55th Session of the General Assembly

According to the programme of work, matters before the Committee were clustered under the following headings: macroeconomic policy questions; sectoral policy questions; sustainable development and international economic cooperation; environmental and sustainable development; operational activities for development; training and research; permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources; implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006); globalization and interdependence; high-level international intergovernmental consideration of financing for development; Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries; and report of the Economic and Social Council.