Press Release
GA/EF/2902
SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES SIX DRAFT TEXTS ON DEVELOPMENT
19991203Issues Include Environment and Sustainable Development, Habitat II, Sustainable Development and International Economic Cooperation
Issues Include Environment and Sustainable Development, Habitat II, Sustainable Development and International Economic Cooperation
The General Assembly would call on the Caribbean countries to develop further an integrated management approach to the Caribbean Sea area in the context of sustainable development, as proposed by one of three texts approved this afternoon by the Second Committee (Economic and Financial).
The General Assembly would call on the United Nations system to integrate gender mainstreaming into all its programmes and policies, as proposed by one of 14 texts approved this morning by the Second Committee (Economic and Financial).
Committee Approves Text on Coercive Measures Against Developing Countries; Eight Further Drafts Approved Without Vote
Committee Also Hears Introduction of Texts on Financing Of Development, Trade and Development, Business and Development
Panel to Review Situation Since January 1999 Decision on Popular Vote; Indonesia, Opposing, Says National Fact-Finding Mission Already Under Way
Delegates Also Consider Draft Texts on Second African Industrial Development Decade, Disaster Reduction, El Niño
Issue to be Raised at WTO Meeting; In Continuing Debate on Trade And Development, Special Problems of Land-locked Countries Reviewed
Upcoming Seattle Ministerial-Level Meeting Of World Trade Orgaization Also Weighed by Representatives