Assistance to the Palestinian people – SecGen report

UNITED

NATIONS

General Assembly

Economic and Social Council

Distr.

GENERAL

A/40/353/Add.l/Corr.1

E/1985/115/Add.l/Corr.1

13 September 1985

ORIGINAL: ENGLISH

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Fortieth session

Item 12 of the provisional agenda*

REPORT OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

Second regular session of 1985

Item 21 of the provisional agenda**

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

Report of the Secretary-General

Corrigendum

Page 1, paragraph 1, fifth line

Item (b) should read

   (b) to convene in 1985 a meeting of the relevant programmed, organizations, agencies, funds and organs of the United Nations system to consider the co-ordinated programme of economic and social assistance to the Palestinian people;

Page 4

Subtitle preceding paragraph 14 should read Paragraph 93

Page 5, paragraph 19

The second sentence should read:

"The Governing Council expressed its gratitude to those Governments and funds which have responded generously to its appeals and to those of the General Assembly for additional special contributions to the third programming cycle (1982-1985).

Page 6, paragraph 24

24. At Ramallah, where specific research projects are now getting under way, these projects will include an evaluation of a plan for expanded primary health care in the villages of the area; evaluative studies of the practices and outcomes of the work of traditional birth attendants as a component of primary health care; continuation of previous studies of growth and development of infants and children; evaluative studies on the effects of the intensive programme of immunization against tetanus neonatorum and adult tetanus; evaluation of the routine immunization programme for the prevention of rubella; a study to assess the utilization and impact of oral Dehydration therapy in primary health care and in hospital centres; basic epidemiological studies of acute respiratory diseases and further studies related to the prevalence of lead intoxication in a number of villages in the area, in the epidemiology of hepatitis and of brucellosis, as well as studies related to nutrition, breast-feeding and anaemia.

* A/40/150.

** E/1985/100.