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Economic and Social Council
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
Extract
This issue covers the remainder of the work of the thirteenth session of the Economic and Social Council. The Council met in Geneva from July 30 to September 21, 1951.
Organization of the Council: During the thirteenth session great importance was attached to the necessity of insuring that business reached the Council in a well-prepared state and that Members had adequate time to study it. An effort was made to spread the work-load over the year in a pattern which would best facilitate the operations of all the international organizations concerned. Although the Ad Hoc Committee on the Organization and Operation of the Council and its Commissions had suggested three annual sessions of the Council, the majority of members were agreed that the existing arrangement of two regular annual sessions was sufficient — with the qualification that, henceforth, the second session should not be closed before the opening of the annual session of the General Assembly, but should be resumed towards the end of the session. The resumed ECOSOC session would decide how questions referred to the Council by the General Assembly should be handled and plan the basic program of work for the following year. As far as possible, major economic items would be considered in the first regular session of the year, with the bulk of the major social and human rights questions falling in the second regular session. The Council's agenda procedure was modified so that each year the Council would plan its basic work program and calendar of conferences for the following year; moreover, at each regular session, the Council would in the future settle the detailed provisional agenda for the following session — with appropriate provisions for the insertion of urgent items at a later date.
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References
1 The summary of the thirteenth session of ECOSOC has been divided in two parts — for first section, see International Organization, V, p. 743.
2 For summary of ECLA's third annual report, see International Organization, V, p. 570.
3 Documents E/CN.12/221, May 18, 1951, E/CN.12/234, May 5, 1951, E/CN.12/226, April 5, 1951, E/CN.12/219.
4 Document E/2002, June 13, 1951.
5 For a summary of ECE's sixth session, see International Organization, V, p. 569.
6 For a summary of the Economic Survey for Europe in 1950, see ibid.
7 See this issue p. 90.
8 United Nations Press Release ECE/GEN/ 129, November 1, 1951.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid., ECE/GEN/128, November 1, 1951.
11 Ibid., ECE/GEN/130, November 1, 1951.
12 United Nations Press Release ECE/TRANS/31, September 5, 1951, and Press Release ECE/TRANS/32, September 6, 1951.
13 Document E/1981, April 16, 1951.
14 For a summary of ECAFE's seventh session, see International Organization, V, p. 568.
15 United Nations Press Release EC/1022, August 27, 1951, and United Nations, Bulletin, XI, p. 220.
16 Document E/2001, June 6, 1951.
17 For a summary of action and studies concerning economic development of underdeveloped countries and the methods of financing such development, see International Organization, V, p. 750; and see documents E/1986, E/2006, E/2061, E/2102, and E/L.221.
18 For the full text of the resolution, see document E/2115, September 7, 1951.
19 For a summary of TAB's report, see International Organization, V, p. 751; for summaries of the previous developments in the technical assistance program, see ibid., IV, p. 81, 448, 644, and, V, p. 338, 547.
20 For the full text of the Council resolution, see document E/2108.
21 Document E/2042, June 29, 1951.
22 Document E/2030.
23 United Nations Press Release ECOSOC/878.
24 For the Secretary-General's report on the procedures which might be followed, see document E/2039.
25 For the full text of the Council's resolution, see document E/2116.
26 See International Organization, V, p. 122–123.
27 Document E/2003, June 14, 1951.
28 ECOSOC, Official Records (13th session), p. 497.
29 For the full text of the Council's resolution, see document E/2124.
30 Document E/2032, June 25, 1951; and see International Organization, V, p. 572, 757.
31 For a summary of the discussion which took place, including the text of the resolution adopted, see United Nations Press Release ECOSOC/884; for a summary of the General Assembly's Korean relief and rehabilitation plan, see International Organization, V, p. 127.
32 Document A/AC.42/7, February 7, 1951; and see International Organization, V, p. 144 and p. 564.
33 See ibid., II, p. 328.
34 See this issue p. 90.
35 Document E/CN.4/Sub.l/156, October 2, 1951.
36 Documents E/1988, May 4, 1951, and E/1988/Add.l, August 6, 1951.
37 For a summary of previous Council decisions in this matter, see International Organization, V, p. 552.
38 Document E/2087, August 21, 1951.
39 For the full text of the Council's resolution, see document E/2122.
40 Document E/2009.
41 United Nations Press Release SOC/1265, October 16, 1951; E/CN.4/Sub.2/L.4; E/CN.4/Sub.2/L.5; E/CN.4/Sub.2/L.10; E/CN. 4/Sub.2/L.10/Add.l.
42 Document E/2154, September 27, 1951.
43 Documents E/CN.4/Sub.2/SR66, E/CN.4/Sub.2/SR67, E/CN.4/Sub.2/SR68, E/CN.4/Sub.2/SR69, E/CN.4/Sub.2/SR70.
44 Document E/CN.4/641, October 25, 1951, p. 18; Document E/CN.4/Sub.2/L.7/Rev.l.
45 For summaries of earlier Council consideration of the question of forced labor, see International Organization, V, p. 185 and p. 551.
46 United Nations Press Release SOC/1267, October 30, 1951; and see United Nations, Bulletin, XI, p. 367 and p. 413.
47 Document E/CN.9/89, October 23, 1951.
48 For a summary of the Council's consideration of the work and report of the Population Commission, see International Organization, V, p. 759; and, for a summary of the work of the Population Commission, itself, see Ibid., V, p. 564, and United Nations, Bulletin, XI, p. 541.
49 For a summary of the administrative decisions of the Council as regards the organization and operation of the Council and its subsidiary bodies, see this issue, p. 90.
50 Documents E/1991, May 15, 1951, and E/1991/Add.l, May 15, 1951.
51 For a summary of the committee's eleventh session, see International Organization, V, p. 575.
52 Document E/2060.
53 The Council elects Member countries of the United Nations as members of functional commissions; these states, in turn, after consultation with the Secretary-General, nominate individuals as their representatives; those individuals must then be confirmed by the Council.
54 For changes in the organization and structure of the functional commission, see this issue, p. 90.
55 Documents E/2008 and E/2008/Add.l.
56 For a consideration of the food shortage and famine problems, as posed before the Council, see United Nations, Bulletin, XI, p. 313.
57 For a summary of the world situation in pulp and paper, see International Organization, V, p. 851.
58 For the full text of the resolution, see document E/2139.
59 The experts comprise a subsidiary body of the Transport and Communications Commission, whose report was considered and acted upon by the Council during its thirteenth session, see International Organization, V, p. 759.
60 Document E/CN.2/118, September 12, 1951.