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ECOSOC Resolution 1993-76

Economic and Social Council Resolution 1993/76

Preparations for the International Conference

on Population and Development





The Economic and Social Council,



Reaffirming General Assembly resolutions 45/216 of 21 December 1990 and 

47/176 of 22 December 1992 and Council resolutions 1989/91 of 26 July 1989, 

1991/93 of 26 July 1991 and 1993/4 of 12 February 1993,



Reaffirming Council resolution 1992/37 of 30 July 1992, in which the Council 

accepted the offer of the Government of Egypt to host the International 

Conference on Population and Development and decided to convene the 

Conference in Cairo from 5 to 13 September 1994,



Reaffirming also General Assembly resolutions S-18/3 of I May 1990, 

containing the Declaration on International Economic Cooperation, in 

particular the Revitalization of Economic Growth and Development of the 

Developing Countries, 45/199 of 21 December 1990 on the International 

Development Strategy for the Fourth United Nations Development Decade, 

45/206 of 21 December 1990 on the implementation of the Programme of Action 

for the Least Developed Countries for the 1990s, 45/217 of 21 December 1990 

on the World Summit for Children, 46/151 of 18 December 1991 on the United 

Nations New Agenda for the Development of Africa in the 1990s, the Rio 

Declaration on Environment and Development and Agenda 21, adopted by the 

United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, held at Rio de 

Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992,



Recognizing the particular importance of population issues in the context of 

sustained economic growth and sustainable development processes and 

conscious of the need to give priority to the issues related to population 

and development,





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Aware of the political impetus given to the population issue on the 

international agenda since the decision of the United Nations to hold a 

meeting on population,



Taking note of the appointment of the Executive Director of the United 

Nations Population Fund as SecretaryGeneral of the International Conference 

on Population and Development and of the Director of the Population Division 

of the Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis of 

the Secretariat as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Conference,



Stressing the need for the intergovernmental preparatory process for the 

International Conference on Population and Development to be able to 

accomplish its work before the Conference itself,



1. Recommends that the Preparatory Committee for the International 

Conference on Population and Development become a subsidiary body of the 

General Assembly, without prejudice to current arrangements for 

participation in the International Conference on Population and Development 

and its preparatory process, and in that context, decides that the report of 

the Preparatory Committee on its second session will be submitted, through 

the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its forty-eighth 

session, to be considered under the item entitled "International Conference 

on Population and Development", stipulated in General Assembly resolution 

47/176;



2. Requests the Secretary-General of the International Conference on 

Population and Development to prepare by February 1994, for the information 

of delegations, the first draft of the final substantive document of the 

Conference, taking into account the views expressed by participants during 

the second session of the Preparatory Committee and the forty-eighth session 

of the General Assembly;



3. Decides to extend the third session of the Preparatory Committee for the 

Conference by one week, starting on 4 April 1994, and to ensure that 

adequate facilities are available for it, all within the approved budget 

limit set by the General Assembly for the biennium 1994-1995;



4. Decides also to convene two-day pre-Conference consultations at the venue 

of the Conference;



5. Expresses its appreciation for the extra budgetary contributions which 

have been made to the trust funds established to assist developing 

countries, in particular the least developed among them, in preparing for 

and participating fully and effectively in the Conference and its 

preparatory process, and invites all Member States and organizations in a 

position to do so to support these trust funds further;



6, Reaffirms the significance of the media, and requests the 

SecretaryGeneral of the United Nations to promote the objectives and 

activities of the Conference;



7. Requests the Secretary-General of the United Nations, in collaboration 

with the Secretary-General of the Conference, to include in the report 

referred to in paragraph 20 of General Assembly resolution 47/176, an 

annotated outline of the final document of the Conference, as well as 

information on the implementation of the present resolution.