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Economic and Social Council

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 May 2009

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The Economic and Social Council resumed its 20th session at UN Headquarters with its 894th meeting on December 5, and concluded the session with its 899th meeting on December 15. The Council formulated its basic program of work for 1956, considered and with minor changes approved the provisional agenda for its 21st session which had been drawn up by the Secretary-General, and adopted a draft list of items for the 22d session, which it planned to review at the 21st session. The Council dealt as follows with questions arising out of the tenth session of the General Assembly: 1) it decided that in the course of considering the general agenda item financing of economic development at its 22d session, it would deal with the establishment of the Special United Nations Fund for Economic Development (SUNFED), the international flow of private capital, and international tax problems, as sub-items; 2) it approved without discussion the Secretary-General's proposals relating to advisory services in the field of human rights;1 and 3) it approved without objections the Secretary-General's proposals with regard to the administration of programs of technical assistance. The question of re-establishing the Council's discontinued Economic, Employment and Development Commission was considered at the resumed 20th session, as were its terms of reference in the event that it should be reactivated. A number of representatives held the view that the functions performed by the Commission had been assigned to other bodies, and that revival of the Commission would lead to overlapping and inefficiency; it was also argued that while a commission of experts had been invaluable in the planning stage of economic development, governmental representation, as in the case of the Council's other commissions, could be more effective in the stage of actual operations.

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International Organizations: Summary of Activities: I. United Nations
Information
International Organization , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , May 1956 , pp. 292 - 304
Copyright
Copyright © The IO Foundation 1956

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References

1 Document A/3032.

2 Document E/L.690/Rev.i.

3 Document E/2665 and Corr.i.

4 Document E/2787/Rev.i.

5 Document E/L.685.

6 Document E/2800.

7 Document E/L.692.

8 Document E/L.691.

9 For information on consideration of this question at the first part of the 20th session, see International Organization, X, p. 154.

10 For information on the admission of new members to the UN, see International Organization, X, p. 78–81, 139–143.

11 Document E/L.695.

12 Document E/2796/Rev.i (Economic and Social Council Official Records(20th session), Supplement 10A); for a summary of the sixth session of ECLA, see this issue, p. 294–296.

13 Document E/2796/Rev.i (Economic and Social Council Official Records (20th session), Supplement 10A); for information on consideration of the report of the sixth session by ECOSOC, see this issue, p. 294.

14 Document E/CN.12/362/Rev.i.

15 United Nations Press Release EC/1562, February 15, 1956; for information on the eleventh session, see International Organization, X, p. 151–152.

16 United Nations Press Release EC/1540, January 5, 1956; for information on the first session of the Commission, see International Organization, IX, p. 269, 390–391.

17 The United States was not represented at the session.

18 For information on a recent meeting of the Committee on Commodity Problems, see this issue, p. 310–311.

19 See International Organization, X, p. 228.

20 United Nations Press Release SOC/2186, March 29, 1956; for information on the ninth session, see International Organization, IX, p. 268.

21 For information on this conference, see International Organization, IX, p. 276.

22 For information on discussion of the draft convention at the tenth session of the General Assembly, see International Organization, X, p. 103–105.

23 Document E/CN.4/Sub.2/L.92 and Adds. 1–27.

24 See International Organization, X, p. 101–102.

25 United Nations Press Release SOC/2136, January 20, 1956; for information on the seventh session of the Subcommission, see International Organization, IX, p. 267–268.

26 United Nations Press Release SOC/2184, March 29, 1956; for discussion of the report of the eleventh session of the Commission, see International Organization, X p. 161–162.

27 United Nations Press Release EC/1516, September 27, 1955; ibid., EC/1530, November 16, 1955; and ibid., EC/WHEAT/6, November 2, 1955.

28 Ibid., EC/1578, March 28, 1956.

29 For information on relevant FAO activities, see International Organization, IX, p. 161, 421.

30 United Nations Press Release EC/1521, October 24. 1955; for the text of the resolutions adopted by the Conference and of the Olive Oil Agreement, see United Nations Conference on Olive Oil, 1955, Summary of Proceedings (Document E/CONF.19/5).

31 United Nations Press Release L/443, February 15, 1956.