Trust fund to enhance participation of developing countries` experts in UNCTAD meetings

The Trade and Development Board, having received a progress report under item 3 of its agenda on the trust fund to enhance the participation of developing countries´ experts in UNCTAD meetings in accordance with the decision of the forty-fourth session of the Board, decides that:

1. Informal consultations under the authority of the President of the Board shall be held on the operational modalities of the trust fund to enhance participation of developing countries´ experts in UNCTAD meetings in accordance with paragraph 114 of "A Partnership for Growth and Development", with a view to enabling the Secretary-General of UNCTAD to modify the operational modalities of the Trust Fund to include inter alia two windows, one for earmarked and one for non-earmarked contributions;
2. The President of the Trade and Development Board is requested to complete these informal consultations by 3 July 1998 so that the operational modalities can be endorsed by the Trade and Development Board at its eighteenth executive session on 10 July 1998.

893^rd plenary meeting
8 May 1998