• Link to  Second Committee website
• A/C.2/60/L.1 Organization of Work of the Second Committee
• Special Events (tentative programme)
• Opening statement to the Second Committee by Mr. José Antonio Ocampo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, 3 October 2005

Second Committee Reports prepared by the Office of ECOSOC Support and Coordination:

• A/60/322 (Advanced unedited): Item 54 (a): Building Institutions for Achieving the Development Goals and Integrating in the Global Economy, Report of the Secretary-General
• A/60/318 (Advanced unedited): Item 56 (c): Human Resources Development – Report of the Secretary-General
• A/60/ …A | C | E | F | R | S: Item 48  preliminary list: The role of the Economic and Social Council in the integrated and coordinated Implementation of the outcomes of and follow-up to major United Nations Conferences and summits, in light of General Assembly resolution 50/227, 52/12B and 57/270B - Report of the Secretary-General

59^th Session

• Opening statement to the Second Committee by Mr. José Antonio Ocampo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, 4 October 2004
• Chairman’ Summary of the general debate of the Second Committee 59th session of the General Assembly, 4-6 October 2004
• A/C.2/59/1  Allocation of Items of the Second Committee A | C | E | F | R | S
• List of documents and overall information

Second Committee Events:

• "Development and Conflict" by Paul Collier, Centre for the Study of African Economies, Department of Economics, Oxford University 1 October 2004
• "Serving the Bottom of the Pyramid: Eradicating Poverty through profits", by C.K. Prahalad, University of Michigan Business School 15 October
• "Forging Coherence towards the Achievement of the MDGs in the context of Globalization and Interdependence" 29 October 2004:
  1. Prof. Amartya Sen, Harvard University
  2. Mr. Martin Wolf, Financial Times

58^th Session

• Opening statement to the Second Committee by
  Mr. José Antonio Ocampo, Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs,
  on 6 October 2003
• A/C.2/58/1 Allocation of Items to the Second Committee A | C | E | F | R | S
• List of documents and overall information
• General Assembly general debate (23-26 September, 29 September - 3 October): Summaries on economic and social issues

Side Events

• Tentative List
• Panel discussion on Corporate responsibility, 10 October 2003
• Panel discussion on Microcredit, poverty eradication
  and the empowerment of women, 23 October 2003

57^th Session

• Statement to the Second Committee by Mr. Nitin Desai - Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs on 30 September 2002
• A/C.2/57/1 Allocation of Items to the Second Committee
• List of documents and overall information

56^th Session

• Statement to the Second Committee by Mr. Nitin Desai - Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs on 1 October 2001
• A/C.2/56/1 Allocation of Items to the Second Committee
• List of documents and overall information

• Statement to the Second Committee by Mr. Nitin Desai - Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs on 3 October 2000
• A/C.2/55/1 Allocation of Items to the Second Committee
• List of documents and overall information 

54^th Session

• A/C.2/54/1 Allocation of Items to the Second Committee
• List of documents and overall information

53^rd Session

• Statement to the Second Committee by Mr. Nitin Desai - Under-Secretary General for Economic and Social Affairs on 6 October 1998
• A/C.2/53/1 Allocation of Items to the Second Committee
• List of documents and overall information

52^nd Session

• A/C.2/52/1 Allocation of Items to the Second Committee
• Statement by Mr.Nitin Desai, USG/DESA, to the Second Committee on 13 October 1997
• List of documents and overall information

51^st Session

• A/C.2/51/1 Allocation of Items to the Second Committee
• A/C.2/51/1 Decisions Taken by GA re. Allocation of Items to 2nd Cttee
• A/C.2/51/2 Rational Utilization of Conference-Servicing Resources
• A/C.2/51/3 Programme Planning
• A/C.2/51/4 Declaration by Ministerial Meeting of Least Developed Countries
• A/C.2/51/5 Harare Declaration on Solar Energy and Sustainable Development
• A/C.2/51/6 Ltr. from Iraq on the Environment after the 30-Power Aggression
• A/C.2/51/7 Report of Meeting on Trade Policy in Latin America and the Caribbean
• A/C.2/51/8 Report of Workshop on Financial Mechanisms and Sources of Finance for Sustainable Forestry
• A/C.2/51/9 Ltr.from Chairman 5th Committee re.Budgetary and Administrative Matters