COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT REVIEWS ACTIVITIES OF ACC TASK FORCES IN DIALOGUE WITH AGENCY OFFICIALS CORRECTION

Press Release
SOC/4415/

COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT REVIEWS ACTIVITIES OF ACC TASK FORCES IN DIALOGUE WITH AGENCY OFFICIALS CORRECTION

In Press Release SOC/4415 of 25 February, the statements of the representatives of the Netherlands and Nicaragua were incorrectly attributed. Their paragraphs should have read as follows:

The representative of the Netherlands said he was happy with the cooperation between the tasks forces and the Bretton Woods institutions. He welcomed anything in the direction of effectiveness, efficiency and the strengthening of the United Nations system, adding that such process would start with the strengthening of the intergovernmental process. Beyond that, he remarked that the international system could be overloaded with the sheer volume of targets being set at the conferences and meetings. On the issue of common framework, he noted that they were often common only on the issue being discussed at the time; there were no common databases across issues to draw upon. In the days of computers, that should not be a problem. He further asked the chairpersons of the task forces to specify areas in which the Commission could be helped.

The representative of Nicaragua said that the question of resources was one to be concerned with. Whatever the efforts made by countries to achieve the objectives set by conferences, there could be no progress in the absence of resources. How were the task forces working to overcome that obstacle? she asked.

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