Index to Proceedings ofthe Economic and Social Council Organizational session - 2003 Substantive session - 2003 Dag Hammarskjold Library New York, 2004 United Nations DAG HAMMARSKJOLD liBRARY Bibliographical Series, No. E.80 STIll BISER. B/E.80 UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATION Sales No. E.04.1.24 ISUN 92·1-100953-7 ISSN 0082·ROR4 Copyright C lJnilcd Nations, 2004 All rights reserved Prilllcd in United Nations. NewYork CONTENTS Introduction . v Abbreviations . vii Sessional information . ix SUbsidiary bodies and organs and programmes related to the Economic and Social Council to which members were elected or appointed during the 2003 sessions of the Council. xi Organizational session Check-list of meetings . 1 Agenda . 2 Subject index . 3 Index to speeches . 11 Substantive session Check-list of meetings. ............................................ 23 Agenda.... .. .. ... 25 SUbject index. 27 Index to speeches. 75 List of resolutions. 135 List of documents. ................................................ 139 - iii- This page intentionally left blank INTRODUCTION The Economic and Social Council, under the authority of the SUbsidiary bodies and organs and General Assembly, is the United Nations organ which programmes related to the Economic ard Social coordinates the economic and social work of the United Council to which members were elected or Nations and its system of organizations. The Council has appointed during the 2003 sessions of the Council, 54 members and until 1991 held the following sessions listing the members and terms of office. each year: a short organizational session in New York in January, the first regular session in New York in May, the second regular session in Geneva in JUly. The rules of The second section consists of two parts, one for each procedure of the Council Wffe amended by resolution session which met during the year. Each part is subdivided 1992/2 and from 1992 on, the Council normally holds an as follows: organizational session in February in New York and one substantive session, with one "high-level segment" a year; Check-list of meetings, listing the meetings of the substantive session takes place in alternate years in the Economic and Social Council and its sessional New York and Geneva between May and July. Throughout committees; the year there are meetings of the Council's committees, commissions and other subsidiary bodies. Agenda, listing matters considered by and brought before the Council and the subject headings under The Index to Proceedings of the Economic and Social which these items appear in the SUbjectindex; Council is an annual bibliographic guide to the proceedings and documentation of the Economic and Social Council. Subject index, providing topical access to This issue covers the year 2003, which includes the Economic and Social Council documentation arranged documentation of the organizational and the substantive alphabetically by SUbject and listing documents considered sessions. The Index is prepared by the Dag Hammarskjold under each item, meetings at which the items were Library, Department of Public Information, as one of the considered and the action taken by the Council; products of the United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBIS). Index to speeches, providing access to speeches that were made before the Council. The Index is divided into three sections: corporate names/countries. speakers and subjects. ARRANGEMENT OF THE INDEX The third section contains consolidated information relating The Index consists of three sections. to resolutions, documents and reports: List of resolutions, listing resolutions adopted The first section contains information relating to by the Council and indicating for each session the organizational matters: resolution number, the subject and the meeting and date when the resolution was adopted; Sessional information, listing member States and their terms of office as well as the officers of the List of documents. lsting documents issued Council and providing information on rules of procedure and for the year 2003 and providing information on the resolutions and decisions; republication of provisional documents in printed Official Records; - v- SERIES SYMBOLS DOCUMENTATION OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL In 1978 certain modifications were introduced in the citation and series symbols of the documents of the Economic and Summary records of plenary meetings of the Economic and Social Council. They are as follows: Social Council are first issued in provisional form for limited distribution. They are later combined in corrected form in a (a) The sessions of the Council are formally single printed volume of Official Records for the year. identified as the organizational and substantive sessions of a particular calendar year, as prescribed in rule 1 of the All summary records may be identified by their symbol. rules of procedure of the Council; which consists of the series symbol followed by SR. and then a number which corresponds to the number of the (b) Special sessions, including subject-oriented meeting. The 5th plenary meeting, for example, is cited as sessions, are numbered consecutively within each year, E12003/SR,5. and are identified as the first special session (year), second special session (year), etc; Some documents may later be printed as Supplements to the Official Records (and are so indicated in this index); (c) Ad hoc sessional committees may be others are issued only in provisional form. established as required and are described as ad hoc sessional committees on particular subjects; HOW TO OBTAIN DOCUMENTS (d) Supplements to the Official Records are numbered consecutively, with Supplements No.1 and 1A containing the resolutions and decisions adopted during the Printed documentation of the Economic and Social Council year. for 2003 may be obtained or purchased from authorized sales agents by providing the following information: Symbols of documents of the Council and its ad hoc committees or other bodies consist of combinations as Official Records of the Economic and Social appropriate, of the following elements: Council, 2003: (a) The parent body (i.e. the Economic and Social Meeting No. (specify meeting number) for Council): EI- ; summary record fascicles; (b) The year of consideration; Supplement No. (specify supplement number). - vi- ABBREVIATIONS ACABQ AdvisoryCommittee on Administrative and BUdgetary Questions ACC Administrative Committee on Coordination Add. addendum, addenda AIDS Acquiredimmunedeficiency syndrome ASEAN Association of South-East Asian Nations ch. chapter(s) Corr. corrigendum, corrigenda CPC Committee for Programme and Coordination ECJ.\ EconomicCommissionfor Africa ECE EconomicCommission for Europe ECLAC EconomicCommission for latin Americaand the Caribbean ECOSOC EconomicandSocialCouncil ESCAP Economicand SocialCommission for Asia and the Pacific ESCOR Official Records ofthe General Assembly ESCWA Economicand Social Commission for Westem Asia FAO Food and Agriculture Organization of the UnitedNations GAOR OfficialRecords of the General Assembly GATT GeneralAgreementon Tariffs andTrade lAEA International Atomic Energy Agency IBRD International Bank for Reconstruction and Development IFAD Intemational Fundfor Agricultural Development IlO International labour Organization IMF Intemational MonetaryFund lMO International Maritime Organization INCB International Narcotics Control Board INSTRAW Intemational Research and Training Institutefor the Advancement of Women ITU Intemational Telecommunicetion Union - vii - JIU Joint Inspection Unit MULPOC Multinational Programming and Operational Cenlre OAU Organization of African Unity OECD Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development PLO Palestine Liberation Organization Rev. Revision sess. session Suppl. Supplement UN United Nations UNCED United Nations Conference on Environment and Development UNCTAD United Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNDP United Nations Development Programme UNEP United Nations Environment Programme Unesco United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNFPA United Nations Population Fund UNICEF United Nations Children's Fund UNIDO United Nations Industrial Development Organization UNITAR United Nations Institute for Training and Research United Kingdom United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland United Stales United States of America UNRWA United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East vol. volume(s) WHO World Health Organization - viii - SESSIONAL INFORMATION MEMBERS AND TERM OF OFFICE Members Date of election Term of office Members Date of election Term of office by the (1 Jan.-31 Dec.) by the (1 Jan.-31 General Assembly General Assembly Dec.) Armenia 11 Nov. 2003 2004-2006 Jamaica 3 Oct. 2002 2003-2005 Australia 26 Oct. 2001 2002-2004 Japan 3 Oct. 2002 2003-2005 Azerbaijan 3 oct. 2002 2003-2005 Kenya 3 Oct. 2002 2003-2005 Bangladesh 11 Nov. 2003 2004-2006 Libyan Arab Jamahiriya 260ct. 2001 2002-2004 Belgium 11 Nov. 2003 2004-2006 Malaysia 3 Oct. 2002 2003-2005 Belize 11 Nov. 2003 2004-2006 MauriUus 11 Nov. 2003 2004-2006 Benin 3 Oct. 2002 2003-2005 Mozambique 3 Oct. 2002 2003-2005 Bhutan 26 Oct. 2001 2002-2004 Namibia 11 Nov. 2003 2004-2006 Burundi 26 Oct. 2001 2002-2004 Nicaragua 3 Oct. 2002 2003-2005 Canada 11 Nov. 2003 2004-2006 Nigeria 11 Nov. 2003 2004-2006 Chile 26 Oct. 2001 2002-2004 Panama 11 Nov. 2003 2004-2006 China 26 Oct. 2001 2002-2004 Poland 11 Nov. 2003 2004·2006 Colombia 11 Nov. 2003 2004-2006 Qatar 26 Oct. 2001 2002-2004 Congo