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Economic and Social Council
Distr. GENERAL
25 March 1997
ORIGINAL: ENGLISH
Substantive session of 1997
Geneva, 30 June-25 July 1997
Item 1 of the provisional agenda
ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS
Annotated provisional agenda
The present document contains the provisional agenda for the
substantive session of 1997 in section I and the annotations to the
provisional agenda in section II.
I. PROVISIONAL AGENDA
The provisional agenda for the substantive session of 1997 of the
Council has been drawn up on the basis of the list of items approved
by the Council at its organizational session for 1997 (decision
1997/201).
Provisional agenda for the substantive session of 1997
1. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters.
High-level segment
2. Fostering an enabling environment for development: financial
flows, including capital flows; investment; trade.
Operational activities of the United Nations for international
development cooperation segment
3. Operational activities of the United Nations for international
development cooperation:
(a) Coordination of activities on a system-wide basis: funding
for operational activities for development: implementation
of General Assembly resolution 50/227;
(b) Follow-up to policy recommendations of the General Assembly;
(c) Reports of the Executive Boards of the United Nations
Development Programme/United Nations Population Fund, the
United Nations Children's Fund and the World Food Programme;
(d) Economic and technical cooperation among developing
countries.
Coordination segment
4. Coordination of the policies and activities of the specialized
agencies and other bodies of the United Nations system related to
the following themes:
(a) Mainstreaming the gender perspective into all policies and
programmes in the United Nations system;
(b) Freshwater, including clean and safe water supply and
sanitation.
General segment
5. Integrated and coordinated implementation and follow-up of the
major international United Nations conferences and summits.
6. Coordination, programme and other questions:
(a) Reports of coordination bodies;
(b) Multisectoral collaboration on tobacco or health;
(c) International cooperation in the field of informatics;
(d) Coordination of the activities of the organizations of the
United Nations system in the field of energy;
(e) Joint and Co-sponsored United Nations Programme on Human
Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome;
(f) Proposed programme budget for the biennium 1998-1999;
(g) Calendar of conferences in the economic, social and related
fields;
(h) United Nations University;
(i) Proclamation of international years.
7. Reports, conclusions and recommendations of subsidiary bodies:
(a) Economic questions;
(b) Environmental questions;
(c) Social questions;
(d) Human rights questions.
8. Special economic, humanitarian and disaster relief assistance.
9. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence
to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and
the international institutions associated with the United Nations.
10. Regional cooperation.
11. Permanent sovereignty over national resources in the occupied
Palestinian and other Arab territories.
12. Implementation of General Assembly resolution 50/227.
13. Non-governmental organizations:
(a) Report of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations;
(b) Increase in the membership of the Committee on Non-
Governmental Organizations.
14. New and innovative ideas for generating funds.
II. ANNOTATIONS
Item 1. Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters
At its organizational session for 1997, the Council approved the
provisional agenda for its substantive session (decision 1997/201).
In accordance with rule 12 of the rules of procedure of the
Economic and Social Council (E/5715/Rev.2), should any proposals be
submitted for the inclusion of supplementary items in the agenda, they
will be circulated as soon as they are received, and a supplementary
list of items will be issued as an addendum to the provisional agenda.
A. High-level segment
Item 2. Fostering an enabling environment for development: financial
flows, including capital flows; investment; trade
At the coordination segment of its substantive session of 1996,
the Economic and Social Council decided that the Council should
discuss issues of the enabling national and international environment
in the economic, social and related fields, including the mobilization
of resources (agreed conclusions 1996/1 on coordination of the United
Nations system activities for poverty eradication, para. 51).
At its resumed substantive session of 1996, the Economic and
Social Council decided that the high-level segment of the substantive
session of 1997 of the Council should be devoted to consideration of
the major theme "Fostering an enabling environment for development:
financial flows, including capital flows; investment; trade" (decision
1996/310).
The General Assembly, at its fifty-first session, welcomed the
decision of the Council to devote its high-level segment to this theme
(resolution 51/166).
This theme is also highly relevant to the one-day policy dialogue
with the heads of financial and trade institutions and should
therefore be a main focus of this dialogue in 1997.
The Council will have before it, at its high-level segment, the
report of the Secretary-General on the subject.
The Council will also have before it the World Economic and Social
Survey, 1997, prepared pursuant to General Assembly resolutions 118
(II) and 51/165 and Council resolution 1983/50. Part one of the
Survey will contain the Secretary-General's assessment of the world
economic situation as of mid-1997, including recent developments and
the short-term outlook in developed, transition and developing
economies and the situation regarding international trade and
financial flows. Part two will be a study of fiscal adjustment in
various areas of the world. Part three will address a number of
salient social and economic trends and developments. The Survey will
also contain a statistical annex of data on the current world
economic, trade, financial and energy situations.
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
World Economic and Social Survey, 1997
B. Operational activities of the United Nations for
international development cooperation segment
Item 3. Operational activities of the United Nations for
international development cooperation:
(a) Coordination of activities on a system-wide basis: funding
for operational activities for development: implementation
of General Assembly resolution 50/227
At the Council's substantive session of 1997, the high-level
meeting of the operational activities segment will be devoted to the
consideration of the funding for operational activities for
development (see Council decision 1996/310). This subject arises from
section I of annex I to General Assembly resolution 50/227 and takes
into account the provisions of Assembly resolution 50/120, paragraph
10, and Council resolution 1996/42, paragraph 11. The Council will
have before it a report of the Secretary-General on this subject.
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
(b) Follow-up to policy recommendations of the General Assembly
In accordance with General Assembly resolution 50/120, paragraph
53, the Council will examine the operational activities of the United
Nations system with a view to ensuring the full implementation of
Assembly resolution 50/120. The Secretary-General will provide a
progress report, including appropriate recommendations.
In its resolution 1996/42, the Council decided to focus, in the
working- level meetings of the operational activities segment, on
issues in capacity- building and field- and regional-level
coordination arising from General Assembly resolution 50/120. The
Council will have before it reports of the Secretary-General dealing
with both subjects, including problems encountered and appropriate
recommendations.
