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Social issues


SOC/4390
17 May 1996


Press Release
SOC/4390


COMMISSION FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT TO HOLD SPECIAL SESSION IN NEW YORK, 21-30 MAY

19960517 Background Release

The Commission for Social Development, the body with the central role in the follow-up to the 1995 World Summit for Social Development, will hold an eight-day special session at Headquarters beginning on 21 May to review its mandate, terms of reference and scope of work, and to elaborate its multi-year programme of activity to the year 2000.