Recognizes that the regional commissions have important contributions to make to the deliberations of the Council, and that the regional perspectives of development should further enrich the Council's debate on economic and social development; recommends that the Council, at its resumed substantive session of 1996, consider placing the agenda item on regional cooperation at the beginning of the general segment of the substantive session of the Council; decides to incorporate in the existing format for this agenda item informal briefings and dialogue between the executive secretaries and the Council along the lines of the informative briefing held on the margins of the substantive session of 1996.

Adopted without vote, 52nd meeting

Adopted at the 52nd plenary meeting, 26 July 1996.
In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1996, New York, 25 Jan. and 6-9 Feb. 1996; resumed organizational session for 1996, New York, 2 Apr. and 2-3 May 1996; substantive session of 1996, New York, 24 June-26 July 1996; resumed substantive session of 1996, New York, 10 Oct. and 13-14 and 20 Nov. 1996 - E/1996/96 - p. 74-75 - (ESCOR, 1996, Suppl. no. 1).