PART IV CONSULTATION WITH THE COUNCIL
Provisional agenda 27.- The provisional agenda of the Council shall be
communicated to organizations in general consultative status and
special consultative status and to those on the Roster. 28.- Organizations in general consultative status may
propose to the Council Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations
that the Committee request the Secretary-General to place items of
special interest to the organizations in the provisional agenda of the
Council. Attendance at meetings 29.- Organizations in general consultative status and
special consultative status may designate authorized representatives
to sit as observers at public meetings of the Council and its
subsidiary bodies. Those
on the Roster may have representatives present at such meetings
concerned with matters within their field of competence.
These attendance arrangements may be supplemented to include
other modalities of participation. Written statements 30.- Written statements relevant to the work of the
Council may be submitted by organizations in general consultative
status and special consultative status on subjects in which these
organizations have a special competence.
Such statements shall be circulated by the Secretary-General of
the United Nations to the members of the Council, except those
statements that have become obsolete, for example, those dealing with
matters already disposed of and those that had already been circulated
in some other form. 31.- The following conditions shall be observed
regarding the submission and circulation of such statements: (a) The written statement shall be submitted in one of
the official languages; (b) It shall be submitted in sufficient time for
appropriate consultation to take place between the Secretary-General
and the organization before circulation; (c) The organization shall give due consideration to
any comments that the Secretary-General may make in the course of such
consultation before transmitting the statement in final form; (d) A written statement submitted by an organization in
general consultative status will be circulated in full if it does not
exceed 2,000 words. Where
a statement is in excess of 2,000 words, the organizations shall
submit a summary which will be circulated or shall supply sufficient
copies of the full text in the working languages for distribution.
A statement will also be circulated in full, however, upon a
specific request of the Council or its Committee on Non-Governmental
Organizations; (e) A written statement submitted by an organization in
special consultative status or on the Roster will be circulated in
full if it does not exceed 500 words.
Where a statement is in excess of 500 words, the organization
shall submit a summary which will be circulated; such statements will
be circulated in full, however, upon a specific request of the Council
or its Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations; (f) The Secretary-General, in consultation with the
President of the Council, or the Council or its Committee on
Non-Governmental Organizations, may invite organizations on the Roster
to submit written statements. The
provisions of subparagraphs (a), (b), (c) and (e) above shall apply to
such statements; (g) A written statement or summary, as the case may be,
will be circulated by the Secretary-General in the working languages,
and, upon the request of a member of the Council, in any of the
official languages. Oral presentations during meetings 32.- (a) The Council Committee on Non-Governmental
Organizations shall make recommendations to the Council as to which
organizations in general consultative status should make an oral
presentation to the Council and on which items they should be heard.
Such organizations shall be entitled to make one statement to
the Council, subject to the approval of the Council.
In the absence of a subsidiary body of the Council with
jurisdiction in a major field of interest to the Council and to
organizations in special consultative status, the Committee may
recommend that organizations in special consultative status be heard
by the Council on the subject in its field of interest; (b) Whenever the Council discusses the substance of an
item proposed by a non-governmental organization in general
consultative status and included in the agenda of the Council, such an
organization shall be entitled to present orally to the Council, as
appropriate, an introductory statement of an expository nature.
Such an organization may be invited by the President of the
Council, with the consent of the relevant body, to make, in the course
of the discussion of the item before the Council, an additional
statement for purposes of clarification. |