In addition to these two focus areas, the Council will consider
the implementation of General Assembly resolution 50/120 on such
subjects as the country strategy note, the programme approach,
national execution, simplification and harmonization of rules and
procedures, common premises and administrative services, and
harmonization of budgets, as well as monitoring and evaluation and
other issues pertaining to the greater integration of the United
Nations system, particularly at the country level. The Council will
also review the progress of the United Nations development system,
including relevant inter-agency bodies, based on the report of the
Secretary-General.
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
Addendum to the above containing comprehensive statistical data on
operational activities for development for 1995
Addendum to the above on capacity-building: conceptual and
operational issues
Addendum to the above on regional dimensions of operational
activities for development
(c) Reports of the Executive Boards of the United Nations
Development Programme/United Nations Population Fund, the
United Nations Children's Fund and the World Food Programme
The Council will have before it the reports of the Executive
Boards of the United Nations Development Programme/United Nations
Population Fund, the United Nations Children's Fund and the World Food
Programme, and the report of the Secretary-General on issues arising
from the Executive Boards of United Nations funds and programmes,
including their overall financial picture, as well as the annual
reports of the four funds and programmes.
At its forty-eighth session, the General Assembly decided, in
order to ensure an effective and efficient interaction between the
Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and the individual Executive
Boards, that each Board would submit an annual report on its
programmes and activities to the Council at its substantive session
(resolution 48/162, annex I, para. 29). At its substantive session of
1994, the Council requested the United Nations development funds and
programmes, through their Executive Boards, to include in their annual
reports to the Council, which should have a common structure: (a) a
section outlining measures taken in the implementation of the
provisions of the triennial policy review of operational activities;
and (b) a section on the activities and measures undertaken within the
designated theme for the high-level meeting of the operational
activities segment (resolution 1994/33).
In accordance with paragraph 11 of annex I to General Assembly
resolution 50/227, the Council will also consider the overall
financial picture of the funds and programmes, including the
availability of resources, the priorities and programmes agreed upon
in the funds and programmes and the adopted targets, and will provide
further guidance on priorities and make recommendations thereon to the
Assembly and the funds and programmes.
Documentation
Reports of the Executive Board of the United Nations Development
Programme/ United Nations Population Fund on its first regular
session, its second regular session and its annual session
Annual report of the Executive Board of the United Nations
Development Programme/United Nations Population Fund
Reports of the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's
Fund on its first regular session, its second regular session and
its annual session
Annual report of the Executive Board of the United Nations
Children's Fund
Report of the Executive Board of the World Food Programme on its
1997 sessions
Annual report of the Executive Board of the World Food Programme
Report of the Secretary-General on issues arising from the
Executive Boards of United Nations funds and programmes, including
their financial picture
(d) Economic and technical cooperation among developing countries
The High-level Committee on the Review of Technical Cooperation
among Developing Countries is entrusted with the overall
intergovernmental review of technical cooperation among developing
countries within the United Nations system. It reports to the General
Assembly through the Governing Council of the United Nations
Development Programme and the Economic and Social Council in
accordance with the Buenos Aires Plan of Action for Promoting and
Implementing Technical Cooperation among Developing Countries (General
Assembly resolution 33/134). The Council will have before it the
report of the Committee on its tenth session (Headquarters, 5-9 May 1997).
Documentation
Report of the High-level Committee on the Review of Technical
Cooperation among Developing Countries on its tenth session
C. Coordination segment
Item 4. Coordination of the policies and activities of the
specialized agencies and other bodies of the United Nations
system related to the following themes:
(a) Mainstreaming the gender perspective into all policies and
programmes in the United Nations system
(b) Freshwater, including clean and safe water supply and
sanitation
In the Beijing Platform for Action, the Fourth World Conference on
Women recommended that the Council should consider dedicating at
least one coordination segment before the year 2000 to coordination of
the advancement of women, based on the revised system-wide medium-term
plan for the advancement of women (para. 314). This request was
reiterated by the General Assembly at its fiftieth session (resolution
50/203).
In accordance with Council decision 1996/310, the coordination
segment will be devoted to the consideration of the following
cross-sectoral theme: "Mainstreaming the gender perspective into all
policies and programmes in the United Nations system".
At its fifty-first session, the General Assembly welcomed the
decision of the Council to devote its 1997 coordination segment to the
topic (resolution 51/69). The Assembly requested the
Secretary-General to present action-oriented recommendations to the
Council at its coordination segment on the means to enhance
system-wide coordination on gender issues and to mainstream a gender
perspective throughout the United Nations system.
At the coordination segment of the Council of 1995, devoted to
coordinated follow-up by the United Nations system and implementation
of the results of the major international conferences organized by the
United Nations in the economic, social and related fields, the Council
decided that it would ensure the harmonization and coordination of the
agendas and work programmes of the functional commissions by promoting
a clearer division of labour among them and providing clear policy
guidance to them (thirteenth paragraph of agreed conclusions 1995/1).
At its substantive session of 1996, the Council decided that it would
continue to ensure, on a regular basis, the harmonization and
coordination of the multi-year work programmes of relevant functional
commissions (resolution 1996/36).
For its consideration of this theme, the Council will have before
it the report of the Secretary-General on the subject. The report
will also address the harmonization and coordination of multi-year
work programmes of relevant functional commissions in relation to the
advancement of women.
In accordance with Council decision 1996/310, the coordination
segment will also be devoted to the consideration of the sectoral
theme "Freshwater, including clean and safe water supply and
sanitation".
For its consideration of this theme, the Council will have before
it the report of the Secretary-General on the subject.
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on mainstreaming the gender
perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations
system
Report of the Secretary-General on freshwater, including clean and
safe water supply and sanitation
D. General segment
Item 5. Integrated and coordinated implementation and follow-up of
the major international United Nations conferences and summits
In accordance with General Assembly resolution 45/264, the Council
will have before it the report of the Secretary-General on the
implementation of the agreed conclusions of the 1996 coordination
segment of the Council on coordination of the United Nations system
activities for poverty eradication.
