Yearbook of the United Nations, 2000. Part 3, Economic and social questions. Chapter 5, Regional economic and social activities

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In 2000, the five regional commissions continued to provide technical cooperation, including advisory services, to their member States, promote programmes and projects, and provide training to enhance national capacity-building in various sectors. Three of them held regular sessions during the year: the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE), the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC). The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) did not meet in 2000; both were scheduled to meet in May 2001. The regional commissions organized follow-up activities to the UN conferences and summits held in the 1990s and held regional meetings in preparation for the General Assembly's special sessions on women and on social development,as well as for future international conferences. IN December, the Assembly invited the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development to elaborate a programme for improving the efficiency of the transit environment of the newly independent and developing landlocked States in Central Asia and their transit developing neighbours. The Economic and Social Council established the Statistical Conference of the Americas of ECLAC, proclaimed the years 2000-2009 as the Decade of Greater Mekong Subregion Development Cooperation, and endorsed the Delhi Declaration on Space Technology Applications in Asia and the Pacific for Improved Quality of Life in the New Millennium and the Strategy and Action Plan on Space Technology Applications for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific for the New Millennium. It also amended the terms of reference of ESCAP to include and admit Georgia as a member