PROVISIONAL AGENDA

l. Election of officers.

2. Adoption of the agenda and organization of the work of the twenty-seventh session.

3. The fiscal covenant: strengths, weaknesses, challenges.

4. Meetings of subsidiary bodies and regional meetings sponsored by ECLAC in preparation for United Nations world conferences: conclusions and recommendations. 

5. Other activities of the secretariat of the ECLAC system since the twenty-sixth session and programme of work for the biennium 2000-2001:

(a) ECLAC; 

(b) Follow-up to the World Summit for Social Development; 

(c) Follow-up to the Fourth World Conference on Women and the sixth session of the Regional Conference on the Integration of Women into the Social and Economic Development of Latin America and the Caribbean; 

(d) Latin American Demographic Centre (CELADE); 

(e) Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning (ILPES).

6. Calendar of conferences for the period 1998-2000.

7. Reform of the United Nations and its impact on ECLAC.

8. Some recent resolutions and decisions adopted by United Nations organs which should be brought to the attention of the Commission.

9. Follow-up to the Latin American and Caribbean Regional Plan of Action on Population and Development.

10. Cooperation among developing countries and regions.

ll. Caribbean Development and Cooperation Committee (CDCC).

12. Fiftieth anniversary of ECLAC.

13. Other matters.

14. Consideration and adoption of the resolutions of the twenty-seventh session.

Annoted Provisional Agenda And Organization Of The Twenty-Seventh Session