UNDP seeking blueprint through the year 2000.

• Position: United Nations Development Programme

A high-powered group of Ministers, plenipotentiaries and top-level development policy and decision makers from all over the world will meet at UN Headquarters for three days in june, to debate and decide what role the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will play in the last decade of the century

The proposed blueprint for UNDP in the 1990s will be hammered out in a series of informal meetings between March and May, when it is expected to be made public. The go-ahead was given by UNDP's Governing Council at a special three-day session in New York, in February. The high-level plenary 12-14 June) will be part of the Council's 36th regular session, scheduled from 5 to 30 june.

With some 5,000 projects worth about $7.5 billion in more than 150 developing countries and territories, UNDP is the United Nations main development aid operation. It is also the world's largest multilateral channel for technical and pre-investment assistance.

Other decisions taken at the special session had to do with continuing consultations on a strategy to combat the desert locust plague, UNDP funding for the transport and communications decades in Africa and Asia, and a series of internal organizational matters.

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