Submission of omnibus draft resolutions could be encouraged.

Australia welcomes paragraph 35 of the omnibus draft resolution.

The issue of marine debris in particular is an urgent matter, as noted in the omnibus draft resolution.

For the first time, consensus had been reached on the so called quot omnibus quot small Territories resolution.

In the UN General Assembly of 2003 the Netherlands took the initiative on an omnibus resolution on violence against women.

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Canada had reservations, however, as to the adoption by congresses of omnibus resolutions, even if the four month deadline applied.

New Zealand is pleased to once again co sponsor both the omnibus oceans draft resolution and the sustainable fisheries draft resolution.

The question of the merger of draft resolutions or changing free standing draft resolutions into omnibus texts should be left to the sponsors.

However, civil society organizations recently presented a draft omnibus bill to Parliament on the repeal of some legislation, as recommended by the Commission.

At the same meeting, the omnibus draft resolution on small territories was approved by the Fourth Committee without a vote, as orally revised.

I am particularly appreciative of the references in the omnibus draft resolution (A 60 L.22) to matters relating to the International Seabed Authority.

Because the omnibus draft resolution encourages all States parties to the Convention to attend the sessions of the International Seabed Authority, wider participation should be ensured.

The Committee considers that more use should be made of the possibilities offered by combining different resolutions and increasing the number of so called omnibus resolutions.

For that reason, Australia welcomes paragraph 50 of the omnibus draft resolution, and looks forward to working with other States to continue to address threats to maritime security.

The General Assembly recommends in its draft omnibus resolution that the Consultative Process should, at its next meeting, focus its discussions on the topic Ecosystem approaches and oceans .

24. The omnibus draft resolution on small Territories (A 52 23 (Part VI), chap. X, para. 20) as a whole, as orally revised, was adopted without a vote.

The SBI agreed to recommend an omnibus draft decision on administrative and financial matters (FCCC SBI 2004 L.15 Add.1) for adoption by the COP at its tenth session.

It also believed that those recommendations should be taken into account in the draft omnibus resolution on the rights of the child that the General Assembly would adopt during the current session.

His delegation would also support efforts to use decisions, rather than resolutions, for issues of a procedural nature, to shorten the text of resolutions, and to cluster related items into omnibus resolutions.

In our view, a major role of the meeting is to provide the General Assembly with an overview of the various issues falling under its broad scope, described in omnibus resolution 59 24.

The Special Committee could assist by requesting the competent units of the Secretariat to communicate with UNESCO regarding that matter and inserting an appropriate reference in the omnibus resolution of the Fourth Committee.

Its contribution to defending the rights of children should be recognized in the omnibus resolution on the rights of the child to be adopted by the General Assembly at its fifty first session.

The question of the girl child had a special place in the Committee s deliberations and the draft resolution on it should not be merged with the omnibus resolution on the item under consideration.

We welcome the continuation of the Process for the next three years on the same informal basis but note the need to strengthen and improve its efficiency, as recognized in the draft omnibus resolution.

Let me furthermore acknowledge the professional manner in which the coordinators, Commander Marcos de Almeida of Brazil and Ms. Holly Koehler of the United States, conducted the informal consultations on the omnibus and fisheries draft resolutions.

With regard to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, the omnibus draft resolution recognizes how important it is for States to exchange views in order to facilitate the preparation of submissions to the Commission.

The speaker was pleased that, in the omnibus resolution already adopted at the current session, the Special Committee had retained language requesting UNDP to provide for the participation of the United States Virgin Islands in its regional programmes.

66. Mr. Doudech (Tunisia) welcomed the spirit of cooperation and the wisdom shown by the administering Powers and by the Special Committee, which had succeeded in reaching consensus on the text of an omnibus resolution regarding small Territories.

The speaker, however, was puzzled by the deletion, from the omnibus resolution, of the request for participation of the United States Virgin Islands in the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) programme on archival and document management.

After consideration of the substantive agenda items, the Commission adopted an omnibus resolution, entitled Science and technology for development , which addressed all the major issues discussed at the third session, and recommended it for adoption by the Economic and Social Council.

21. Finally, an additional measure taken by the Third Committee is to encourage the drafting of comprehensive or omnibus resolutions for certain major issues which lend themselves to the development of a set of mutually supporting actions in a single text.

Furthermore, the implementing legislation for inter alia the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings will be contained in an Omnibus Act which will provide for the enabling legislation relating to Counter Terrorism Conventions to which Mauritius is party or intends to be party.

42. Mr. Hadjiyski (Bulgaria) said that, although his delegation supported draft resolution A C.3 52 L.61, it felt that the question with which it dealt should be included in the omnibus resolution on the situation of human rights in the former Yugoslavia.

Omnibus draft resolution on the questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena, Tokelau, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands (A 52 23 (Part VI), chap. X, para. 20)

Ms. Blitt (Canada), speaking also on behalf of Australia and New Zealand, said that the countries she represented had been among the most active co sponsors and supporters of the annual omnibus resolution on the rights of the child of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights.

Australia welcomes the reference in the omnibus draft resolution (A 60 L.23) to the Ministerial Declaration of the May 2005 Conference on the Governance of High Seas Fisheries and the United Nations Fish Agreement, entitled Moving from Words to Action and held in St. John's, Canada.

The United States Government provided 2 million to fund the construction of a temporary airport tower at the Pago Pago International Airport on 8 December 2004, as part of the Omnibus Appropriations Bill signed by the House of Representatives and the Senate on 20 November 2004.27

5. Since the draft omnibus resolution on the rights of the child also had an entire section devoted to refugee children, his delegation suggested that, in the future, consideration should be given to consolidating the General Assembly s action on unaccompanied refugee minors in a single text.

At the 9th meeting of the Committee, during the consideration of proposals relating to specific Territories, the United Kingdom orally proposed amendments to section IX (on St. Helena) of the omnibus draft resolution B contained in document A 52 23 (Part VI), chapter X, para. 20.

Omnibus draft resolution on the questions of American Samoa, Anguilla, Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guam, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena, Tokelau, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the United States Virgin Islands, submitted under agenda item 18 (A 52 23 (Part VI), chap. X, para. 20)

In view of the possibility and advisability of including the provisions of draft resolution A C.3 52 L.61 in the omnibus draft resolution on the situation of human rights in the former Yugoslavia, the insistence of the sponsors on a separate draft resolution seemed particularly incomprehensible and troubling.

In response to that decision, the Chairperson of the Guam Legislature s Committee on Federal and Foreign Affairs had called on members of the Committee to adopt the draft resolution, and the Guam Legislature had passed resolution No. 542 requesting the General Assembly to adopt the omnibus resolution on small Territories.

33. Ms. Morgan (Mexico) noted that under item 4, International drug control (p. 6 of the English text), the issues included for annual consideration by the Committee did not correspond strictly with the omnibus resolution on drugs that had been adopted by the Committee (A C.3 52 L.14 Corr.1).

As the Assistant Secretary General noted in his introductory statement, important resolutions were adopted by the General Assembly at its fifty first session in the field of children apos s rights, including on the girl child (resolution 51 76) and an omnibus resolution on the rights of the child (resolution 51 77).