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ORGANIZATIONAL SESSION

The Preparatory Committee (PrepCom) for the WSSD held its organizational session in New York from 12-16 April 1993. Amb. Juan Somav¡a (Chile) was elected Chair and representatives from the following nine countries were elected to the Bureau as Vice- Chairs: Australia, Cameroon, India, Indonesia, Latvia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Poland and Zimbabwe. Denmark, the host country, serves as an ex officio member of the Bureau and as a Vice-Chair. The PrepCom also adopted decisions on: intersessional meetings of the Bureau; modalities for the participation of NGOs; national preparations for the WSSD; mobilization of resources for the WSSD Trust Fund; the UN Department of Public Information"s (DPI) plans to launch a public information programme on the issues and objectives of the Summit; the organization of work, including the tasks of the PrepCom, a timetable and level of representation; expert group meetings; the dates for the Summit and the PrepCom sessions; and the provisional agenda for the first session of the PrepCom.