The Executive Board meets twice a year to examine the implementation of the programme adopted by the General Conference which meets every two years.

UNESCO: OFFICE IN VENICE

The Executive Board has a rotating membership of 58 Member States who meet twice a year to oversee the implementation of the Programme and Budget of UNESCO, as adopted by the General Conference.

UNESCO: THEMES

The programme is due to be adopted by the government on January 27th, but already it is in danger of being watered down, after opposition from trade unions and others.

ECONOMIST: Polish politics

Other resolutions adopted unanimously by the Assembly dealt with special subjects relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2008-2009, among them a text dealing with the budget of the Special Envoy of the Secretary-General for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1559 (2004), on the withdrawal of troops from Lebanon, whose narrative and logical framework had been newly revised.

UN: General Assembly

"Iraq will deal with Resolution 1409 adopted by the Security Council with regard to renewing the oil-for-food programme fro six months, " Iraqi Information Minister Mohammad Said al-Sahhaf said in a statement carried by the official INA news agency.

BBC: Iraq accepts oil-for-food extension

At that Conference, the international community unanimously adopted the Substantial New Programme of Action for the 1980s for the Least Developed Countries, containing guidelines for domestic action by the LDCs, which were to be complemented by international support measures.

UN: [21 Jul 2000] DEV/2253 : LAYING GROUNDWORK FOR THIRD UN CONFERENCE ON LEAST DEVELOPED COUNTRIES, PREPARATORY COMMITTEE TO MEET AT HEADQUARTERS, 24 - 28 JULY