The General Assembly took action on dozens of draft resolutions and decisions emerging from its Third (Social, Humanitarian, Cultural), Second (Economic, Financial) and Sixth (Legal) Committees today, defying slowdowns caused by protracted procedural wrangling that threatened to reshape the day’s proceedings.
Concluding its seventy-ninth session today, the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) — while not taking a decision on its agenda item concerning revitalization of its work — heard that its working methods must be improved despite a lack of consensus on how best to do so.
Acting on the recommendations of its Second Committee (Economic and Financial), the General Assembly today adopted 39 resolutions — eight by recorded vote — and two decisions on topics ranging from Palestinian natural resources, entrepreneurship and small island States to international trade, adverse climate impacts and global tax cooperation.
The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) concluded its seventy-ninth session today, approving four draft resolutions and two draft decisions on a range of topics, with a vote on a text taking up international tax cooperation.
The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today approved 15 draft resolutions and various amendments, with texts ranging from international trade and communications technology to protecting global climate and women in development.
The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today approved 15 draft resolutions on an array of issues, most of them by consensus, while voting on one text addressing the need to eradicate rural poverty.
The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today approved three draft resolutions, two by recorded votes, on entrepreneurship, small island developing States and a new international economic order.
The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today approved two resolutions by recorded vote, including one requesting that the Government of Israel assume responsibility for prompt and adequate compensation to Lebanon and other countries affected by an oil slick on their shores, for costs of repairing environmental damage caused by the destruction.
As ongoing conflicts, economic volatility and gaping inequality shadow development prospects, regional commissions today highlighted in a joint meeting with the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) the urgent need to bridge digital gaps in sparking opportunity and driving innovation, with the Committee also discussing challenges hampering countries in special situations in a separate session.
While artificial intelligence (AI) and other innovations hold endless promise for driving prosperity and growth, the international community must urgently address the critical and widening digital gap between developed and developing countries, senior United Nations officials and Member States told the Second Committee (Economic and Financial) today as it took up information and communications technologies (ICTs) for sustainable development as well as globalization and interdependence.
