Provisional Agenda and Documentation for the Substantive Session of 2007 of the Economic and Social Council

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A Decision of the Economic and Social Council, published in 2008.

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3 versions · 2008–2011

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2011	E/DEC/2011/203	Provisional agenda and documentation for the substantive session of 2011 of the Economic and Social Council	5,324	37%Compare
2011	E/DEC/2010/203	Provisional agenda and documentation for the substantive session of 2010 of the Economic and Social Council	2,978	43%Compare
2008	E/DEC/2007/209	Provisional agenda and documentation for the substantive session of 2007 of the Economic and Social Council	2,831	–

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At its 7th plenary meeting, on 15 March 2007, the Economic and Social Council, having considered the proposed basic programme of work of the Council for 2007 and 2008,3 approved the following provisional agenda and documentation for its substantive session of 2007, as orally corrected.

Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters

High-level segment

High-level policy dialogue with international financial and trade institutions

Documentation

World Economic and Social Survey, 2007 (chap. I) (General Assembly resolutions 118 (II) and 52/180 and Council resolution 1983/50)

Thematic discussion

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the theme to be selected at the organizational session for 2007 (General Assembly resolution 61/16, para. 2 (c)) [Council decision 2007/206]

Annual ministerial review

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the theme to be selected at the organizational session for 2007 (General Assembly resolution 61/16, para. 10) [Council decision 2007/207]

World Economic and Social Survey, 2007 (chap. I) (General Assembly resolutions 118 (II) and 52/180 and Council resolution 1983/50)

Relevant part of the report of the Committee for Development Policy on its ninth session (Council resolutions 1079 (XXXIX) and 1998/46) [At the 48th plenary meeting of its resumed substantive session for 2006, on 15 December 2007, the Council deferred consideration of the report of the Committee for Development Policy on its eighth session4 until the Council’s organizational session of 2007 (Council decision 2006/266).]

Relevant part of the report of the Secretary-General on regional cooperation (Council decision 2004/323)

3 See E/2007/1 and Corr.1. 4 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 2006, Supplement No. 13 (E/2006/33).

Development Cooperation Forum

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the review and assessment of international economic and development policies and their impact on development – an analytical background report (General Assembly resolution 61/16, para. 7)

Operational activities of the United Nations for the international development cooperation segment

Operational activities of the United Nations for international development cooperation

Follow-up to policy recommendations of the General Assembly and the Council

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on comprehensive statistical data on operational activities for development of the United Nations system (General Assembly resolution 35/81)

Report of the Secretary-General on the triennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities for development of the United Nations system (General Assembly resolution 59/250 para. 103, and Council resolution 2006/14)

Consolidated list of issues related to the coordination of operational activities (Council resolution 1998/27, para. 4)

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

Documentation

Reports of the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme/United Nations Population Fund on its second regular session of 2006 and on its first regular session and annual session of 2007 (General Assembly resolutions 48/162, annex I,

and 59/250 and Council resolution 1995/51)

Annual report of the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (General Assembly resolutions 48/162, annex I, and 59/250 and Council resolution 1995/51)

Reports of the Executive Board of the United Nations Children’s Fund on its second regular session of 2006 and on its first regular session and annual session of 2007 (General Assembly resolutions 48/162, annex I, and 59/250 and Council resolution 1995/51)

Annual report of the Executive Director of the United Nations Children’s Fund (General Assembly resolutions 48/162, annex I, and 59/250 and Council resolution 1995/51)

Report of the Executive Board of the World Food Programme on its 2006 sessions (General Assembly resolutions 48/162, annex I, and 59/250 and Council resolution 1995/51)

Annual report of the Executive Director of the World Food Programme (General Assembly resolutions 50/8 and 59/250 and Council resolution 1995/51)

South-South cooperation for development

Documentation

Report of the High-level Committee on South-South Cooperation on its fifteenth session (General Assembly resolution 33/134)

Coordination segment

The role of the United Nations system in promoting full and productive employment and decent work for all

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General (Council decision 2006/274)

Humanitarian affairs segment

Special economic, humanitarian and disaster relief assistance

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the progress made in strengthening the coordination of emergency humanitarian assistance of the United Nations (General Assembly resolution 61/134 and Council resolution 2006/5)

