55. The Chairperson said that, as some delegations might be aware, he had been informed recently by UNCTAD that it would like to introduce, at the present meeting, the written information that it had recently submitted in response to the request from the Council at the last meeting on the outcome of the UNCTAD Expert Meeting on International Arrangements for Transfer of Technology in June 2001. However, UNCTAD had just informed him that it wished to withdraw its request for the floor explaining that, following contact it had had with Members, it would appear to be preferable for it to make its statement at the next meeting, when the Council would revert to the agenda item concerning the implementation of Article 66.2.
