Official Records · Fifty-first Session
Supplement No. 47 (A/51/47)
United Nations · New York, 8 August 1997
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Report of the Open-ended Working Group on the Question of Equitable Representation on and Increase in the Membership of the Security Council
and Other Matters Related to the Security Council
CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION
II. PROCEEDINGS OF THE WORKING GROUP DURING THE FIFTY-FIRST SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
III. RECOMMENDATIONS
Annexes
I. General Assembly resolution 48/26 of 3 December 1993
II. Paper submitted by the Chairman of the Working Group
III. Discussion paper submitted by Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Ireland, Portugal and Slovenia
IV. Working methods and transparency of the Security Council: non-paper submitted by the Bureau of the Working Group
V. Cluster II issues: negotiating paper submitted by the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries
VI. Cluster II: working paper submitted by Mongolia
VII. Statements made by the Vice-Chairmen of the Working Group
VIII. Increase in the membership of the Security Council and reform of its working methods: working paper submitted by the Group of Arab States
IX. Conference room paper submitted by the Bureau of the Working Group
X. Position paper submitted by Poland
XI. Texts adopted by the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries, submitted by Egypt on behalf of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries
XII. Harare Declaration of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organization of African Unity on the reform of the United Nations Security Council, submitted by Zimbabwe on behalf of the Organization of African Unity
XIII. Revised proposal for the enlargement of the Security Council submitted by Italy
