At its 78th plenary meeting, on 20 December 2002, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Fifth Committee:130
(a) Took note of the report of the Secretary-General on additional expenditures deriving from inflation and currency fluctuations161 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;162
(b) Decided to continue consideration of this question at the main part of its fifty-eighth session in the context of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005, and requested the Secretary-General to submit a report providing a comparative analysis of the practice followed by other international organizations in this regard for consideration at the main part of its fifty-eighth session.
