Economic issues

Press Release
ECO/16
PI/1220

`GLOBAL COMPACT’ WEB SITE LINKS UN, BUSINESS, CIVIL SOCIETY WITH SIMULTANEOUS LAUNCH IN NEW YORK, DAVOS, 28 JANUARY

Press Release
ECOSOC/5881

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL HOLDS ORGANIZATIONAL SESSION, ELECTS MAKARIM WIBISONO OF INDONESIA PRESIDENT FOR 2000

Makarim Wibisono (Indonesia) was elected President of the Economic and Social Council for the year 2000 this morning, as the Council met for its organizational meeting.

Press Release
ECO/15
PI/1219

BUSINESS CALLS FOR STRENGTHENED UNITED NATIONS

The international business community is urging governments to support the effectiveness, authority and resource base of the United Nations, while the world body continues its streamlining institutional reform, in a statement presented today to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan.

Press Release
GA/EF/2907

CONCLUDING WORK FOR FIFTY-FOURTH SESSION, SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES TEXTS ON GLOBALIZATION; FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT

Press Release
ECOSOC/5880

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL RECOMMENDS REVISED IDENTIFICATION CRITERIA FOR LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRY LIST

Also Elects New Members to World Food Programme Board, Accounting Standards Expert Group; Considers World Court Advisory Opinion

Press Release
GA/EF/2906

COMMITTEE SAYS INTERESTS OF NON-WTO STATES MUST BE CONSIDERED IN TRADE LIBERALIZATION CONTEXT

Two More Development-Related Decisions Approved; Action on Remaining Draft Resolutions Expected Tomorrow

Press Release
GA/EF/2905

SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES THREE DEVELOPMENT-RELATED DRAFTS

Vote Taken, at United States Request, on Draft Text Related to 'Stable International Financial System'

Press Release
GA/EF/2904

ANTI-CORRUPTION EFFORTS, LASTING SOLUTION TO EXTERNAL DEBT PROBLEM, ACTION ON POVERTY ERADICATION DECADE, CALLED FOR BY COMMITTEE

The General Assembly would urge all Governments, through anti-corruption and anti-bribery efforts, to create an enabling environment for business and investment, according to one of three draft texts approved this afternoon without a vote by the Second Committee (Economic and Financial).

Press Release
ECOSOC/5876/

NGO LOSES CONSULTATIVE STATUS WITH ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CORRECTION

On page 1 of Press Release ECOSOC/5876 issued 26 October, the fifth paragraph should read as follows:

Press Release
GA/EF/2903

SECOND COMMITTEE CALLS FOR STEPS TO COMBAT CORRUPT PRACTICES, BRIBERY; APPEALS FOR RESOURCES FOR HABITAT II IMPLEMENTATION

Defers Action on Poverty Eradication Decade