Having considered the Secretary-General's report on the subject, 119 make certain that the measures taken to ensure the protection and security of diplomatic missions and
Convinced that, in the year of the commemoration their diplomatic personnel are adequate to enable Perof the twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations manent Missions to the United Nations to perform and on the threshold of the Second United Nations properly the functions entrusted to them by their Gov- Development Decade, it would be appropriate for ernments;
Member States to reaffirm their financial commitment to the Organization,
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Requeststhe Secretary-General to convene the
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Takes note of the study prepared by the Secre- Informal Joint Committee on Host Country Relations tary-General;119 in January 1971 and thereafter as frequently as appro-
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Requeststhe Secretary-General to examine the priate in order that it may be in a position to examine carefully the matters specified in its terms of reference117 possibility of preparing in due course additional data relevant to General Assembly resolution 2617 (XXIV); and to seek solutions to problems which fall within the broad context of relations with the host country;
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Recognizes, on the basis of the present study, that a large share of the growth in money terms has been
3
Recommendsthat the Committee undertake a applied for additional expenses in connexion with insystematic consideration of the implementation of the creases in the membership of the United Nations and Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the the specialized agencies, increases in the number of United Nations and the Agreement between the United working languages, a general rise in the cost of goods Nations and the United States of America regarding and services and the maintenance of existing establishthe Headquarters of the United Nations, 118 as well as ments; conditions of life and obligations of members of Per-
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Considers that, as a consequence of the adoption manent Missions to the United Nations;
of the International Development Strategy for the Sec-
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Authorizesthe Committee to maintain and cirond United Nations Development Decade,eo it is desirculate summary records of its proceedings;
able that there should be a suitable p-owth in tho activities undertaken by the United Nations system;
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Requeststhe Secretary-General, in consultation
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Considers it therefore important to achieve a with the Committee, to report in a comprehensive better harmonization of the programming and budgetmanner to the General Assembly at its twenty-sixth ary policies in the United Nations system through tho session on the status of the work of the Committee with establishment of closer links between the action of particular reference to the extent to which existing bodies dealing with substantive issues and those dealina problems have been solved.
with financial and budgetary questions, inter alia, with
JAPAN, NIGBll, NIOEIUA, PBllU, POLAND, UNION OP SOVIET SocLu.JST REPUBLICS, UNITED KINGDOM OP GIU!AT BllITAIN AND NORTHERN lllELAND and UNITED STATES OP AMl!lllCA.
