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The Economic Commission for Europe
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European NAvigator. Etienne Deschamps. Translated by the CVCE.
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economic cooperation, Ecosoc, UN specialist institutions
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HISTORICAL EVENTS >> 1945–1949 The pioneering phase >> Economic cooperation >> The Economic Commission for Europe
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The Economic Commission for Europe
On 11 December 1946, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a resolution in principle to support the creation of an Economic Commission in order to help the war-torn countries of Europe. On 28 March 1947, the UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) established the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE). Placed under the management of the Swedish economist Karl Gunnar Myrdal, the ECE was a subsidiary body of the United Nations and one of its regional economic commissions. It was the only post-war European organisation to bring together all the countries located on the European continent, in addition to the United States as financial backer. The Economic Commission could not take any decision concerning a member country without the consent of the national government. Its representatives came from the 17 European UN members: Belgium, Belarus, Denmark, France, Greece, Iceland, Luxembourg, Norway, the Netherlands, Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, USSR and Yugoslavia, as well as the United States. The ECE held its first session from 2-14 May 1947 at the organisation's headquarters in Geneva. It was the de facto successor of the European Economic Assistance Committee, the European Coal Commission and the European Central Inland Transport Organisation, which were created as (...) Read more in ENA |
| See also |
Gunnar Myrdal, Twenty Years of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
Dirk Stikker, Men of Responsibility
Statement by William J. Casey (5 April 1973)
Document drawn up at the Bonn Conference on Economic Cooperation in Europe (11 April 1990)
Communiqué issued after the ministerial meeting of the EFTA Council in Vienna (24 May 1965)
Convention for European Economic Cooperation (Paris, 16 April 1948)
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