Economic issues

Economic and Social Council

52^nd Meeting (AM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL, RESUMING 2003 SESSION, HEARS FROM AD HOC GROUP

ON ACTIVITIES IN SUPPORT OF BURUNDI

President Briefs Members on Preparations

For April 2004 Meeting with Bretton Woods, UN Trade Agency

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

40^th Meeting (AM)

SECOND COMMITTEE, CONCLUDING SESSION, APPROVES TEXT URGING GREATER

EFFORTS FOR CONCLUSION OF DOHA TRADE NEGOTIATIONS

Delegates Also Approve Drafts on External Debt,

Small Island States, Financing for Development, Biodiversity

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

39^th Meeting (PM)

SECOND COMMITTEE DEFERS ACTION ON DRAFTS OVER TRANSLATION HITCH

The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) adjourned its meeting this afternoon before acting on any draft resolutions, after the representatives of France and the Russian Federation objected that the texts had not been translated into all six official United Nations languages.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

38^th Meeting (PM)

SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT RESOLUTION STRESSING NEED

FOR SPEEDY RESUMPTION, CONCLUSION OF DOHA WORK PROGRAMME

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

37^th Meeting (PM)

SECOND COMMITTEE URGES CREATION OF GENDER-SENSITIVE LEGAL

ENVIRONMENT AS IT APPROVES TEXT ON WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

36^th Meeting (PM)

SECOND COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS PROCLAMATION OF INTERNATIONAL DECADE

ON ‘WATER FOR LIFE’, 2005-2015

Texts Also Approved on Palestinian Sovereignty over Natural

Resources, Coercive Economic Measures, UN-HABITAT, UNEP, Science for Development

STRENGTHENED GLOBAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY INDICATED BY UN ECONOMIC SURVEY OF EUROPE

(Reissued as received.)

ECONOMIC POLICY KEY TO WORLD ANTI-POVERTY FIGHT SAYS UN

NEW YORK, 8 December (United Nations Department of Public Information) -- Economic policies geared to generating sustainable growth can serve as powerful mechanisms for fighting poverty, especially when ancillary economic and social policies are linked to the needs of the poor, concludes a United Nations report issued today.

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR EUROPE ENCOURAGES ORGANIZATIONS

AND GOVERNMENTS TO WORK TOGETHER FOR SECURE TRADE

GENEVA, 18 November (ECE) -- From 13 to 14 November 2003, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) and the World Customs Organization (WCO) hosted a meeting on trade security and trade facilitation.

Fifty-eighth General Assembly

Second Committee

35^th Meeting (PM)

SECOND COMMITTEE HEARS INTRODUCTION OF DRAFT RESOLUTIONS ON DEVELOPMENT FINANCING,

COMMODITIES, GLOBALIZATION, NATURAL RESOURCES IN OCCUPIED TERRITORY