Economic and Social Council: Press Release


ECOSOC/5659
8 July 1996


Press Release
ECOSOC/5659


UN DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES MUST NOT INFRINGE ON GOVERNMENTS' ROLE, COSTA RICA TELLS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

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United Nations operational activities for development must not arrogate to themselves an increasingly normative role, as that could only be the domain of national governments accountable to their own people, the representative of Costa Rica told the Economic and Social Council this morning.