The UN General Assembly has adopted a broad resolution on strengthening the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC).

In addition to recognizing the need for a more efficient ECOSOC as a principal body for coordination, policy review and recommendations on economic and social development issues, the resolution also recalls ECOSOC’s role in overseeing system-wide coordination of economic, social and environmental aspects of UN policies and programmes aimed at promoting sustainable development. The text reaffirms that the Commission on Sustainable Development should continue to be the high-level body responsible for sustainable development within the UN system.
During consultations, the UN General Assembly’s Second Committee (Economic and Financial) approved a draft resolution that urged the full implementation of commitments contained in the Mauritius Strategy on the Sustainable Development of Small Island Developing States (SIDS). The text, inter alia, calls for UN agencies to mainstream the Mauritius Strategy in their work programmes and to establish a SIDS focal point within their respective secretariats. It also requests the SIDS unit in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs to be sufficiently and sustainably staffed to take on its many mandated functions.
Links to further information
UN press release, 20 November 2006
UN press release, 17 November 2006