text: UNITED NATIONS • UN LIBRARY JUL 1 , 1990 Econ.mlc and S~ru:ocatknoN First regular session of 1990 PROVISIONAL For participants only E/1990/SR.S 3 May 1990 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH PROVISIONAL SUMMARY RECORD OF THE 5th MEETING Held at Headquarters, New York, on Tuesday, 1 May 1990, at 10.30 a.m. President: Mr. GHAREKHAN (India) CONTENTS Adoption of the agenda and other organizational matters Corrections to this record should be submitted in one of the working languages. They should be set forth in a memorandum and also incorporated in a copy of the record. They should be sent within one week of the date of this document to the Chief;, Official Records Editing Section, Department of Conference Services, room DC2-750, 2 United Nations Plaza. 90-55572 2490S (E) 1 ••• E E/1990/SR.S English Page 2 The meeting was called to order at 10,45 a.m. ADOPTION OF THE AGENDA AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL MATTERS (E/1990/23, annex V, E/1990/30 and Corr.1, 45, 63 and 64; E/1990/L.18/Rev.1 and L.l9) Mr. KITCHKAILO (Observer for the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic) referred to the letter dated 26 April 1990 from the Permanent Representatives of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General (E/1990/64), in which the three Governments requested the inclusion of an additional item, entitled "International co-operation in the elimination of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant", in the agenda of the first regular session of 1990 of the Economic and Social Council. He hoped that the members of the Council would respond positively to that request. In the four years since the accident, the State bodies of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the Byelorussian SSR and the Ukrainian SSR had made 
analysis: The text appears to be discussing a meeting of the Economic and Social Council, where the topic of international cooperation in the elimination of the consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant accident is being considered. This suggests that the meeting is related to environmental and humanitarian issues, rather than economic development or industry.