UN General Assembly
1962

61. The ever-increasing contribution made by the new Member States which have entered the Organization since 1956 and the growing number of items on the General Assembly's agenda have obliged the Assembly to hold longer regular sessions, the last of which involved twenty-four weeks of work. The President of the sixteenth session, in a memorandum [A/5123], drew the attention of Member States to this situation and to certain suggestions for the improvement of the General Assembly's methods of work. The Tunisian delegation requested the inclusion of this item in the agenda of the current session [see A/5165], in the hope that its early examination would make it possible for us to conclude our work expeditiously, without in any way restricting freedom of discussion. My delegation is happy to note that this question has attracted the interest of many other delegations which, like our own, wish to see the General Assembly carry out its tasks in the shortest possible time and with maximum effectiveness.