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Distr-: GENERAL E/ECA/CM-17/INF-5 15 April 1991
UNITED NATIONS Original: ENGLISH
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL
ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA Twelfth meeting of the Technical Twenty-sixth session of the
Preparatory committee of the Commission/seventeenth
Whole meeting of the Conference of
Ministers
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Addis Ababa, Ethiopia 29 April - 7 May 1991 9-13 May 1991
FORMAT OF THE REPORTS OF THE MEETINGS OF THE TECHNICAL PREPARATORY COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE AND THE EGA
CONFERENCE OF MINISTERS RESPONSIBLE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING
Note bv the secretariat
Xn order to make the reports of the meetings of the Technical Preparatory Committee of the Whole (TEPCOW) and the ECA Conference of Ministers more succinct and closer to the format now being used by the main subsidiary organs and bodies of the General Assembly, the following changes will be introduced in the format of the reports beginning with the twelfth meeting of TEPCOW and the twenty~sixth session of the Commission/seventeenth meeting of the Conference of Ministers:
1) The opening paragraph of the report on each substantive agenda item will cite the reference symbol(s) of the document(s) considered by the meeting under the particular item*
2) There will follow a summation of the issue in the name of the meeting and of the decisions which the meeting saw as having to be taken as would have been defined by the contents of the documents considered, the presentation by the secretariat, and by all other substantive points made during the deliberations.
3) The following paragraphs will list the decisions taken by the meeting. No countries would be mentioned by name.
4) Any dissenting views and reservations will be noted under the country concerned.
5) The observations of observer countries and organizations will be incorporated in the summation of issues in (1) above. They will not be noted individually unless they have separate but direct implications for the Work of the ECA secretariat.
6) The opening addressed to the meetings, as well as official statements made during the General Debate at the Conference of Ministers will continue to be summarized but in a much more abridged form than hitherto.
The above changes are without prejudice to any delegation wishing to do so, to make available to the meetings the full text of any statement made during the discussions. The responsibility for the processing and distribution of such texts is, however, that of the delegation concerned and not the secretariat.
