Conference room paper submitted by the Bureau of the Working Group, entitled Suggested general observations and recommendations for inclusion in the 2000 report of the Working Group I. Introduction 1. 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 began its deliberations in January 1994. The present report has been prepared and submitted pursuant to that decision. Proceedings of the Working Group during the fifty-fourth session of the General Assembly 5. A total of 32 meetings were held during the five sessions, during which delegations made written as well as oral proposals related to the issues discussed.
All proposals remain on the table.
The Working Group affirmed that the work of the General Assembly on Security Council reform should be conducted in conformity with the relevant Assembly resolutions, fully respecting the need for transparency and open-endedness. A. First session of the Working Group 7. The Working Group agreed that cluster I and cluster II issues should continue to be considered by the Working Group in tandem, meaning that the Working Group should, in terms of time and emphasis, consider cluster I and cluster II issues in a similar and balanced manner. Meetings of the Working Group were chaired, when the Chairman of the Working Group was not present, by each of the Vice-Chairmen alternately. The Working Group completed a reading of this conference room paper that had been begun but not completed by the Working Group in 1999.