Many delegations participated in the structured discussion during the second phase.

After recalling the lively high level discussion about the future of the organization, he welcomed the reform debate and initiatives to further strengthen OSCE.

Debate over the role of the United Nations and its future is a sign of its continued engagement with the issues of our day.

Draft sui generis instruments are under active discussion within WIPO.

As the first item preceding the opening of the general debate, the Secretary General will present his report on the work of the Organization.

An important part of this debate has revolved around the socio economic and operational activities of the organization.

9. The Meeting had before it the following working papers submitted by the Secretariat, in order to facilitate structured discussions during the Meeting

Our earnest hope for the future health of the Organization is that this debate is being heard.

Hence, this structured debate could serve as an excellent bridge between the first and third phases.

This debate also afforded us an opportunity for a serious analysis of the Organization apos s present financial difficulties, and we can say, like the Secretary General, that this is a financial crisis for the Organization.

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Further extensive debate has been going on for the past seven months within the United Nations, as well as outside the Organization in academic and political circles.

But we would ask you to expand the discussion so as to properly define the role that the Organization should play in world development.

As some delegations have mentioned, the results of the structured discussion of specific items were not as satisfactory or as productive as we had anticipated.

The organization that has prepared the present discussion paper, the International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the Tropical Forests (IAITPTF), was founded in Penang, Malaysia in 1992.

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We are uncertain that that proposal addresses the various controversial issues concerning human rights in the Organization, and we look forward to discussing it further.

1. Mr. POPESCU (Romania) said that the debate on questions relating to information was all the more timely in the light of the acute problems confronting the United Nations with regard to its prestige and its work.

In his statement to the General Assembly during the general debate, Canada apos s Minister of Foreign Affairs stated emphatically that the elimination of duplication of effort had to be a priority for the Organization.

Firstly, we think that had the structured discussion been set out in detail, the Committee could have considered, within the topic of a comprehensive test ban treaty, questions such as the scope of the ban, the structure and functioning of the implementing organization and the composition of its executive council.

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