Meetings Coverage and Press Releases

In progress at UNHQ

Economic issues

ECOSOC/5659

UN DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES MUST NOT INFRINGE ON GOVERNMENTS' ROLE, COSTA RICA TELLS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

8 July 1996


Press Release
ECOSOC/5659


UN DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES MUST NOT INFRINGE ON GOVERNMENTS' ROLE, COSTA RICA TELLS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

19960708

United Nations operational activities for development must not arrogate to themselves an increasingly normative role, as that could only be the domain of national governments accountable to their own people, the representative of Costa Rica told the Economic and Social Council this morning.

ECOSOC/5658

UN DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM IN PERIOD OF CHANGE AMID SHRINKING RESOURCES, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL IS TOLD

8 July 1996


Press Release
ECOSOC/5658


UN DEVELOPMENT SYSTEM IN PERIOD OF CHANGE AMID SHRINKING RESOURCES, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL IS TOLD

19960708

As it discussed the Organization's operational activities for development, the Economic and Social Council this morning was told by the Director of the Division for Policy Coordination and Economic and Social Council Affairs that the United Nations development system was in a period of change amid shrinking resources.