It is my hope and that of the participants of the Conference that you will consider this request favourably.

Those subsidiary organs that wish to meet during a regular session of the Assembly submit their request through the Committee on Conferences.

Small island developing States have high expectations of this summit with regard to obtaining the necessary support to implement the Mauritius Strategy.

It also considered the draft of the third Medium term Perspective for 1996 to 2001 and requested that amendments be made in the document for consideration by the Bureau in July 1996 and at the forty third session of the Council in December 1996.

It hoped that all Member States would support its request for three sessions per year from 2006.

The Special Rapporteur would emphasize the need for greater coordination, as called for by the World Conference on Human Rights in Vienna.

To refer the request of Kuwait for the return of confidential documents to an informal meeting of the Working Group for further consideration.

In accordance with established procedure, chairmen of subsidiary organs of the General Assembly that wish to meet at Headquarters during the main part of the fifty third session of the Assembly should submit their requests to the Chairman of the Committee on Conferences.

Our draft resolution is a fair and equitable text that meets the aspirations and concerns of the majority of Member States.

The Arab Parliamentary Union was requested to organize a regional meeting every two years to take stock of progress.

A member State wishing to participate in a trade efficiency assessment would make an official request to UNCTAD to undertake the assessment.

Closing Session Summary of Discussion and Thinking Ahead

We would like to see this Conference adopt a decision that would make annual reporting to Treaty sessions a requirement for all members.

We were equally disappointed at the inability of the summit to make any progress on that absolutely vital issue.

1. Meeting services requirements

Those subsidiary organs that wish to meet during a regular session of the Assembly submit their requests through the Committee on Conferences.

By subparagraph 155 (b), the General Assembly would call on the Council to convene a biennial high level Development Cooperation Forum to review trends in international development cooperation by subparagraph 155 (c), it would call on the Council to ensure the follow up of the outcomes of major United Nations meetings and hold annual ministerial level substantive reviews to assess progress.

The Committee wishes to develop a constructive dialogue with Mauritius in relation to measures it is taking to implement the Resolution, in particular to those identified by the CTC as a priority.

It should not be expected from UNCTAD that it could carry out all necessary responsibilities in this broad domain.

He expected the demand for natural rubber to increase as the economy of his country expanded.

He consequently urged the prompt implementation of the policy recommendations of the Global Conference on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States, which had been held in Barbados.

Total meeting services requirements

Activities by which the proposed requests would be implemented

Difficulties, suggestions and prospects

The Committee requests that progress in this regard be reported in the next proposed programme budget of ECA.

Plans call for its issuance at the forty fourth session of the Commission for Social Development in February 2006.

Secondly, it asks that the summit outcome acknowledge the special needs of small island developing States.

43. In conclusion, he asked when the Secretariat expected the report requested in paragraph 14 of General Assembly resolution 51 221 to be available.

He hoped that the Working Party would agree on the introduction of a greater thematic concentration of trust funds around the four main areas of UNCTAD's work, as called for in UNCTAD's technical cooperation strategy adopted by the Trade and Development Board in 2003.

The international community is calling for concrete progress.

3. Also welcomes the desire of the Conference on Disarmament to promote substantive progress during its 1998 session, and expresses the hope that appropriate consultations during the inter sessional period could lead to the commencement of early work on various agenda items

In addition, OHCHR has been asked to support specific activities mandated by resolutions of the Commission.

Chapter VI Applications for consultative status received from non governmental organizations wishing to participate in the work of the Commission on Sustainable Development

World Social Prospects Association

22. In the year ahead, ECA expects to provide further technical assistance to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at the request of the Government, in the five priority areas that it identified at the Brussels meeting of the Friends of the Congo .

The Committee requests that progress in this regard be reported in the next proposed programme budget of ECA.

I wish to inform you that the Committee on Conferences has received a request from the Committee on Information to meet in New York during the fifty third session of the General Assembly.

The report of the Commission on Enterprise, Business Facilitation and Development at its ninth session (TD B COM.3 70) contained a number of recommendations for action by UNCTAD.

He hoped that funds would be forthcoming to allow UNCTAD to respond to requests for assistance.

We hope that Iran will take the opportunity to implement in full, the requests made by the IAEA Board in its resolution of 24 September.

During the first of these meetings, the Undersecretary said that Egypt was anxious to comply, as far as possible, with the request by the Government of Sweden for an inquiry.

This demand for reform comes primarily but not exclusively from recipient countries that wish to reduce the excessive complexity of the development cooperation process.

UNCCD Secretariat activities as requested under selected COP 6 decisions

54. The series of global conferences held in recent years had made it possible to create a new vision of development.

The President notified the meeting that he had not been informed that any state wished to make such a request at the First Review Conference.