Decides to consider at its organizational session for 1990 the establishment, on a provisional basis, of a multi-year work programme identifying major policy themes for in-depth consideration each year; decides that the President of the Council and other members of the Bureau should continually monitor, with the assistance of the Secretariat, the status of the preparation of documentation, and should propose appropriate measures to the Council; requests the General Assembly, with the assistance of the Committee on Conferences, to approve and adjust the calendar of conferences and meetings for 1990 and 1991; decides that general discussion on international economic and social policy, including regional and sectoral developments, should not exceed 4 days; decides that the sessional committees shall not begin their substantive work until the conclusion of the general discussion.

Adopted without vote, 37th meeting

Adopted at the 37th plenary meeting, 28 July 1989.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the Economic and Social Council at its 2nd regular session of 1989, Geneva, 5-28 July 1989. - E/1989/INF/10. - 29 Aug. 1989. - p. 55-59. - Issued in ESCOR, 1989, Suppl. no. 1A.