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HIGH-LEVEL ADVISORY BOARD
: During its resumed organizational
session, ECOSOC will also discuss the High-Level Advisory Board.
The Secretary-General, in his report on the matter to ECOSOC
(E/1993/15) stated his intention to set up this Board with 15 to 25
"internationally recognized personalities to be appointed by him in
their personal capacity." It is his idea that the Board would meet
for several days before each session of the CSD to review policy
papers presented by the UN Secretariat related to the thematic work
of the upcoming session. This group would also bring to the
attention of the Secretary-General and the CSD "emerging problems
related to sustainable development and possible ways and means for
resolving them." The report goes on to suggest that the
Secretary-General may establish a roster of experts maintained by
the DPCSD (of which the Committee for Development Planning might be
a sub-set) from which the Secretariat could organize ad-hoc working
groups around the themes of the session that would submit papers to
the High-Level Advisory Board and the CSD.