Abstract

The eleventh session of the Economic and Social Council opened in Geneva on July 9 and was expected to continue until mid-August. Among the recurring items on the Council's agenda were eleven reports from its subsidiary bodies and nine reports from the specialized agencies. Other topics which ECOSOC was to consider included the problems of economic development and social progress of the Italian colonies, the maintenance of full employment, technical assistance for economic development including methods of financing economic development, forced labor and trade union rights, higher education in the trust territories in Africa, and the problem of refugees and stateless persons. In the procedural field, the Council was to discuss the organization of the Economic and Employment Commission and its two subcommissions, consultative arrangements with non-governmental organizations and the calendar of conferences for 1951; elect new members to eight of its functional commissions: and confirm the membership of its commissions.

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