Once the Working Party concluded its review , the Secretary-General of UNCTAD would transmit the results to Headquarters in New York so that the Secretary-General of the UN could take them into account in finalizing his proposal to the General Assembly . For the first time , in a parallel process , all the work programmes in the economic and social sector of the UN , including UNCTAD 's , were being discussed within the UN Secretary-General 's Executive Committee on Economic and Social Affairs ( EC-ESA ) , in line with the UN Secretary-General 's reform proposal .