The fifty-first session of the Working Party on the Medium-term Plan and the Programme Budget will be held from 1 to 5 September 2008. It will convene at 10 a.m. on Monday 1 September, in room XXVI of the Palais des Nations, Geneva.
The provisional agenda for the session, together with the secretariat´s annotations thereto, are contained in document TD/B/WP/201.
Members of the Working Party are requested to submit to the UNCTAD secretariat, by 25 August 2008, the names of their representatives, alternate representatives and advisers who will participate in the session.
Other States members of UNCTAD, United Nations bodies and programmes, specialized agencies and other intergovernmental bodies that may wish to participate in the session as observers are also requested to inform the UNCTAD secretariat, by 25 August 2008, of the names of their representatives.
All communications concerning representation should be sent to the UNCTAD secretariat, Intergovernmental Affairs and Outreach Service, Palais des Nations, CH-1211 Geneva 10 (fax: +41(0)22 917 0214; e-mail: meetings@unctad.org.
(signed)
Supachai Panitchpakdi
Secretary-General of UNCTAD
18 July 2008
Membership of the Working Party for the Medium-term Plan and the Programme Budget for 2008
At its 1013th plenary meeting, on 11 October 2007, the Board approved the membership of the Working Party for 2008, as follows: