The Economic and Social Council this afternoon adopted four resolutions and one decision, all without a vote, recommended by the five regional commissions, as it continued its review of the work of those bodies.
The Economic and Social Council heard discussion of the regional implications of the Asian financial crisis, as it began consideration of regional cooperation this morning.
The untimely death yesterday of Mahbub ul Haq is a loss for the world, and especially for those of us who were privileged to know and work with him in the United Nations system, to which he contributed so much.
On page 4 of Press Release SC/6549 of 15 July 1998, Slovenia should be added to the list of sponsors of the draft resolution (document S/1998/642).
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On page 12 of Press Release ECOSOC/5769 of 9 July 1998, the first complete paragraph (beginning, "Unemployment hit women harder than men ...") was wrongly attributed to the representative of Kazakhstan.
This is the text of an address by Secretary-General Kofi Annan to the Argentine Council for International Relations in Buenos Aires:
