Commission on Science and Technology for Development 10th Session

Approval of Item 4.
Election of the chairperson (Delegate from Malasya) and 5 vice chairpersons (Chile, Lithuania, Lesotho and Austria).
Adoption of Item 6: Provisional Agenda and documentation for the eleventh session of the Commission is approved and recommended to the ECOSOC, remarks made by Cuba will be put in the final report.
Item 7: Adoption of the report of the Commission on its tenth session: Regarding paragrapgh 15 the US accept it if it includes implicitly new businesses who have not participated in previous commissions. The Rapporteur A. Ventura from Jamaica says the language of this pargrapgh is in line with relevant ECOSOC resolutions. Item is approved.
Concluding remarks: Secretary General of UNCTAD, SG of ITU: Makes reference to regional inititaives like the asia initiative for broadband access, says the commission is useful for implementing the WSIS, even though he fears that the multiformat programm (a theme a year) will create too many resolutions and thus slow innecessarly the implementation process.

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