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Economic issues


GA/EF/3080
14/10/2004
Press Release
GA/EF/3080

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

12th Meeting (PM)


ECONOMIC COMMITTEE TOLD OF PROGRESS BY UN-HABITAT IN EASING


problems of water supply, sanitation in slum areas

 


Agency Said to Need Increased Funds to Reach Millennium

Goals; Debate Concludes on Global Conference on Development Financing


(Issued on 15 October 2004.)

GA/EF/3078
12/10/2004
Press Release
GA/EF/3078

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

8th & 9th Meetings (AM & PM)


DEBT WRITE-OFF MUST BE TOP PRIORITY IN HELPING POOREST COUNTRIES


restore growth, meet millennium goals, second committee told


Continued Debt Servicing Makes It Impossible

For Them to Increase Savings, Boost Investment, Grow Their Economies


(Issued on 13 October 2004.)

GA/EF/3077
06/10/2004
Press Release
GA/EF/3077

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

6th & 7th Meetings (AM & PM)


INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY URGED TO BOOST AID TO LANDLOCKED DEVELOPING COUNTRIES,


SMALL ISLAND STATES AS SECOND COMMITTEE ENDS GENERAL DEBATE


High Transport Costs, Lack of Sea Access,

Remoteness, Natural Disasters Blamed for Increasing Marginalization


(Issued on 7 October 2004.)

ECOSOC/6138
16/09/2004
Press Release
ECOSOC/6138

Economic and Social Council acts on several items deferred from july session


As the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) met this afternoon to resume its 2004 substantive session, it took action on several items deferred from its regular session in July.

GA/EF/3074
16/09/2004
Press Release
GA/EF/3074

Fifty-ninth General Assembly

Second Committee

1st Meeting (AM)


Second Committee Approves Work Plan for Fifty-Ninth General Assembly Session


The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this morning approved its programme of work, as orally amended, for the fifty-ninth General Assembly session.

ECOSOC/6137-PI/1599
27/07/2004
Press Release
ECOSOC/6137
PI/1599


ECOSOC TO PROVIDE ADVICE, SUPPORT FOR HAITI’S


LONG-TERM RECONSTRUCTION, DEVELOPMENT


NEW YORK, 27 July -- Responding to a request from the Haitian transition government, the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) has approved the reactivation of its Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti.