The Second Committee (Economic and Financial) this morning elected by acclamation Giovanni Brauzzi (Italy), Daul Matute (Peru) and Alexandru Niculescu (Romania) as Vice-Chairmen, and Hassam Edin A’Ala (Syria) as Rapporteur. The Committee also adopted its programme of work for the fifty-fourth session as orally amended. Committee Chairman Roble Olhaye (Djibouti) was elected on 14 September.
According to the programme of work, most matters before the Committee were clustered under the following 10 headings: macro- economic policy questions; sectoral policy questions; sustainable development and international economic cooperation; environmental and sustainable development; operational activities for development; training and research; permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the occupied Palestinian territory, including Jerusalem, and of the Arab population in the occupied Syrian Golan over their natural resources; globalization and interdependence; implementation of the first United Nations Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006); and report of the Economic and Social Council.
The representative of Sweden proposed that consideration regarding follow-up of the World Summit for Children, which was to be considered by the Second Committee under agenda item 101(a), should be considered both directly in the plenary as well as in the Committee. The Committee Chairmen said he would inform the President of the General Assembly of that request.
The Committee will meet again at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday 6 October, to begin its general debate.
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