Special ad hoc meetings of the Economic and Social Council

2016 ◽  
pp. 71-72
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Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Social Council

Economic and Social Council

1947 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-115 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
New York ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
September 11 ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Council ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
First Session

Established by the Charter as one of the principal organs of the United Nations, and entrusted with the solution of international economic and social problems and with international cultural and educational cooperation, the Economic and Social Council met three times during 1946 to discuss both organizational and substantive matters. The First Session was held in London from January 23 to February 16, the Second in New York from May 25 to June 21, and the Third in New York from September 11 to October 3. In addition an ad hoc meeting of the Third Session, to confirm appointments to the various Council Commissions, was held on December 10.

Economic and Social Council

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-294
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Concentration Camps ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
Single Session ◽  
Associate Member ◽  
Social Council

The second part of the thirteenth session of the Economic and Social Council was held in Paris from December 18 to 21, 1951 to consider work plans and provisional agenda for 1952.1 It was decided to include on the 1952 agenda the question of Japan's admission to ECAFE as an associate member, as proposed by Pakistan, and to exclude other items – the problem of statelessness, the plight of survivors1 of concentration camps and the reports of the Council's Ad HocCommittee on Forced Labor. A Soviet proposal to hold a single session during 1952 was adopted by a vote of 7 to 4 with 3 abstentions. This session, the fourteenth, was scheduled to begin on May 13.

The Kashmir Dispute and the United Nations

1949 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josef Korbel
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Security Council ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Good Case ◽  
Special Groups ◽  
Social Council ◽  
Subordinate Group ◽  
The United Nations

During the last two years, the major organs of the United Nations have shown an increasing tendency to attempt the solution of international problems through the employment of special bodies and committees, rather than trying directly to resolve the myriad problems of each dispute. The General Assembly has established special groups on the Balkans, Korea and Palestine and has turned a number of questions over to its Interim Committee, while both the Trusteeship Council and the Economic and Social Council have often worked through ad hoc bodies. The Security Council has also delegated its powers under the Charter on a number of occasions. While retaining general supervision, and requiring that final results be subject to its approval, the Security Council in the case of Indonesia, Palestine and Greece, for example, has created sub-groups possessing a wide latitude of action operating under rather general instructions. Since this procedure enables a subordinate group to concentrate on the problem in hand – and since the creation of such a group may well be undertaken as a means of circumventing the Council's unanimity principle in voting – a study of the subsidiary commissions is of some interest. The United Nations Commission on India and Pakistan is a good case in point.

Bureaucratic Politics and the World Food Conference: The International Policy Process

1976 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 422-439 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas G. Weiss ◽  
Robert S. Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Bureaucratic Politics ◽  
World Food ◽  
Food And Agriculture ◽  
Food And Agriculture Organization ◽  
Social Council ◽  
The World ◽  
Policy Challenge ◽  
Un General Assembly ◽  
Multilateral Diplomacy

It is generally recognized that there are enormous difficulties, bureaucratic as well as political, that attend attempts to ameliorate human problems which arise from the growing interdependence of states. The policy challenge therefore is how to create—or alternatively, how to understand and then to reform—the existing machinery of international administration to enable it to cope with interdependence. The World Food Conference, held in Rome on November 5–16, 1974, was not only an exercise in ad hoc multilateral diplomacy designed to meet the immediate threats of the food crisis; it was also an attempt to rebuild the international food bureaucracy, either by replacing the Food and Agriculture Organization or by reforming it. The Conference largely succeeded in this task; it created a World Food Council, organizationally linked to the FAO in Rome, but separately responsible to the UN General Assembly through the Economic and Social Council. Thus, an examination of the leadership of the Secretariat of the World Food Conference provides a classic case for the study of bureaucratic politics: an international secretariat not merely indirectly influenced the shape of policy; it actually made policy.