At its substantive session of 1996, the Council invited the
Administrative Committee on Coordination to present the reports on the
work of its task forces on an enabling environment for economic and
social development, basic social services for all, and employment and
sustainable livelihoods, as well as the inter-agency committees on
sustainable development and on women and gender equality, to the
Council at its substantive session of 1997 and to identify policy and
coordination issues to be addressed by the Council and the General
Assembly (resolution 1996/36).
In resolution 51/171, the General Assembly invited the
Secretary-General to ensure that the Administrative Committee on
Coordination decided on the inter-agency mechanism for the
implementation of the World Food Summit Plan of Action and the
incorporation of the mechanism into existing arrangements, and to
report to the Council at its substantive session of 1997 in the
context of Council resolution 1996/36.
In the same resolution, the General Assembly reiterated its
invitation to the Director-General of the Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations to submit to the Assembly at its
fifty-second session, through the Council, a report on the outcome of
the World Food Summit, including actions to be taken to follow up the
outcome of the Summit at all appropriate levels (see also Assembly
resolution 50/109).
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the
agreed conclusions of the 1996 coordination segment of the Council
on the coordination of the United Nations system activities for
poverty eradication
Report of the Administrative Committee on Coordination
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the
Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the
United Nations on the outcome of the World Food Summit
Item 6. Coordination, programme and other questions:
(a) Reports of coordination bodies
The report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on its
thirty-seventh session (Headquarters, June-July 1997) will include the
Committee's views on its consideration of the report of the
Administrative Committee on Coordination.
The Administrative Committee on Coordination will submit an annual
overview report to the Council (Council resolution 13 (III)), which
will provide the Council with a summary of the work carried out by the
Administrative Committee on Coordination machinery in 1996.
Documentation
Report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on its
thirty-seventh session
Annual overview report of the Administrative Committee on
Coordination for 1996
(b) Multisectoral collaboration on tobacco or health
At its substantive session of 1995, the Council requested the
United Nations system focal point on tobacco or health to intensify
the dialogue with organizations of the United Nations system and
Member States in order to strengthen tobacco control policies; invited
Member States, bilateral and non-governmental organizations and
organizations of the United Nations system to provide the necessary
support to enable the United Nations system focal point to carry out
his mandate in an effective manner; and requested the Secretary-
General to report to the Council at its substantive session of 1997 on
progress made by the system focal point in the implementation of
multisectoral collaboration on tobacco or health (resolution 1995/62).
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
(c) International cooperation in the field of informatics
At its substantive session of 1996, the Council stressed the
continuing need for representatives of States to be closely consulted
and actively associated with the respective executive and governing
bodies of United Nations institutions dealing with informatics within
the United Nations system, so that the specific needs of States as
internal end-users could be given due priority; decided that the
action programme to harmonize and improve United Nations informatics
systems for optimal utilization and accessibility by all States should
continue to be implemented from within existing resources and in full
consultation with the representatives of States; requested the
President of the Council to convene the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working
Group on Informatics for one more year, from within existing
resources; and requested the Secretary-General to report on the
follow-up action taken on Council resolution 1996/35, including the
findings of the Working Group, to the Council at its substantive
session of 1997 (resolution 1996/35).
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
(d) Coordination of the activities of the organizations of the
United Nations system in the field of energy
At its substantive session of 1996, the Council requested the
Secretary- General to prepare a report, taking into account, as
appropriate, the views of the Committee on New and Renewable Sources
of Energy and on Energy for Development, on the possibilities of
strengthening the coordination of the organizations and bodies of the
United Nations system in the field of energy within the framework of
the Administrative Committee on Coordination, and to submit that
report, through the Council, to the General Assembly for consideration
at its fifty-second session. It also requested the Secretary-
General, in consultation with the regional commissions and other
entities within the United Nations system, to address in the same
report the need to enhance the capability of the system in the field
of energy for sustainable development, and to explore all possible
options for a high-level discussion in that context, taking into
account the results of the fifth session of the Commission on
Sustainable Development and of the special session of the Assembly
scheduled for June 1997, as well as the guidance provided by the
relevant environmental conventions and their respective conferences of
the parties, in particular the United Nations Framework Convention on
Climate Change (resolution 1996/44).
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
(e) Joint and Co-sponsored United Nations Programme on Human
Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
At its substantive session of 1996, the Council invited the
Secretary- General to play an active advocacy role in regard to the
serious threat posed by the spread of human immunodeficiency
virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS), urged the United
Nations Secretariat to be fully and effectively involved in the fight
against HIV/AIDS and recommended that HIV/AIDS; and its social,
economic and related impacts on the overall development process be
considered a possible future theme for the high-level segment of the
Council. The Council also requested the Secretary-General to transmit
to the Council, at its substantive session of 1997, a concise initial
report of the Executive Director of the Programme, prepared in
collaboration with all relevant specialized agencies, the United
Nations Secretariat and other organizations and bodies of the United
Nations system, and to submit thereafter to the Council, on a biennial
basis, a comprehensive report on the progress made in the fight
against HIV/AIDS and its impact on the countries affected, including
the implementation of the current resolution (resolution 1996/47).
Documentation
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the
Executive Director of the Joint and Co-sponsored United Nations
Programme on Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired
Immunodeficiency Syndrome
(f) Proposed programme budget for the biennium 1998-1999
In accordance with rule 31 of the rules of procedure of the
Council, the Secretary-General will circulate the sections of the
proposed programme budget for the biennium 1998-1999 covering
activities in the economic, social and human rights fields. The
Council will consider the relevant sections of the proposed programme
budget in the light of the recommendations of the Committee for
Programme and Coordination on the matter, with a view to submitting
its own recommendations thereon to the General Assembly (Council
resolution 1988/77).
Documentation
Relevant sections of the proposed programme budget for the
biennium 1998-1999
Report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on its
thirty-seventh session
(g) Calendar of conferences in the economic, social and related
fields
The Council will be required to approve its calendar of
conferences and meetings in the economic, social and related fields
for 1998 and 1999 (Council decision 52 (LVII)).