Report of the Secretary-General on the detailed use of the Central Emergency Response Fund (General Assembly resolution 61/134)

Report of the Secretary-General on strengthening emergency relief, rehabilitation, reconstruction and prevention in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami disaster (General Assembly resolution 61/132)

General segment

Implementation of and follow-up to major international United Nations conferences and summits

Documentation

Updated report of the Secretary-General on the role of the Economic and Social Council in the integrated and coordinated implementation of the outcomes of and follow-up to major United Nations conferences and summits, in the light of General Assembly resolutions 50/227, 52/12 B, 57/270 B and 60/265 (Council resolution 2006/44) (see also items 8, 13 and 14)

Follow-up to the International Conference on Financing for Development

Documentation

Summary by the President of the Economic and Social Council of the special highlevel meeting of the Council with the Bretton Woods institutions, the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (General Assembly resolution 58/230 and Council resolution 2006/45)

Review and coordination of the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010

Documentation

Annual progress report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the Programme of Action for the Least Developed Countries for the Decade 2001–2010 (General Assembly resolution 61/1 and Council resolution 2006/41)

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Committee on World Food Security (Council decision 1999/212)

Coordination, programme and other questions

Reports of coordination bodies

Documentation

Report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on its forty-seventh session (Council resolution 2008 (LX))

Annual overview report of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination for 2006 (Council decision 2001/321)

Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008–2009

Documentation

Relevant sections of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2008–2009 (General Assembly resolution 58/269 and Council resolution 1988/77)

International cooperation in the field of informatics

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on action taken to follow up on the need to harmonize and improve United Nations informatics systems for optimal utilization and accessibility by all States, including the findings of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Informatics and an assessment of its work and mandate (Council resolution 2006/35)

Long-term programme of support for Haiti

Documentation

Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Haiti (Council resolution 2006/10)

Mainstreaming a gender perspective into all policies and programmes in the United Nations system

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on assessment of progress in gender mainstreaming in the policies and programmes of the United Nations system focusing on training and capacity development (General Assembly resolution 61/145 and Council resolutions 2006/9 and 2006/36) (see also item 14 (a))

Information and Communication Technologies Task Force

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the activities of the Global Alliance for Information and Communication Technologies and Development (Council decision 2006/251)

Ad hoc advisory groups on African countries emerging from conflict

Documentation

Report of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Guinea-Bissau (Council resolution 2006/11)

Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS)

Documentation

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) (Council resolution 2005/47)

Calendar of conferences and meetings in the economic, social and related fields

Documentation

Draft calendar of conferences and meetings in the economic, social and related fields for 2008 and 2009 (Council decision 52 (LVII))

Implementation of General Assembly resolutions 50/227, 52/12 B, 57/270 B and 60/265

Documentation

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

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on assistance to the Palestinian people (General Assembly resolution 61/135 and Council resolution 2100 (LXIII))

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 (Council resolution 2006/37)

Report of the Secretary-General on support to Non-Self-Governing Territories by the specialized agencies and international institutions associated with the United Nations (Council resolution 2006/37)

Regional cooperation

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General (Council decision 1979/1)

Economic trends as well as risks and opportunities for the economies in the Economic Commission for Europe region

Overview of the Economic Report on Africa, 2007

Summary of the Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific, 2007

Latin America and the Caribbean: economic situation and outlook, 2006–2007

Summary of the survey of economic and social developments in the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia region, 2006–2007

Note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Executive Secretaries of the Economic Commission for Africa and the Economic Commission for Europe on the project for a Europe-Africa fixed link through the Strait of Gibraltar (Council resolution 2005/34)

Economic and social repercussions of the Israeli occupation on the living conditions of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of Council resolution 2006/43

Non-governmental organizations

Documentation

Report of the Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (Council resolutions 3 (II) and 1996/31 and decisions 1995/304 and 2006/226)

Economic and environmental questions

Documentation

Sustainable development

Documentation

Report of the Commission on Sustainable Development on its fifteenth session (Council decisions 1993/207 and 2006/228)

Report of the Committee for Development Policy on its ninth session (Council resolutions 1079 (XXXIX) and 1998/46) [Recommendation 1 contained in the report of the Committee for Development Policy on its eighth session4 was deferred for consideration until the Council’s organizational session for 2007 (decision 2006/265).]

