General Assembly of the United Nations
Economic and Financial - Second Committee

Second Committee

List of agenda items and their periodicity

 

 

Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the
Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and
of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their
natural resources

     Annual

 

Information and communication technologies for development

     Annual (GA res. 58/316)

 

Macroeconomic policy questions:

 

(a)  International trade and development

     Annual

(b)  International financial system and development

     Annual

(c)  External debt and development: Towards a durable solution
to the debt problems of developing countries

     Annual

(d)  Commodities

     Biennial (64th ... )

 

Follow-up to and implementation of the outcome of the
International Conference on Financing for Development

     Annual

 

Sustainable development:

 

(a)  Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit
on Sustainable Development

     Annual

(b)  Follow-up to and implementation of the Mauritius Strategy for the Further Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States

     Annual

(c)  International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

     Annual

(d)  Protection of global climate for present and future generations of mankind

     Annual

(e)  Implementation of the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in Those Countries Experiencing Serious Drought
and/or Desertification, Particularly in Africa

     Annual

(f)  Convention on Biological Diversity

     Annual

(g)  Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme

     Annual

(h)  Sustainable mountain development

     Biennial (64th ... )

(i)  Promotion of new and renewable sources of energy

     Biennial (64th ... )

(j)  United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

     Quinquennial (65th ... )

 

Implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) and strengthening of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)

     Annual

 

Globalization and interdependence:

 

(a)  Role of the United Nations in promoting development in the context of globalization and interdependence

     Annual

(b)  Preventing and combating corrupt practices and transfer of assets
of illicit origin and returning such assets, in particular to the countries of origin, consistent with the United Nations Convention against Corruption

     Annual

(c)  International migration and development

     Biennial (65th ... )

(d)  Culture and development

     Biennial (65th ... )

(e)  Integration of the economies in transition into the world economy

     Biennial (65th ... )

(f)  Science and technology for development

     Biennial (64th ... )

 

Groups of countries in special situations:

 

(a)  Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries

     Annual

(b)  Specific actions related to the particular needs and problems of landlocked developing countries: outcome of the International Ministerial Conference of Landlocked and Transit Developing Countries and Donor Countries and International Financial and Development Institutions on Transit Transport Cooperation

     Annual

 

Eradication of poverty and other development issues:

 

(a)  Implementation of the second United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (2008-2017)

     Annual

(b)  Industrial development cooperation

     Biennial (65th ... )

(c)  Women in development

     Biennial (64th ... )

(d)  Human resources development

     Biennial (64th ... )

 

Operational activities for development:

 

(a)  Operational activities for development of the United Nations system

     Annual

(b)  South-South cooperation

     Biennial (64th ... )

(c)  Triennial policy review of operational activities for development of
the United Nations system

     Triennial (65th ... )

 

Towards global partnerships

     Biennial (GA res. 58/316) (64th ... )

 

[15 December 2008]

 

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