At its fifty-first session, the General Assembly requested the
Secretary- General to report, through the Committee on Conferences, to
each subsidiary organ of the Assembly and the Council on the cost of
the conference services it utilized in the year concluded in order to
enable those organs to plan more effectively (Assembly resolution
51/211 C).
Documentation
Draft calendar of conferences and meetings in the economic, social
and related fields for 1998 and 1999
Report of the Secretary-General on the utilization of conference
services by the Economic and Social Council
(h) United Nations University
The Council will have before it the report of the Council of the
United Nations University on its work during 1996 (General Assembly
resolution 3081 (XXVIII)).
Documentation
Report of the Council of the United Nations University
(i) Proclamation of international years
At its organizational session for 1997, the Council decided to
include this sub-item in its agenda for the substantive session of
1997 (decision 1997/201). The Council will have before it the
following three proposals: proclamation of the year 2000 as the
international year of mountains, proclamation of the year 2001 as the
international year of volunteers, and proclamation of the year 2000 as
the international year of thanksgiving. Guidelines for the
proclamation of international years, which were adopted by the General
Assembly in its decision 35/424, are contained in the annex to Council
resolution 1980/67.
Documentation
Letter dated 30 January 1997 from the Permanent Representative of
the Kyrgyz Republic to the United Nations addressed to the
Secretary-General concerning the proclamation of the year 2000 as
the international year of mountains (E/1997/3)
Letter dated 5 February 1997 from the Permanent Representative of
Japan to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General
concerning the proclamation of the year 2001 as the international
year of volunteers (E/1997/11)
Letter dated 6 February 1997 from the Charge' d'affaires a.i. of
the Permanent Mission of Argentina to the United Nations addressed
to the Secretary-General concerning the proclamation of the year
2000 as the international year of thanksgiving (E/1997/12)
Item 7. Reports, conclusions and recommendations of subsidiary bodies
At its fiftieth session, the General Assembly decided that the
subsidiary bodies of the Council should be requested to include in
their reports an executive summary, and that the reports should be
concise, identifying clearly their conclusions and recommendations and
the issues that might require attention and/or action by the Council
(resolution 50/227, annex I, para. 68). The Council will have before
it a compendium of the conclusions and recommendations of subsidiary
bodies prepared by the Secretariat.
Documentation
Document prepared by the Secretariat containing a consolidation of
conclusions and recommendations of subsidiary bodies
(a) Economic questions *
* (At its organizational session for 1997, the Council decided
that the reports listed under this sub-item would also be made
available under sub-item 7 (b) and that it would not duplicate
discussion on the issues listed under sub-items 7 (a) and (b) (Council
decision 1997/201)).
For the consideration of this sub-item, the Council will have
before it the relevant sections of the document prepared by the
Secretariat containing a consolidation of conclusions and
recommendations of subsidiary bodies.
Sustainable development
The Council will have before it the report of the Commission on
Sustainable Development on its fifth session (New York, 7-25 April
1997). The provisional agenda for the fifth session of the Commission
was approved by the Council in decision 1996/231.
The Council will also have before it the report of the Committee
for Development Planning on the work of its thirty-first session.
At its thirty-ninth session, the General Assembly adopted
guidelines for consumer protection (resolution 39/248). At its
substantive session of 1995, the Council requested the
Secretary-General to continue to provide assistance to Governments, at
their request, in implementing those guidelines, to elaborate
guidelines in the area of sustainable consumption patterns, and to
examine the possible extension of these guidelines into other areas.
It also requested the Secretary-General to report to the Council at
its substantive session of 1997 on the implementation of the current
resolution (resolution 1995/53).
At its fiftieth session, the General Assembly requested the United
Nations Conference on Trade and Development, and invited the World
Trade Organization, in accordance with their respective mandates and
competence and in close cooperation with other competent United
Nations bodies and the regional commissions, to address trade and
environment matters comprehensively and to report, through the
Commission on Sustainable Development, to the Council and to the
Assembly at its special session in 1997 on the concrete progress
achieved on the issue of trade and environment (resolution 50/95).
Documentation
Report of the Commission on Sustainable Development on its fifth
session (E/1997/29)
Report of the Committee for Development Planning on its
thirty-first session (E/1997/35)
Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Council
resolution 1995/53 on consumer protection
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the
Secretary- General of the United Nations Conference on Trade and
Development on trade and environmental matters
Science and technology for development
The Council will have before it the report of the Commission on
Science and Technology for Development on the work of its third
session (Geneva, 12-16 May 1997). The provisional agenda for the
third session of the Commission was approved by the Council in
decision 1995/237.
Documentation
Report of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development
on its third session (E/1997/31)
Population and development
The Council will have before it the report of the Commission on
Population and Development on the work of its thirtieth session (New
York, 24-28 February 1997). The provisional agenda for the thirtieth
session of the Commission was approved by the Council in decision
1996/234.
Documentation
Report of the Commission on Population and Development on its
thirtieth session (E/1997/25)
Human settlements
The Council will have before it the report of the Commission on
Human Settlements on its sixteenth session (Nairobi, 28 April-7 May
1997). In accordance with General Assembly resolution 43/181, the
report will include the report of the Commission on the progress made
in the implementation of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the Year
2000 (see A/43/8/Add.1).
At its fifty-first session, the General Assembly requested the
Commission on Human Settlements at its session in 1997 to review its
programme of work in order to ensure an effective follow-up and
implementation of the outcome of the United Nations Conference on
Human Settlements (Habitat II) and to make recommendations thereon to
the Council within the framework of the review of the activities of
its subsidiary bodies; the Assembly also recommended that the Council,
in the context of the overall review process of its subsidiary bodies,
and within the context of the follow-up to Assembly resolution 50/227,
should review the periodicity of the meetings of the Commission,
taking into account the need for full and effective implementation of
the Habitat Agenda (resolution 51/177). The Assembly also requested
the Secretary-General to report to it, through the Council, on the
implementation of resolution 51/177.
