17. 主席团认为经济及社会理事会主席为委员会第四十九届会议的工作作出了重要贡献，请主席团主席邀请他发起关于议程项目 5“关于人口与发展问题对经济及社会理事会 2016 年关于‘执行 2015 年后发展议程：从承诺到成果’的一般性辩论的贡献”。
17. The Bureau agreed that the President of the Economic and Social Council would make a contribution to the work of the forty-ninth session of the Commission and requested the Chair of the Bureau to invite him to launch the discussion on agenda item 5, “General debate on the contribution of population and development issues to the Economic and Social Council theme in 2016 on ‘Implementing the post-2015 development agenda: moving from commitments to results’”.