UN General Assembly
1996

and of the agreements that emerged from Rio de Janeiro, Vienna, Cairo, Copenhagen, Beijing and Istanbul. The first steps have now been taken within the various bodies of the system, particularly in the Economic and Social Council and its functional commissions. It is encouraging that the Economic and Social Council bodies dealing with sustainable development, women, social development and population have adopted multi-year agendas as a follow-up to the conferences. Similarly, the agreements reached at the World Summit for Social Development include the decision to hold a special session of this Assembly in the year 2000 to assess the implementation of the agreements. In this connection, Chile wishes to propose the establishment of a working group of this Assembly that, with that special session as its basis, can provide follow- up to the six conferences, taking into account the Agenda for Development, so that in the year 2000 the General 7 General Assembly 11th plenary meeting Fifty-first session 26 September 1996 Assembly can take up a very wide-ranging and coordinated assessment of the implementation of the commitments of