Economic issues

2 April 1996

Press Release
ECOSOC/5636

PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION PROGRAMME AIMED AT DEVELOPING, TRANSITION ECONOMIES, UNDER-SECRETARY-GENERAL TELLS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

19960402 Secretary-General, Expert Group Reports on Public Administration Introduced; Will Be Discussed at Assembly Session on Public Administration and Development

9 February 1996

Press Release
ECOSOC/5635

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION AGAINST ILLICIT NARCOTICS, PSYCHOTROPIC SUBSTANCES THEME OF HIGH-LEVEL SEGMENT OF ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

19960209 Council Also Adopts Provisional Agenda for Substantive Session, New Agenda Item Included on 'New Innovative Ideas for Generating Funds'

25 January 1996

Press Release
ECOSOC/5633

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL BEGINS 1996 ORGANIZATIONAL SESSION, ELECTS JEAN-MARIE KACOU GERVAIS, OF COTE D'IVOIRE, PRESIDENT

19960125 Also elects Members to New WFP Executive Board And Enlarged Commission on Population and Development

13 December 1995

Press Release
GA/EF/2717

SECOND COMMITTEE APPROVES ITS DRAFT PROGRAMME FOR 1996-1997, CONCLUDING WORK OF SESSION

19951213 The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) concluded its work for the session this morning by approving, as orally amended, its draft biennial programme of work for 1996-1997.

At the current session the Committee approved 42 draft proposals, two by recorded votes, and held 45 formal meetings.

12 December 1995

Press Release
ECOSOC/5632

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ENLARGES MEMBERSHIP OF COMMISSION ON POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT

19951212 Decision Follows Protracted Negotiations; Among Other Actions, Elects Members to Board of World Food Programme

12 December 1995

Press Release
GA/EF/2716

8 December 1995

Press Release
GA/EF/2715

COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT SEEKING TWO-DAY HIGH-LEVEL DIALOGUE ON SOCIAL, ECONOMIC IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION DURING NEXT ASSEMBLY SESSION

19951208 Other Drafts Deal with Roles of Science and Technology, Human Resources in Development, Natural Disaster Reduction, Environment

5 December 1995

Press Release
GA/EF/2714

COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT CONCERNING UNILATERAL COERCIVE ECONOMIC MEASURES AGAINST DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

19951205

10 Other Texts Approved; One Recommends Convening UNCTAD IX in Midrand, South Africa, 27 April-11 May 1996

30 November 1995

Press Release
GA/EF/2713

COMMITTEE APPROVES DRAFT REAFFIRMING ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS ARE OBSTACLE TO ECONOMIC, SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; VOTE IS 91-2-22

19951130 Other Drafts, Approved Without Vote, Deal with Water Supply, Anti-Malaria Effort, Small Island States, Migration and Development

27 November 1995

Press Release
GA/EF/2712

SECRETARY-GENERAL TO CONSULT ON CONVENING SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SUMMIT, BY ONE OF TWO DRAFTS ON AFRICA INTRODUCED IN SECOND COMMITTEE

19951127 Other Texts Concern Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction, Initiative on Opportunity and Participation