Economic and Social Council

1955 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-395
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
The United States ◽  
Regional Trade ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Social Council ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
Draft Resolution

CommissionsEconomic Commission for Europe: The tenth session of the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) was held in Geneva from March 15 to 30, 1955, under the chairmanship of Mr. Max Suetens (Belgium). Delegates from 25 European countries and the United States, as well as observers from Australia, Brazil, Canada, Iran, Israel, and several specialized agencies and inter-governmental and non-governmental organizations attended the meeting. Action was taken at the session on reports from a number of the Commission's committees. After discussion of the desirability of re-convening the Industry and Materials Committee, a resolution was unanimously adopted calling for the convening of an ad hoc working party on agricultural machinery, and inviting governments to suggest to the Executive Secretary of ECE the establishment of further ad hoc working parties to deal with specific economic, industrial, legal or institutional problems. The Housing Sub-Committee was raised to the status of an independent committee, as a result of unanimous approval of a resolution sponsored by the United Kingdom. A draft resolution sponsored by the Soviet Union in the course of debate on the report of the Trade Committee, which would have called for action on the matter of strategic goods restrictions on east-west trade, was rejected by 13 votes to 5. Other resolutions adopted by the Committee included the following: 1) a resolution submitted jointly by the Soviet Union and the United Kingdom on the exchange of technical experience, which noted the positive work on technical questions already being done by the committees, and recommended the expansion of reciprocal exchange of technical experience between the countries in the Commission, was adopted unanimously; 2) as a result of consideration of the question of inter-regional cooperation, a resolution was unanimously adopted which reaffirmed the view of the Commission that inter-regional trade consultations of the type used in ECE might be useful for strengthening inter-regional trade relations and expanding world trade, and which called the matter to the attention of the Economic and Social Council; and 3) a Soviet draft resolution calling for representation of the German Democratic Republic and of the Federal Republic of Germany at the tenth session of ECE was defeated in a vote of 13 to 5 after representatives of a number of western countries maintained that, under the Commission's terms of reference, Germany could be represented only through the delegations of the occupying powers.

Economic and Social Council

1952 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-105
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Work Load ◽  
Basic Program ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Annual Session ◽  
Social Council ◽  
Prepared State ◽  
Basic Work ◽  
Regular Session

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.

Economic and Social Council

1948 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 506-514
Keyword(s):  
Ad Hoc ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
The Third ◽  
Social Council ◽  
Economic Commission ◽  
Rules Of Procedure ◽  
Emergency Fund ◽  
Regular Session ◽  
Made In

The seventh session of the Economic and Social Council convened at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, on July 19, 1948. Included on its provisional agenda of 50 items were reports on the activities of ECOSOC's functional and regional economic commissions and of the specialized agencies as well as reports on special matters of particular importance. Among the latter group were those dealing with the conferences on freedom of information and on trade and employment, the progress made in repatriation and resettlement of refugees and displaced persons, the achievements of the International Children's Emergency Fund and the United Nations Appeal for Children, and the problems of relations with and coordination of programs of the specialized agencies. The Council received further reports from its ad hoc committees on the proposed Economic Commission for the Middle East and on the draft pact on genocide. Procedural matters on ECOSOC's agenda included the election of one-third of the members of the functional commissions and confirmation of their membership, revision of the Council's rules of procedure, and the preparation of its report for submission to the third regular session of the General Assembly.

Economic and Social Council

1953 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 258-266
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
National Committee ◽  
National Council ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Social Council ◽  
First Session

Ad Hoc Committee on Forced Labor: Following the practice adopted at its first session, the second and third sessions of the Ad Hoc Committee on Forced Labor were held in private; Sir Ramaswami Mudaliar (India) served as chairman and rapporteur for both sessions. The principal item on the agenda of the second session – New York, June 2–July 1, 1952 – was the study of replies of governments to the questionnaire submitted after the first session and of documentation submitted by the Secretariat and non-governmental organizations. Replies had been received from 42 states and 16 non-governmental organizations. The committee decided to extend from March 31, 1952, to June 15, 1952 the time limit for reception of material or requests for hearings and later decided to interpret this limitation flexibly, especially if the evidence offered aimed at rebutting other evidence before the committee. Requests for hearings were granted to the Association of Former Political Prisoners of Soviet Labour Camps, Council of Free Czechoslovakia, Estonian Consultative Panel, Hungarian National Council, International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, International League for the Rights of Man, Latvian Consultative Panel, Lithuanian Consultative Panel, National Committee for a Free Europe, and the Rumanian National Committee. The committee authorized its chairman to prepare letters, for consideration at a later session, informing individual governments of the allegations made against them.

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