ECOSOC action – Press release (excerpts)

Economic and Social Council

Substantive Session

41st Meeting (PM)

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL ADOPTS RECOMMENDATIONS

OF FOUR SUBSIDIARY BODIES

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The Council will meet again at 10 a.m. tomorrow, 27 July, to consider 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.  It will also consider economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan.

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