Record of the sixty-third session of the Economic and Social Council

Abstract

The paper deals about the floor in the general debate on international economic and social policy with emphasis on the regional and sect oral levels. In citing the report of' the-Secretary-General- on long-term trends in the economic development of the regions of the world-,'they stressed the-precarious nature of the world economic situation and its - implications for the development of the countries of the third_ world, the growing inter dependence of all the. countries in the world and the poor performance of the African countries in their application of the International Development Strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade.