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Economic and Social Council
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 May 2009
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The thirty-second session of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), comprising the 1150th to the 1182d meetings inclusive, was held in Geneva from July 4 to August 4, 1961. In opening the session, Mr. Foss Shanahan (New Zealand), President for 1961, drew attention to the important role of the Council as the body primarily responsible for the work of the UN and its related agencies in promoting economic and social development.
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1 For a summary of the 31st session of the Council, see International Organization, Autumn 1961 (Vol. 15, No. 4), p. 662–670CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed.
2 Document E/3501 and Adds.1–6.
3 Documents E/3492, E/3513, and E/3520, respectively.
4 Documents E/3476 and E/3514, respectively.
5 See General Assembly Resolution 1496 (XV), October 27, 1960.
6 See General Assembly Resolution 1521 (XV), December 15, 1960.
7 Document E/L.908.
8 See above, note 4.
9 Documents E/3546 and E/3549.
10 Documents E/3452/Rev.1, E/3466, E/3468, E/3486, and E/3522.
11 Document E/L.909)/Rev.1.
12 See ECOSOC Resolution 793 (XXX), August 3, 1960, and General Assembly Resolution 1518 (XV), December 15, 1960, respectively.
13 Document E/3500.
14 Documents E/3435 and E/3521 and Corr.1, respectively.
15 Document E/3538.
16 Documents E/3447, E/3497, E/3508, and E/3526.
17 Document E/3541.
18 Document E/3547 and Corr.1. The Council also had before it the annual report for 1960 of the Technical Assistance Board (Document E/3471), a report by the Secretary-General on UN programs of technical assistance (Document E/3474), a report of the Technical Assistance Board on project programming (Document E/TAC/105), and two reports of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (Documents A/4599 and A/4774).
19 Document E/3543.
20 Document E/3473.
21 Document E/3548.
22 Document E/CN.5/346/Rev.1.
23 Document E/3542.
24 Document E/CN.5/361.
25 Document E/3362/Rev.1.
26 Documents E/3469, E/3488 and Add.1, and E/3505 and Adds.1–3 and Add.1/Corr.1.
27 Documents E/3510 and E/3515, respectively.
28 See ECOSOC Resolution 804B (XXX), August 3, 1960, and General Assembly Resolutions 1260 (XIII), November 14, 1958, and 1512 (XIV), December 12, 1960.
29 Document E/3539 and Corr.1.
30 Document E/L.911.
31 Documents E/L.916/Rev.1 and E/L.917.
32 Document E/3535 and Corr.1.
33 Document E/3464.
34 For a summary of the discussion of this item in the Third (Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural) Committee at the 16th General Assembly session, see this issue, p. 113–118.
35 Document E/3506 and Corr.1 and Add.1.
36 See General Assembly Resolutions 1388 (XIV), November 20, 1959, and 1499 (XV), December 5, 1960.
37 Document E/3537 and Corr.1.
38 Document E/3456.
39 Document E/3536.
40 Documents E/3439 and E/3525, respectively.
41 Document E/3442.
42 Document E/L.913.
43 Document E/3511 and Add.1.
44 Document E/L.914.
45 Document E/L.915.
46 Document E/L.918.
47 Document E/L.919.
48 Document E/3545.
49 Document E/3512.
50 Document E/OB/16 and Addendum.
51 Documents E/CN.7/403 and Corr.1 and E/3527.
52 Documents E/3459 and Add.1, E/3460 and Add.1, E/3461, E/3472, E/3485 and Adds.1 and 2, E/3490 and Corr.1, E/3496, E/3498 and Adds.1–3, E/3502, E/3504 and Add.1, and E/3507.
53 Documents E/3495 and Add.1, E/3518 and Corr.1, and A/4788, respectively.
54 Documents E/3551 and E/3552.
55 Document E/3528.
56 Document E/3532.
57 ECOSOC Resolution 816 (XXXI), April 27, 1961.
58 Document E/3550.
59 Document E/3540 and Corr.1 and Adds.1 and 2 and Add.2/Corr.1.
60 Document E/L.906.
61 Economic and Social Council Official Records (32d session), Supplement No. 5; see also UN Press Release TA/951, May 17, 1961. For a summary of the annual report for 1959, see International Organization, Autumn 1960 (Vol. 14, No. 4), p. 603–604CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed.
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