Economic issues

6 February 1998

Press Release
ECOSOC/5748

3 February 1998

Press Release
ECOSOC/5747

SECRETARY-GENERAL TO ADDRESS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ON ITS ROLE IN CONTEXT OF GLOBAL EVENTS AND UNITED NATIONS REFORM

19980203 President Announces, as Organizational Session Resumes

3 February 1998

Press Release
ECOSOC/5747/Rev.1*

SECRETARY-GENERAL TO ADDRESS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ON ITS ROLE IN CONTEXT OF GLOBAL EVENTS AND UNITED NATIONS REFORM

19980203 Organizational Session Resumes

22 January 1998

Press Release
ECOSOC/5745

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL DECIDES TO HOLD FIRST HIGH-LEVEL MEETING AIMED AT IMPROVING COOPERATION WITH INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS

19980122 Also Elects Bureau, Adopts Programme of Work For Organizational Session, Juan Somavia (Chile) Elected President

18 December 1997

Press Release
ECOSOC/5744

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL CONCLUDES 1997 SUBSTANTIVE SESSION

19971218 Decides To Consider Market Access in Context Of Globalization and Liberalization at 1998 High-Level Segment

16 December 1997

Press Release
ECOSOC/5743

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL RESUMES SUBSTANTIVE SESSION

19971216

At its resumed substantive session this afternoon, the Economic and Social Council elected members to a number of subsidiary bodies, confirmed representatives of three functional commissions and adopted a draft decision on the Intergovernmental Forum on Forests.

9 December 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2808*

ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL COMMITTEE CONCLUDES CURRENT PHASE OF ITS WORK

19971209 Approves Texts on Anti-Desertification, Biodiversity, Climate Change Conventions; Decides Not To Take Action on Business and Development

9 December 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2806

SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES SIX DRAFTS ON DEVELOPMENT MATTERS BY VOTE

19971209

5 December 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2805

ASSEMBLY WOULD DECIDE TO CONVENE TWO-DAY RESUMED SESSION OF SECOND COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT, BY DRAFT APPROVED

19971205 Committee also Recommends Convening Third LDCs Conference in 2001, Meeting of Experts on Landlocked and Transit Countries in 1999 by Other Texts

5 December 1997

Press Release
GA/EF/2806

ASSEMBLY WOULD CONVENE THREE-DAY SPECIAL SESSION IN 1999 TO REVIEW ICPD OUTCOME, HOLD ANOTHER SESSION IN 2001 ON HABITAT AGENDA

19971205 As Recommended by Second Committee Drafts; Text on UNITAR also Approved