text: participate in the centre's work. The Council should that other agenda items were also linked to the item take due account of that idea in its work. on women and development. 13. Furthermore, his delegation supported the in-21. He endorsed the view that the principle of elusion in the Council's programme of work for 1986 taking full advantage of United Nations facilities in and 1987 of an item concerning the examination of the headquarters cities must be respected in sched- long-term trends in economic development, on the uling meetings, as part of overall efforts to basis of General Assembly resolution 40/207. It also economize. wished to suggest that the Council and/o~ its relev~nt subsidiary bodies should consider questwns relatmg 22. He also agreed with the statement made by the to the unrestricted flow of modern technologies in Director-General for Development and International the field of protection of the environment. Economic Co-operation at the previous meeting on h the need for the Council to focus its attention on a 14. It was a matter of concern to his delegation t at number of priority items at both its first and its the Commission for Social Development met only on a biennial basis and only for a short period, with the second regular sessions. result that basic problems relating to social develop- 23. Lastly, in connection with the report of the ment could not be considered in depth. It was Trade and Development Board, everything possible therefore appropriate that in resolution 40/98 t_he should be done to rationalize the Board's work as General Assembly had invited the Council to cons1d- early as possible along the lines being discussed at er, at its first regular session of 1986, existing ways Geneva. and means of improving the work of the Com- 24. Mr. RAHMAN (Bangladesh) said that the mission. Council had adopted the practice of establishing a 
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the work of the United Nations, specifically the Council, and its relation to economic development, international trade, and environmental protection. The speakers mentioned in the text are discussing the importance of focusing on a number of priority items, including long-term trends in economic development and the unrestricted flow of modern technologies in the field of environmental protection. This suggests that the text is primarily concerned with economic development and international trade, with a secondary focus on environmental protection.