PROVISIONAL AGENDA AND ANNOTATIONS

TD United Nations Conference Trade UNITED NATIONS Distr. GENERAL TD//WP/113 22 December 1998 Development Original : ENGLISH TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT BOARD Working Party Medium-term Plan Programme Budget - session Geneva, 25 January 1999 Item 2 provisional agenda PROVISIONAL AGENDA AND ANNOTATIONS . PROVISIONAL AGENDA 1. Election officers 2. Adoption agenda organization work 3. Review work programme: () Draft programme budget biennium 2000-2001 () Implementation publications policy 4. Report Chairman Working Party - session informal consultations 5. Provisional agenda -fourth session Working Party 6. business 7. Adoption report Working Party Trade Development Board. GE.98-52909 TD//WP/113 page 2 II. ANNOTATIONS TO THE PROVISIONAL AGENDA Item 1 - Election officers 1. accordance rule 63 rules procedure Trade Development Board, Working Party elect officers. accordance cycle rotation - session Working Party, Chairman - session representative States members List Vice-Chairman-cum-Rapporteur representative States members list (Asian Group). Item 2 - Adoption agenda organization work 2. provisional agenda - session Working Party section . note organization work session circulated opening meeting. TD//WP/113 Provisional agenda annotations Item 3 - Review work programme: () Draft programme budget biennium 2000-2001 3. Working Party -paper UNCTAD’ draft work programme 2000-2001 biennium prepared accordance instructions Secretary-General United Nations, results ante survey proposed publications 2000-2001 biennium conducted member States autumn 1998. 4. discussion programme managers proposed work programme biennium 2000-2001, Working Party briefed informally programme managers publications planned respective areas work 1999, review outcome -depth readership surveys selected publications conducted programme managers 1998 line Board decision 449 (EX-17) 8 1998. () Implementation publications policy 5. Working Party progress report implementation publications policy line Board decision 449 (EX-17) 8 1998. TD//WP/113 page 3 Item 4 - Report Chairman Working Party - session informal consultations 6. Board, nineteenth executive session, note oral report Chairman Working Party part - session "agreed recommendation convene consultations address outstanding issues relating partial cost recovery selected UNCTAD technical cooperation programmes, rolling -year technical cooperation plan 1999-2001, -depth evaluation Trade Point programme. consultations convened 14-15 January 1999, result - session Working Party rescheduled 25-29 January 1999. twentieth executive session Board held 5 February 1999." 7. light , outcome informal consultations Working Party. Item 5 - Provisional agenda -fourth session Working Party 8. UNCTAD secretariat submit Working Party consideration draft provisional agenda - session. Item 6 - business Item 7 - Adoption report Working Party Trade Development Board 9. final report compiled authority Vice-Chairman- cum-Rapporteur, account proceedings final (closing) plenary meeting, submission Trade Development Board.