HIGHEST LEVEL COORDINATION BODY IN UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM MEETS AT GENEVA
Press Release
SG/2032
HIGHEST LEVEL COORDINATION BODY IN UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM MEETS AT GENEVA
19970411 GENEVA, 10 April (UN Information Service) -- The Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC), the highest level coordination body in the United Nations system, is currently holding a two-day meeting at the United Nations Office at Geneva, which began today.The ACC holds two annual sessions: the first at the headquarters of one of its member organizations, and the second at Headquarters in New York. At each session, ACC considers two or three substantive issues, as well as administrative questions.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan is presiding over the meeting in his capacity as Chairman of the ACC. For the first time in the last several years, the session is attended by all the heads of agencies, funds and programmes personally. Attending the session are the following: Director-General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Michel Hansenne; Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Jacques Diouf; Director-General of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Federico Mayor; Secretary-General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Philippe H.P. Rochat; Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Dr. Hiroshi Nakajima; President of World Bank, James D. Wolfensohn; Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Michel Camdessus; Director-General of the Universal Postal Union (UPU), Thomas E. Leavey; Secretary-General of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Pekka J. Tarjanne; Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), G. O. P. Obasi; Secretary-General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), William A. O'Neil; Director-General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Arpad Bogsch; President of the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Fawzi Hamad Al-Sultan; Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), Mauricio de Maria y Campos; Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Hans Blix; Director-General of World Trade Organization (WTO), Renato Ruggiero; Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Rubens Ricupero; Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Elizabeth Dowdeswell; High Commissioner
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of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Sadako Ogata; Commissioner-General of United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), Peter Hansen; Executive Director of World Food Programme (WFP), Catherine Ann Bertini; Executive Director of United Nations International Drug Control Programme (UNDCP), Giorgio Giacomelli; Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), James Gustave Speth; Executive Director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Carol Bellamy; and Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Dr. Nafis Sadik.
Also attending the session were the Executive Coordinator for United Nations Reform, Maurice Strong, and the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva, Vladimir Petrovsky.
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