Report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Public-Private Alliance for Rural Development (Council resolution 2005/42)

Science and technology for development

Documentation

Report of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development on its tenth session (General Assembly resolutions 46/235, annex, and 56/182) [The report of the Commission on Science and Technology for Development on its ninth session2 was deferred for further consideration until the Council’s organizational session for 2007 (decision 2006/268).]

Statistics

Documentation

Report of the Statistical Commission on its thirty-eighth session (Council resolutions 8 (I), 8 (II) and 1566 (L) and decision 2006/232)

Human settlements

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the coordinated implementation of the Habitat Agenda (Council decision 2006/247)

Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) (General Assembly resolution 56/206)

Environment

Documentation

Report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Environment Programme on its twenty-fourth regular session (General Assembly resolutions 2997 (XXVII), 53/242 and 61/205)

Report of the Secretary-General on protection against products harmful to health and the environment (General Assembly resolution 39/229 and Council resolution 2004/55)

Population and development

Documentation

Report of the Commission on Population and Development on its fortieth session (General Assembly resolution 49/128 and Council decision 2006/233)

Public administration and development

Documentation

Report of the Committee of Experts on Public Administration on its sixth session (Council resolution 2006/47)

International cooperation in tax matters

Documentation

Report of the Committee of Experts on International Cooperation in Tax Matters on its second session (Council resolution 2006/48)

United Nations Forum on Forests

Documentation

Report of the United Nations Forum on Forests on its seventh session (Council resolution 2000/35 and decision 2006/255)

Assistance to third States affected by the application of sanctions

Documentation

No request for advance documentation

Cartography

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the seventeenth United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for Asia and the Pacific (Council resolutions 715 A (XXVII)

and 1314 (XLIV) and decision 2004/304)

Women and development

Documentation

Relevant sections of the report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its fiftyfirst session (General Assembly resolution 42/178 and Council resolution 1987/24)

Transport of dangerous goods

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (Council resolution 2005/53)

Social and human rights questions

Documentation

Updated report of the Secretary-General on the role of the Economic and Social Council in the integrated and coordinated implementation of the outcomes of and follow-up to major United Nations conferences and summits in the implementation of General Assembly resolutions 50/227, 52/12 B, 57/270 B and 60/265 (Council resolution 2006/44) (see also items 6, 8 and 13)

Advancement of women

Documentation

Report of the Commission on the Status of Women on its fifty-first session (Council resolutions 11 (II) and 1147 (XLI) and decision 2006/235)

Results of the thirty-seventh and thirty-eighth sessions of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women: note by the Secretary-General

Report of the Executive Board of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women (Council resolution 1998 (LX))

Social development

Documentation

Report of the Commission for Social Development on its forty-fifth session (Council resolution 10 (II) and decision 2006/238)

Report of the Secretary-General on the cluster entitled “Youth in the global economy”

of the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond (Council resolution 2006/15)

Crime prevention and criminal justice

Documentation

Report of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice on its sixteenth session (Council resolution 1992/1 and decision 2006/239)

Narcotic drugs

Documentation

Report of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs on its fiftieth session (Council resolution 9 (I) and decision 2006/241)

Report of the International Narcotics Control Board (article 15 of the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, 1961; article 18 of the Convention on Psychotropic Substances, 1971; and article 23 of the 1988 United Nations Convention against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances)

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Documentation

Oral report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (General Assembly resolution 58/153)

Comprehensive implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action

Documentation

No request for advance documentation

Human rights

Documentation

Report of the Human Rights Committee (article 45 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights)

Report of the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (Council resolutions 1988 (LX) and 1985/17)

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (General Assembly resolution 48/141)

Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues

Documentation

Report of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues on its sixth session (Council resolution 2000/22 and decision 2006/272)

Genetic privacy and non-discrimination

Documentation

Report of the Secretary-General on genetic privacy and non-discrimination (Council resolution 2004/9)

United Nations research and training institutes

Documentation

Report of the United Nations System Staff College in Turin, Italy (General Assembly resolution 60/214)

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