The Trade and Development Board decides that, with regard to its sixty-seventh session, the election of the President of the Trade and Development Board and other officers (item 1 (a)), as well as the adoption of the provisional agenda (item 1 (b)), will be undertaken ahead of the first segment of the session and in accordance with the relevant modalities for elections under silence procedure, as adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in the context of the current coronavirus disease of 2019 (COVID-19) emergency.
The first segment of the sixty-seventh session of the Board will take place from 2 to 3 July 2020 in the form of a formal virtual meeting, with interpretation in the six official languages of the United Nations. The agenda items to be considered will include:
- Item Annual report of the Secretary-General;
- Item Actions carried out and/or planned by UNCTAD to support member States in the recovery of trade and industries after overcoming the pandemic;
- Other items from the agenda may be added, time
A programme for the first segment will be circulated in due course, which will include the agenda items identified above, as well as other items that could be taken up during the first segment if time permits.