Report of the Coordinating Bureau (Item 3 - on the
Agenda)
Ambassador Nugroho Wisnumurti presented the "Report of
the Coordinating Bureau" (NAC 11/ASO/Doc.3/Rev.1)
Consideration of the recommendations regarding the
preparations for the Eleventh Conference of Heads of State or Government (Item 4 on the
Agenda)
a. Organization of Work
In the interest of expediting work on the Draft Final Document, it was suggested that two
informal open working groups be informed, under the coordination of the host country, for
an initial reading of revision of said draft final document. The first group was given the
first two chapters and the second group took the last two chapters.
b. Election of Officers
The following officers were recommended:
a) Vice Chairmen:
- Africa: Angola, Sudan, Tanzania, Burundi, Gabon, Egypt, Ghana, Mali and Nigeria
- Asia: Iran, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Malaysia Myanmar, Palestine,
Papua New Guinea, Syria and Qatar
- Latin America and the Caribbean: Cuba, Guyana and Panama
- Europe: Cyprus and Malta
b) Rapporteur General: Nicaragua
c) Chairman of the Political Committee: Sri Lanka
d) Chairman of the Economic Committee: Zambia
The Conference recommended that Indonesia, as outgoing
Chairman, be made an ex-officio member of the Bureau, as is customary in the Movement.
c. Applications for admission of new members and for
participation as observers and guests.
As agreed at the meeting of the Coordinating Bureau held in New York on October 2, 1995,
the Preparatory Meeting at Ambassadorial/Senior Official Level decided to recommend that
the Preparatory Meeting at Ministerial Level for the Eleventh Conference of the
Non-Aligned Countries:
a) Accepting Turkmenistan as a Member of the Movement
b) Accepting Ukraine as a guest of the Movement
With regard to the admission of Bosnia-Herzegovina; and
Costa Rica as Members of the Movement and FYR Macedonia as guest, the Chairman of the
Preparatory Meeting at Ambassadorial/Senior Official Level, having consulted extensively
with Member Countries, stated that further consultation would be necessary and, to this
end, the matter is to be placed before the Preparatory Meeting at Ministerial Level for
consideration.
With regard to Japan's application for "guest
status", support to the application was voiced by the majority of Member Countries of
the Movement during the meeting, with the sole exception of the Democratic People's
Republic of Korea, which expressed its firm opposition. Further more, several other
States, while not opposing the Japanese application, considered it would be desirable to
hold further consultations on this matter. On this basis, it was recommended that these
issues be submitted to the Meeting at Ministerial Level for consideration.
Consideration of the provisional agenda of the Preparatory
Meeting at Ministerial Level (Item 5 on the Agenda)
The Preparatory Meeting at Ambassadorial/Senior Official
Level recommended the following agenda to the Preparatory Meeting at Ministerial Level.
1. Opening
2. Adoption of the agenda
3. Report by the Chairman of the Preparatory Meeting at Ambassadorial/Senior Official
Level
4. Recommendations regarding the preparations for the Eleventh Conference of Heads of
State or Government of the Non-Aligned Countries
a. Draft Provisional agenda
b. Election of officers
c. Organization of work
d. Application for admission of new members and for participation of
observers and guests
e. Draft final document
5. Consideration and adoption of the Report of the Preparatory Meeting at Ministerial
Level to the Eleventh Summit Conference
6. Other matters
Consideration and adoption of the report of the Preparatory
Meeting at Ambassadorial/Senior Official Level for the Preparatory Meeting at Ministerial
Level (Item 6 on the Agenda)
The Preparatory Meeting at Ambassadorial/Senior Official
Level adopted the report of the Meeting to be presented to the Preparatory Meeting at
Ministerial Level for consideration.
Other matters (Item 7 on the Agenda)
The Meeting agreed to recommend to the Ministerial Meeting
the Approval of Brazil, Mexico and Kyrgyzstan's (observers of the Movement) and Slovenia's
request (guest of the Movement) to address the Plenary of the XI Conference.
