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🇺🇳 June 26 marks 81 years since the establishment of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (#ECOSOC). The Inaugural Session of ECOSOC – one of the six principal organs of the United Nations – convened in January-February 1946.
The Council stands as the central multilateral platform of the UN for the discussion of a wide range of international matters of socioeconomic, scientific, technical, and environmental significance.
🌐 ECOSOC’s remit encompasses such crucial spheres of international collaboration as:
• humanitarian assistance
• the advancement of global development
• narrowing the technological divide between developed and developing nations
• public health
• the upholding of human rights
• cooperation in the realms of culture and education
• environmental protection
The Council authorises the preparation of studies and reports, formulates pertinent recommendations, and examines the implementation of decisions arising from major UN thematic conferences.
As a preeminent coordinating body, the Council reviews the reports submitted by its regional and functional commissions, as well as by UN programmes and funds and the specialised agencies within its system.
🤝 It engages with non-governmental organisations worldwide: more than 6,000 NGOs, including approximately 70 Russian organisations, possess consultative status with ECOSOC, thereby enabling their participation in the Council’s work and that of its subsidiary bodies. Since 2012, the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development has been convened under the auspices of the Council, within the framework of which 190 member states, including Russia, have already delivered voluntary national reviews detailing their progress towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Since ECOSOC’s inception, its membership has tripled and today comprises 54 member states, elected by the UN General Assembly for a three-year term. On June 4, 2025, following an intensely competitive election, Russia was re-elected to the Council for the 2026-2028 period.
Our country has played an active and constructive role in ECOSOC’s endeavours since its very foundation. Over decades of membership, Russia has amassed significant experience in utilising this UN platform to foster progressive socioeconomic development on a global scale.
🇷🇺 Russia reaffirms its commitment to contributing to the enhancement of international efforts within ECOSOC, the depoliticisation of its work, the strengthening of the intergovernmental and multilateral nature of this UN body’s activities, as well as to the advancement of Russia’s economic accomplishments on the world stage.
The Council stands as the central multilateral platform of the UN for the discussion of a wide range of international matters of socioeconomic, scientific, technical, and environmental significance.
🌐 ECOSOC’s remit encompasses such crucial spheres of international collaboration as:
• humanitarian assistance
• the advancement of global development
• narrowing the technological divide between developed and developing nations
• public health
• the upholding of human rights
• cooperation in the realms of culture and education
• environmental protection
The Council authorises the preparation of studies and reports, formulates pertinent recommendations, and examines the implementation of decisions arising from major UN thematic conferences.
As a preeminent coordinating body, the Council reviews the reports submitted by its regional and functional commissions, as well as by UN programmes and funds and the specialised agencies within its system.
🤝 It engages with non-governmental organisations worldwide: more than 6,000 NGOs, including approximately 70 Russian organisations, possess consultative status with ECOSOC, thereby enabling their participation in the Council’s work and that of its subsidiary bodies. Since 2012, the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development has been convened under the auspices of the Council, within the framework of which 190 member states, including Russia, have already delivered voluntary national reviews detailing their progress towards the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Since ECOSOC’s inception, its membership has tripled and today comprises 54 member states, elected by the UN General Assembly for a three-year term. On June 4, 2025, following an intensely competitive election, Russia was re-elected to the Council for the 2026-2028 period.
Our country has played an active and constructive role in ECOSOC’s endeavours since its very foundation. Over decades of membership, Russia has amassed significant experience in utilising this UN platform to foster progressive socioeconomic development on a global scale.
🇷🇺 Russia reaffirms its commitment to contributing to the enhancement of international efforts within ECOSOC, the depoliticisation of its work, the strengthening of the intergovernmental and multilateral nature of this UN body’s activities, as well as to the advancement of Russia’s economic accomplishments on the world stage.
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