Documentation
Report of the Commission on Human Settlements on its sixteenth
session, including the report of the Commission on progress made
in the implementation of the Global Strategy for Shelter to the
Year 2000
Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of General
Assembly resolution 51/177 on the implementation of the outcome of
the United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II)
Environment
The Council will review the report of the Governing Council of the
United Nations Environment Programme on its nineteenth session
(Nairobi, 27 January- 7 February 1997). In doing so, the Council will
consider only specific recommendations contained therein that require
action by the Council and proposals on matters relating to the
coordination aspect of the work of the Governing Council. The
Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme reports
to the General Assembly through the Council (Assembly resolution
2997 (XXVII), sect. I, para. 3).
Documentation
Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment
Programme on its nineteenth session
Transport of dangerous goods
The Council will consider the report of the Secretary-General on
the work of the Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous
Goods on its nineteenth session (Geneva, 2-11 December 1996). The
Committee was established in pursuance of Council resolution
645 G (XXIII). The Secretary-General reports biennially to the
Council on the work of the Committee (Council resolution
1488 (XLVIII)).
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Committee of
Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods on its nineteenth
session (E/1997/16)
Cartography
The Council will consider the reports of the Secretary-General on
the Fourteenth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for
Asia and the Pacific (Bangkok, 3-7 February 1997) (decision 1994/228)
and on the Sixth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for
the Americas (New York, 2-6 June 1997) (decision 1993/225).
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on the Fourteenth United Nations
Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific
Report of the Secretary-General on the Sixth United Nations
Regional Cartographic Conference for the Americas
Statistics
The Council will consider the report of the Statistical Commission
on its twenty-ninth session (New York, 11-14 February 1997) and take
action on the recommendations contained therein. The provisional
agenda and documentation for the twenty-ninth session of the
Commission were approved by the Council in its decision 1995/239.
Documentation
Report of the Statistical Commission on its twenty-ninth session
(E/1997/24)
Public administration and development
The Council reviews the question of public administration and
finance every two years, following the Meeting of Experts on the
United Nations Programme in Public Administration and Finance (Council
resolution 1199 (XLII)). The Council will have before it the report
of the Secretary-General on the Thirteenth Meeting of Experts on the
United Nations Programme in Public Administration and Finance (New
York, 21 April-2 May 1997).
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on the Thirteenth Meeting of
Experts on the United Nations Programme in Public Administration
and Finance
(b) Environmental questions *
(At its organizational session for 1997, the Council decided to
make the reports listed under sub-item 7 (a) available to the Council
for the consideration of this sub-item and that it would not duplicate
discussion on the issues listed under sub-items (a) and (b) (Council
decision 1997/201)).
Documentation
Relevant sections of the document prepared by the Secretariat
containing a consolidation of conclusions and recommendations of
subsidiary bodies
Reports listed under sub-item 7 (a)
(c) Social questions
For the consideration of this sub-item, the Council will have
before it the relevant sections of the document prepared by the
Secretariat containing a consolidation of conclusions and
recommendations of subsidiary bodies.
Advancement of women
The Council will have before it the report of the Commission on
the Status of Women on its forty-first session (New York, 10-21 March
1997). The provisional agenda for the forty-first session of the
Commission was approved by the Council in decision 1996/241.
It will also have before it the report of the Board of Trustees of
the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement
of Women on its seventeenth session (Santo Domingo, 17-
21 February 1997). The Institute functions under the authority of a
Board of Trustees, which reports annually to the Council.
At its fiftieth session, the General Assembly decided that the
Assembly, the Council and the Commission on the Status of Women should
constitute a three-tiered intergovernmental mechanism that would play
the primary role in the overall policy-making and follow-up to the
Fourth World Conference on Women and in coordinating the
implementation and monitoring of the Beijing Declaration and Platform
for Action. The Assembly also requested the Secretary-General to
report annually to the Commission and to the Assembly, through the
Council, on the measures taken and the progress achieved in the
implementation of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action
(resolution 50/203). At its fifty-first session, the Assembly invited
the Council, in order to facilitate the regional implementation,
monitoring and evaluation process, to consider reviewing the
institutional capacity of the United Nations regional commissions, and
to consider how best to integrate the inputs by the regional
commissions into the overall monitoring and follow-up to the Platform
for Action. It requested the Secretary-General to report on ways to
enhance the capacity of the Organization and of the United Nations
system to support the ongoing follow-up to the Conference in the most
integrated and effective way, including human and financial
requirements, and measures taken and the progress achieved in the
implementation of the Beijing Declaration and the Platform for Action
(resolution 51/69).
Documentation
Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its forty-first
session (E/1997/27)
Report of the Board of Trustees of the International Research and
Training Institute for the Advancement of Women on its seventeenth
session
Report of the Secretary-General on the follow-up to the Fourth
World Conference on Women and full implementation of the Beijing
Declaration and Platform for Action
Social development
The Council will have before it the report of the Commission for
Social Development on its thirty-fifth session (New York, 25
February-6 March 1997). The provisional agenda for the thirty-fifth
session of the Commission was approved by the Council in decision
1996/243.
At its forty-fourth session, the General Assembly requested the
Secretary-General to continue monitoring the world social situation in
depth on a regular basis (resolution 44/56). The Council will have
before it the 1997 Report on the World Social Situation, submitted to
the Assembly, through the Commission for Social Development and the
Council.
At its fiftieth session, the General Assembly requested the
Secretary-General, in cooperation with the Director-General of the
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, to
submit to the Assembly, at its fifty-second session, in 1997, through
the Council, a progress report on the implementation process of the
education for all objectives, including the recommendations of the
International Consultative Forum on Education for All, taking into
account the possible measures, if any, to improve the reporting
procedure (resolution 50/143).
Documentation
Report of the Commission for Social Development on its
thirty-fifth session (E/1997/26)
1997 Report on the World Social Situation (E/1997/15)
Report of the Secretary-General on the process of implementation
of the objectives of education for all
Crime prevention and criminal justice
The Council will have before it the report of the Commission on
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on its sixth session (Vienna,
28 April-9 May 1997). The provisional agenda for the sixth session of
the Commission was approved by the Council in decision 1996/245. At
its fifty-first session, the General Assembly requested the Commission
to consider, as a matter of priority, the question of the elaboration
of an international convention against organized transnational crime,
with a view to finalizing its work on that question as soon as
possible, and to report through the Council to the Assembly at its
fifty-second session on the results of its work on that question
(resolution 51/120).
