Word: ecosoc
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...United Nations Conference on Trade and Development) required bizarre behind-the-scenes maneuvering. Last week the Assembly's 114 delegates found themselves stealthily marking unofficial secret ballots in a tiny alcove off the vast Assembly Hall to decide whether Gabon or Guinea would fill the final seat of ECOSOC (the six-member Economic and Social Council...
...world's population will be more than 3 billion, reported the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) last week...
...rate of population growth is still rising. ECOSOC estimates that it will soon reach 2% a year, or double the rate of the years just before World War II. This means a population increase of roughly 50 million a year. At this rate, the world will have 4 billion people...
...attempted to coerce support for the Philippines. After the ninth ballot, on October 19, Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., moved to postpone the Security Council election and procede to elections for the Economic and Social Council. His tactic was obvious and Russia objected. Yugoslavia was also a candidate for ECOSOC, and according to an unwritten rule, if elected, it could not then serve on the Security Council. Despite objections, however, the Assembly voted, and Yugoslavia was elected with U.S. support. But lined up against the United States were Britain and the Commonwealth countries, the three Scandinavian states, the Benelux countries...
...understandable why you ridicule the Justice's advocacy of land reform in Asia, while you praise the land-reform program adopted by ECOSOC upon motion...