Sixty-third General Assembly

Second Committee

1^st Meeting (AM)

poverty eradication, financing for development, disaster reduction among key

 

topics for consideration as Second Committee approves organization of work

 

Poverty eradication, financing for development and disaster reduction strategies were among the topics approved for consideration by the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this morning, as it approved its organization of work for the sixty-third session of the General Assembly.

The Committee also approved its programme of work (document A/C.2/63/L.1), as orally revised, during the meeting, led by Chair Uche Joy Ogwu (Nigeria), who welcomed other members of the new Bureau:  Vice-Chairpersons Andrei Metelitsa (Belarus),Troy Torrington (Guyana) and Martin Hoppe (Germany); and RapporteurAwsan al-Aud (Yemen).

Issues slated for review included macroeconomic policy questions, including international trade, the international financial system and development, external debt and commodities; follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the International Conference on Financing for Development and preparation of the 2008 Review Conference; globalization and interdependence; information and communications technology; and poverty eradication, including the implementation of the Second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008-2017), and industrial development cooperation.

Other topics before the Committee included permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources; sustainable development; implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programmes (UN-HABITAT); operational activities for development; and groups of countries in special situations, such as least developed and landlocked developing countries.

The Second Committee will meet again at 10 a.m. on Monday, 6 October, to begin its general debate.

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