Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

14^th Meeting (AM)

INADEQUATE RESOURCES KEY ISSUE IN UN DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION,

SECOND COMMITTEE IS TOLD

Constraints, Priorities of Donors Also a Factor, Says Australia’s Representative

Economic and Social Council

Resumed 2001 Substantive Session

45^th Meeting (PM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ADOPTS TEXTS ADDRESSING COUNCIL PRESIDENT’S

RESOURCES, MALDIVES, LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, AMONG OTHERS

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

13^th Meeting (AM)

IMPACT OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN ON DEVELOPING COUNTRIES HIGHLIGHTED,

AS UNCTAD SECRETARY-GENERAL ADDRESSES SECOND COMMITTEE

Also, Executive Secretary for Climate Change Convention

Secretariat Tells Committee Parties Will Meet in Marrakech 29 October

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

11^th Meeting (AM)

SECOND COMMITTEE DEBATES STEPS TO HELP MEET

INTERNATIONAL POVERTY-ERADICATION GOALS

Speakers Discuss Proposed World Solidarity Fund to Combat Poverty

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

12^th Meeting (PM)

SECOND COMMITTEE CONCLUDES DEBATE ON FIRST DECADE FOR ERADICATION OF POVERTY

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

10^th Meeting (AM)

SECOND COMMITTEE BEGINS CONSIDERATION OF INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL SYSTEM,

EXTERNAL DEBT CRISIS AND DEVELOPMENT

Deteriorating Short-Term Outlook for Financial Flows

Economic and Social Council

Resumed 2001 Substantive Session

44^th Meeting (PM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL, AT RESUMED SUBSTANTIVE SESSION,

DECIDES TO GRANT OBSERVER STATUS TO NGO

Speakers Question Procedure Followed; Request Secretariat Report

FOLLOWING TERRORIST ATTACKS, UN REVISES FORECAST FOR WORLD ECONOMIC GROWTH IN 2001

TO 1.4 PER CENT; WARNS THAT LONG-RUN GROWTH RATE WILL BE ‘ADVERSELY AFFECTED’

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

9^th Meeting (AM)

AGREED POLICIES NEEDED TO PROTECT RIGHTS OF MIGRANTS,

GENERAL ASSEMBLY’S ECONOMIC COMMITTEE TOLD

Global Movement of Workers Said to Be Driving Force of Development

Fifty-sixth General Assembly

Second Committee

7^th Meeting (AM)

CONCERN VOICED IN SECOND COMMITTEE OVER WIDENING

GLOBAL ECONOMIC DISPARITIES

Never before was the world so collectively rich, so politically democratic, so economically globalized and yet so widely divided between the rich and the poor, Nepal's representative told the Second Committee this morning as it continued its general debate.