Documentation
Report of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice
on its sixth session (E/1997/30)
Narcotic drugs
The Council will have before it the report of the Commission on
Narcotic Drugs on its fortieth session (Vienna, 18-27 March 1997).
The provisional agenda for the fortieth session of the Commission was
approved by the Council in decision 1996/246. At its fifty-first
session, the General Assembly decided to convene a special session in
order to consider the fight against the illicit production, sale,
demand, traffic and distribution of narcotic drugs and psychotropic
substances and related activities, and to propose new strategies,
methods, practical activities and specific measures to strengthen
international cooperation in addressing the problem of illicit drugs;
it also decided that the Commission should act as the preparatory body
for the special session of the Assembly and invited the Commission to
report to the Assembly at its fifty- second session, through the
Council, on the progress in the preparations for the special session
(resolution 51/64).
In accordance with article 15, paragraph 1, of the Single
Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961, article 18, paragraph 1, of the
1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, and article 23,
paragraph 1, of the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit
Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, the Board will
report to the Council, through the Commission on Narcotic Drugs, on
its work for 1996.
Documentation
Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its fortieth session
(E/1997/28)
Summary of the report of the International Narcotics Control Board
for 1996
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees reports annually
to the General Assembly through the Council, in conformity with
paragraph 11 of the Statute of the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees (Assembly resolution 428 (V), annex).
At its fifty-first session, in 1971, the Council decided that the
report of the High Commissioner should be transmitted to the General
Assembly without debate, unless the Council decided otherwise, at the
specific request of one or more of its members or of the High
Commissioner, at the time of the adoption of its agenda (resolution
1623 (LI), sect. II).
Documentation
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(d) Human rights questions
For the consideration of this sub-item, the Council will have
before it the relevant sections of the document prepared by the
Secretariat containing a consolidation of conclusions and
recommendations of subsidiary bodies.
Implementation of the Programme of Action for the Third Decade to
Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination
The Council will consider the report of the Secretary-General on
the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Third Decade to
Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003), as requested by
the General Assembly in its resolution 48/91, paragraph 16. In that
resolution, the Assembly proclaimed the Third Decade to Combat Racism
and Racial Discrimination, beginning in 1993, and adopted the
Programme of Action for the Decade contained in the annex to the
resolution. The Assembly entrusted the Council and the Commission on
Human Rights, in cooperation with the Secretary-General, with the
responsibility for coordinating the programmes and evaluating the
activities undertaken in connection with the Decade and requested the
Secretary-General to submit each year to the Council a detailed report
on all activities of United Nations bodies and the specialized
agencies, analysing the information received on such activities to
combat racism and racial discrimination.
The attention of the Council is drawn to General Assembly
resolution 51/81.
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the
Programme of Action for the Third Decade to Combat Racism and
Racial Discrimination
Human rights
The Council will have before it the reports of the Committee on
Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on its fourteenth and fifteenth
sessions (Geneva, 30 April-17 May 1996 and 18 November-6 December
1996). The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights was
entrusted by the Council, as from 1987, with overseeing the
implementation of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and
Cultural Rights (Council resolution 1985/17). It will be recalled
that the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural
Rights (General Assembly resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex) entered into
force on 3 January 1976. Under article 16 of the Covenant, States
parties to the Covenant undertake to submit to the Secretary-General
reports on the measures that they have adopted and on the progress
made in achieving the observance of the rights recognized in the
Covenant. The Secretary-General is required to transmit copies of the
reports to the Council for its consideration.
The Council will also have before it the report of the Commission
on Human Rights on its fifty-third session (Geneva, 10 March-18 April
1997). The report of the Commission is expected to include its
response to the following resolutions:
(a) General Assembly resolution 51/81, in which the Assembly
invited the Commission to consider at its fifty-third session as a
matter of priority the question of a possible world conference to
combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and other related
contemporary forms of intolerance, and to make appropriate
recommendations through the Council to the Assembly at its
fifty-second session;
(b) General Assembly resolution 51/99, in which the Assembly
called upon the Commission to continue to make proposals to the
Assembly through the Council on the future course of action on the
question of the right to development, in particular on practical
measures for the implementation and enhancement of the Declaration on
the Right to Development;
(c) General Assembly resolution 51/106, in which the Assembly
decided to continue its consideration of the situation of human rights
in Iraq during its fifty-second session in the light of additional
elements provided by the Commission and the Council;
(d) General Assembly resolution 51/107, in which the Assembly
decided to continue the examination of the situation of human rights
in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including the situation of minority
groups such as the Baha'is, during its fifty-second session, inter
alia, in the light of additional elements provided by the Commission
and the Council;
(e) General Assembly resolution 51/108, in which the Assembly
decided to keep the situation of human rights in Afghanistan under
consideration at its fifty-second session, in the light of additional
elements provided by the Commission and the Council.
The Council will also have before it the report of the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. At its forty-eighth
session, the General Assembly decided to create the post of United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights; it also decided, inter
alia, that the High Commissioner would be the United Nations official
with principal responsibility for United Nations human rights
activities under the direction and authority of the Secretary-General.
The Assembly requested the High Commissioner to report annually on
his/her activities, in accordance with his/her mandate, to the
Commission on Human Rights and, through the Council, to the Assembly
(resolution 48/141).
