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Secondly, IUCN endorsed the view that sustainable development must be reflected and fully integrated in the programmes of United Nations organizations, the Bretton Woods institutions and WTO.

In that connection it welcomed the work done by the United Nations on the integration and coordination of the outcomes of the major economic and social conferences and urged the Organization to continue and to step up its efforts to enhance the communication, collaboration and coherence between all the bodies concerned with trade and sustainable development.

IUCN requested the States Members of the United Nations to become members of WTO as well, to raise environmental issues in the trade forums and, in particular, to try to find a constructive solution to the dispute about the observer status of the international environmental organizations, in order to ensure that such issues were given attention in the deliberations of WTO.

Thirdly, IUCN welcomed the continuing attention given by UNCTAD to the need to build up trade and development capacities and encouraged it in its efforts to ensure that the needs of the developing countries and the function of organizations of civil society were taken into account when it came to technical assistance and capacity-building in connection with trade and the environment.

IUCN was working for a just world in which nature was valued and conserved; it was committed to ensuring that trade contributed to the attainment of that goal.

The meeting rose at 4.35 p.m.

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Agenda

The situation in Africa

Briefing by the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator

The meeting was called to order at 10.20 a.m.

The agenda was adopted.

The President: In accordance with the understanding reached in the Council's prior consultations, and in the absence of objection, I shall take it that the Security Council agrees to extend an invitation under rule 39 of its provisional rules of procedure to Mr. Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

I invite Mr. Egeland to take a seat at the Council table.

The Security Council will now begin its consideration of the item on its agenda.

The Council is meeting in accordance with the understanding reached in its prior consultations.

At this meeting the Security Council will hear a briefing my Mr. Jan Egeland, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator.

There have not yet been any requests from representatives of interested countries to be invited to take part in this discussion.

Moreover, as there is no list of speakers for this meeting, I would invite Council members who wish to take the floor to so indicate to the Secretariat as from now.

I now give the floor to Mr. Egeland.

Mr. Egeland: This is a very important opportunity for us to brief the Council on several major challenges that the humanitarian community faces in Africa at the moment, all of which have regional implications.

I will start with what continues to be the largest humanitarian operation in the world — the crisis in Darfur — as well as with its impact on neighbouring Chad.