text: included in items to be considered by the plenary Assembly and the Sixth Committee, or were within the competence of the Security Council. Although the United States would continue to maintain an open attitude with respect to the inclusion of items in the agenda, it believed that such items as the one under consideration were not necessary in a very heavy agenda; the item would merely detract from a session that was already quite overloaded and would not really contribute to lessening international tension. 78. The Committee decided to recommend that the General Assembly should include item 147 in the agenda. Section IV. Allocation of items Paragraph 34 79. The Committee decided to draw the General Assembly's attention to paragraph 4 of its decision 34/401, reproduced in paragraph 34 of the Secretary-General's memorandum. 80. It was so decided. Paragraph 35 81. The CHAIRMAN invited the Committee to take up the two items which had not been considered previously by the General Assembly and which were indicated in paragraph 35 of the Secretary-General's memorandum. 82. The USSR had proposed that item 146 should be allocated to the First Committee. 83. Mr. PETROVSKY (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) said that, since the proposal of the Soviet Union was intended to encourage States to do everything possible to take effective measures to prevent the arms race from being extended to / ... A/BUR/40/SR.l English Page l3 (Mr. Petrovsky, USSR) outer space, it was logical for the item to be allocated to the First Committee. On the other hand, the proposal also included concrete measures to develop international co-operation in that field under conditions of non-militarization, and for that reason it was connected to questions studied in the Special Political Committee in the context of item 76 (International co-operation in the peaceful 
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the allocation of items on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly, specifically with regards to international cooperation and arms control. The language used suggests that the items being considered are related to global security and disarmament, rather than economic or social development.