The Council will also have before it the general comments of the
Human Rights Committee. The International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights (General Assembly resolution 2200 A (XXI), annex)
entered into force on 23 March 1976. In accordance with article 45 of
the Covenant, the Human Rights Committee reports annually on its
activities to the Assembly through the Council. In 1997, the Human
Rights Committee is to hold its fifty-ninth session at Headquarters
from 24 March to 11 April, its sixtieth session at Geneva from 14 July
to 1 August and its sixty-first session at Geneva from 20 October to
7 November.
It will be recalled that, at its organizational session for 1983,
the Council invited the Human Rights Committee to consider the
possibility of rescheduling its meetings so that its report could be
submitted to the General Assembly through the Council (decision
1983/101). At its organizational session for 1985, the Council agreed
to the interim arrangement proposed by the Human Rights Committee,
namely, that the Committee would transmit to the Council, on a regular
basis, the text of the general comments adopted by the Committee in
accordance with article 40, paragraph 4, of the Covenant; and, without
prejudice to further consideration of the present arrangements at a
future session, the Council decided to authorize the Secretary-General
to transmit the annual report of the Human Rights Committee directly
to the Assembly (decision 1985/105).
Documentation
Report of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights on
its fourteenth and fifteenth sessions (E/1997/22)
Report of the Commission on Human Rights on its fifty-third
session (E/1997/23)
Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
Note by the Secretariat transmitting the general comments of the
Human Rights Committee
Documents for information
Reports submitted by States parties to the International Covenant
on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and by the specialized
agencies
Reports submitted by the specialized agencies in accordance with
Council resolution 1988 (LX)
Summary records of the fourteenth and fifteenth sessions of the
Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
Item 8. Special economic, humanitarian and disaster relief assistance
At its forty-sixth session, the General Assembly requested the
emergency relief coordinator to prepare an annual report for the
Secretary-General on the coordination of humanitarian emergency
assistance of the United Nations, including information on the central
emergency revolving fund, to be submitted to the Assembly through the
Council (resolution 46/182, annex, para. 35 (i)). At its substantive
session of 1996, the Council requested the Secretary-General, in close
cooperation with relevant organizations of the United Nations system,
to submit to the Council, at its substantive session of 1997, a
comprehensive analytical report, including options, proposals and
recommendations for a review and strengthening of all aspects of the
capacity of the United Nations system for humanitarian assistance
(resolution 1996/33). At its fifty-first session, the Assembly
requested the Secretary-General to include in his report to the
Council at its substantive session of 1997 proposals for the clearer
identification of priority needs and the formulation of a coherent
humanitarian strategy within consolidated appeals, and requested the
Secretary-General to invite States to submit their views on that
subject in due time; it also invited the Secretary-General, in
consultation with the Inter-Agency Standing Committee, to make
recommendations to the Council, at its substantive session in 1997, on
possible ways to strengthen the effectiveness of the Central Emergency
Revolving Fund, and requested the Secretary-General to invite States
to submit their views on that subject in due time (resolution 51/194).
The Council will also have before it the report of the
Secretary-General on assistance for the reconstruction and development
of Lebanon. In Council resolution 1996/32 and General Assembly
resolution 51/30 C, organizations and programmes of the United Nations
system were called upon to support governmental requirements for
national capacity-building and institutional renewal in the areas of
social reconstruction and development, environmental management,
public services provision, and support for private-sector development,
and for implementing priority field-based programmes in the
rehabilitation and reintegration of displaced persons and in the
reconstruction and development of Baalbeck-Hermel and the south
Lebanon region.
In accordance with Council resolution 1983/46, the
Secretary-General apprises the Council annually on the status of the
assistance to the drought-stricken areas of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya,
Somalia, the Sudan and Uganda.
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on the coordination of
humanitarian emergency assistance of the United Nations
Report of the Secretary-General on assistance for the
reconstruction and development of Lebanon
Item 9. Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of
Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized
agencies and the international institutions associated with the
United Nations
Assistance to the Palestinian people. At its sixty-third session,
in 1977, the Council requested the Secretary-General to submit to it
annual reports on the question of assistance to the Palestinian people
(resolution 2100 (LXIII)).
At its fifty-first session, the General Assembly requested the
Secretary-General to submit a report to the Assembly at its fifty-
second session, through the Council, on the implementation of Assembly
resolution 51/150 on the subject.
Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence
to Colonial Countries and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the
international institutions associated with the United Nations. At its
substantive session of 1996, the Council requested its President to
continue to maintain close contact with the Chairman of the Special
Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the
Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and
Peoples, concerning the matters set forth in Council resolution
1996/37, and to report thereon to the Council; it requested the
Secretary-General to follow the implementation of the resolution and
to report thereon to the Council at its substantive session of 1997
(resolution 1996/37). At its fifty-first session, the General
Assembly requested the Council to continue to consider, in
consultation with the Special Committee, appropriate measures for
coordination of the policies and activities of the specialized
agencies and other organizations of the United Nations system in
implementing the relevant resolutions of the Assembly (resolution
51/141).
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on assistance to the Palestinian people
Report of the President of the Council on consultations held with
the Chairman of the Special Committee on the Situation with regard
to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of
Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples
Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the
Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries
and Peoples by the specialized agencies and the international
institutions associated with the United Nations
Item 10. Regional cooperation
The Council will consider the report of the Secretary-General on
regional cooperation and take the necessary action on the decisions
and recommendations of the regional commissions contained therein.
The Council will also have before it the summaries of the surveys
of regional economic and social conditions prepared by the regional
commissions, highlighting the main problems and prospects of those
regions. At its first regular session of 1979, the Council decided to
discontinue the submission to it of the reports of the regional
commissions (decision 1979/1). The reports are transmitted directly
to all Member States. The Secretary-General, in his annual report on
regional cooperation, in addition to reporting on the meetings of the
executive secretaries, highlights developments within each region and
draws the Council's attention to specific issues requiring its
consideration. The report of the Secretary-General will bring to the
Council's attention any decisions or recommendations of the
Commissions that statutorily require approval by the Council. A
section of the report will deal with the question of review and reform
of the regional commissions (Council decision 1997/203).
