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United Nations Economic and Social Council

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ECOSOC turns 70

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United Nations: ECOSOC high-level meeting underway

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Global solutions to global challenges: ECOSOC Partnership Forum

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Dear World: the UN ECOSOC Youth Forum

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What is ECOSOC?

The United Nations Economic and Social Council is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, responsible for coordinating the economic, social, and related work of 15 UN specialized agencies, their functional commissions and five regional commissions. The ECOSOC has 54 members. The General Assembly selects 18 new members for ECOSOC each year for the term of 3 years with a provision that a retiring member can be re-elected. It holds one seven-week session each year in July, and since 1998, it has also held an annual meeting in April with finance ministers heading key committees of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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    • Members 

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    • Disbanded 

    • Regional commissions 

    • Standing committees 

    • Expert bodies 

    • Specialised agencies 

    • "World Economic and Social Survey 2011: The Great Green Technological Transformation" 

    • Reform of the Economic and Social Council 

    • Chamber design