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- <title>
- A Development Security Council
- </title>
- <article>
- <hdr>
- Human Development Report 1992
- A Development Security Council
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>Rationale
- </p>
- <p>-- A manageable forum for global policy coordination, trusted by
- both industrial and developing countries.
- </p>
- <p>Mandate
- </p>
- <p>-- To design a global policy framework in all key economic and
- social areas, including food security, ecological security,
- development assistance, humanitarian assistance, debt,
- commodity price stabilization, technology transfers, drug
- controls, women's issues, children's issues, and human
- development.
- </p>
- <p>-- To prepare a global budget of development resource flows for
- a revolving five-year period, to identify shortfalls between
- global development potential and resource availability, and to
- identify policies and programs to meet these shortfalls.
- </p>
- <p>-- To provide a policy coordination framework for the smooth
- functioning of international development and financial
- institutions.
- </p>
- <p>Composition
- </p>
- <p>-- A Council of 22 country members, 11 permanent and 11 on the
- basis of rotational election. The Council membership to be
- chosen in such criteria as GNP, population, share of
- international trade, strategic political importance and
- considerations of regional balance. The 11 permanent members
- may include China, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, the UK, and
- the US. These could be joined by the most populous country in
- each developing region: India, Brazil, Nigeria and Egypt. The
- 11 rotating members can be chosen to represent various regional
- and economic social groupings.
- </p>
- <p>Secretariat
- </p>
- <p>-- A professional secretariat, under the direct guidance of the
- UN Secretary General. The secretariat will propose various
- policy options for discussion by the Council.
- </p>
- <p>Source: United Nations Development Programme
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- </body>
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