In its resolution 50/227, the General Assembly adopted further
measures for the restructuring and revitalization of the United
Nations in the economic, social and related fields. In accordance
with that resolution, the Council should provide for the review of the
regional commissions, with a view to strengthening and enhancing their
effectiveness as action- and policy-oriented bodies in the economic
and development fields with better response to the conditions and
environments unique to the specific regions; improving their
coordination with the entire United Nations system, including the
specialized agencies, the Bretton Woods institutions and the regional
development banks; and strengthening their active participation
relating to the implementation at the regional level of the results of
major United Nations conferences. At its substantive session of 1996,
the Council requested the regional commissions to continue undertaking
their own reviews, as called for in Assembly resolution 50/227, and to
report to the Council at its substantive session of 1997 (resolution
1996/41).
Pursuant to Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean resolution 553 (XXVI), the Council will also have before it
a note by the Secretary-General on reform of the United Nations and
its impact on the Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean.
At its substantive session of 1995, the Council requested the
Executive Secretaries of the Economic Commission for Africa and the
Economic Commission for Europe to take an active part in the follow-up
to the project on a Europe-Africa permanent link through the Strait of
Gibraltar and to report to the Council at its substantive session of
1997 (resolution 1995/48).
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on regional cooperation
Summary of the economic survey of Europe, 1996
Summary of the survey of economic and social conditions in Africa, 1996
Summary of the survey of economic and social conditions in Asia
and the Pacific, 1997
Summary of the economic survey of Latin America and the Caribbean, 1996
Summary of economic and social developments in the region of the
Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, 1996
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the
executive secretaries of the regional commissions
Note by the Secretary-General on reform of the United Nations and
its impact on the Economic Commission for Latin America and the
Caribbean (E/1997/5)
Note by the Secretary-General on a Europe-Africa permanent link
through the Strait of Gibraltar
Item 11. Permanent sovereignty over national resources in the occupied
Palestinian and other Arab territories
At its substantive session of 1996, the Council adopted resolution
1996/40 entitled "Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli
settlements on the Palestinian people in the Palestinian territory,
including Jerusalem, occupied since 1967, and on the Arab population
of the occupied Syrian Golan". The Council reaffirmed the inalienable
right of the Palestinian people and the population of the Syrian Golan
to their natural and all other economic resources, and regarded any
infringement thereof as being illegal; and requested the Secretary-
General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-second session,
through the Council, a report on the progress made in the
implementation of the resolution. The attention of the Council is
drawn to Assembly resolution 51/190 on the subject.
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Council
resolution 1996/40 and Assembly resolution 51/190
Item 12. Implementation of General Assembly resolution 50/227
At its fiftieth session, the General Assembly adopted resolution
50/227 on further measures for the restructuring and revitalization of
the United Nations in the economic, social and related fields. As
requested, the Council will have before it the report of the
Secretary-General on the implementation of the resolution.
At its substantive session of 1996, the Council requested the
Secretary- General to prepare a comprehensive document compiling
information on the mandates, composition, functions and working
methods of the functional commissions and expert groups and bodies,
and decided to begin consideration during its substantive session of
1997 of the role, working methods and relationship with other bodies
of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development, the
Committee for Development Planning, the Committee on New and Renewable
Sources of Energy and on Energy for Development, and the Committee on
Natural Resources. It also requested its President to establish
arrangements for informal open-ended consultations during the
Council's substantive session of 1997 in order to better prepare for
further work of the Council on the issue (resolution 1996/41).
In its resolution 1996/41, the Council also requested the regional
commissions to continue undertaking their own reviews, as called for
in Assembly resolution 50/227, and to report to the Council at its
substantive session of 1997 (see item 10 above).
In its resolution 50/227, annex I, paragraph 43, the General
Assembly also requested the Secretary-General to prepare a study with
a comprehensive assessment of the current arrangements for the
Council's sessions.
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of General
Assembly resolution 50/227
Report of the Secretary-General on the subsidiary bodies of the
Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly in the
economic, social and related fields (E/1996/97)
Report of the Secretary-General on the review of the mandates,
composition, functions and working methods of the functional
commissions and expert groups and bodies of the Economic and
Social Council (E/1996/97/Add.1)
Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the
executive secretaries of the regional commissions
Report of the Secretary-General containing a comprehensive
assessment of the present arrangements for the Council's sessions
Item 13. Non-governmental organizations:
(a) Report of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations
The Council will consider the report of the Committee on
Non-Governmental Organizations on the work of its 1997 session (New
York, 5-16 May 1997) and take action on the recommendations contained
therein. At its substantive session of 1995, the Council decided that
the Committee should meet annually (decision 1995/304). The Committee
reports to the Council in accordance with Council resolutions 3 (II)
and 1296 (XLIV). At its substantive session of 1996, the Council
approved an update of the arrangements for consultation with
non-governmental organizations set out in its resolution 1296 (XLIV)
of 23 May 1968 (resolution 1996/31).
Documentation
Report of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations
(b) Increase in the membership of the Committee on
Non-Governmental Organizations
In its decision 1995/304, on the general review of arrangements
for consultation with non-governmental organizations, the Council
decided to increase, on the basis of equitable geographical
representation, the current membership of the Committee on
Non-Governmental Organizations and to implement that decision after
the completion of the current review.
Documentation
Note by the Secretary-General
Item 14. New and innovative ideas for generating funds
At its substantive session of 1996, the Council requested the
Secretary- General to submit a report, to be prepared in cooperation
with the United Nations Development Programme, on all aspects of new
and innovative ideas for generating funds for globally agreed
commitments and priorities, in particular those established at recent
United Nations conferences and summits, including in particular a
review of their feasibility and possible modalities, as well as the
costs and benefits of their implementation; and also requested the
Secretary-General, in the preparation of the report, to consult and
build upon work of relevant parts of the United Nations system,
including the Bretton Woods institutions, and to submit his report for
discussion to the Council at its substantive session of 1997 and to
the General Assembly at its fifty-second session. The Council also
requested the Secretary-General to organize briefings, as appropriate,
for the Council's substantive session of 1997 in order to keep Member
States informed of progress being made on the subject. The Council
invited Governments to submit their written views on the subject to
the Secretary-General and requested the Secretary-General, in a
supplement to his report, to communicate those views to the Council at
its substantive session of 1997 and to the Assembly at its
fifty-second session (resolution 1996/48).
Documentation
Report of the Secretary-General
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