special session and the thirty-fifth regular session of the Assembly.