NEW ASSEMBLY SESSION

Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29270, 30 July 1960, Page 3

NEW ASSEMBLY SESSION

73 Items On Agenda (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, July 27. A 73-item agenda for the forthcoming United Nations General Assembly was published yesterday as the United Nations rode a wave of enhanced prestige resulting from its success in meeting the Congo crisis. , The Assembly is due to open on September 20 and will last about three months. The session will mark the entry of a number of new nations, which may take total membership from the present 82 to more than 90. A number of perennial items which so far have resisted solution again were included in yesterday’s document, which may be supplemented by additional questions in a further list due for presentation in a month. Disarmament, nuclear weapons tests, and outer space are all included in the proposed agenda. With the scheduled entry of a nhmber of new African member States, racial matters and matters related to the future of still-de-pendent States are expected to occupy much of the time of the Assembly and its committees. The problem of South-west Africa is on the agenda. Some African members have threatened International Court action to gain South Africa’s compliance with various Assembly resolutions on the territory. South-west Africa is administered by the Union Government ’ under a League of Nations mandate. The United Nations has tried in wain to bring the territory into its own trusteeship system. South Africa is expected to come under fire, too. when the Assembly begins discussing the Union Government’s apartheid policies.