United Nations Volunteers Programme

A/RES/2810(XXVI)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1972.

What other versions does this mandate have?

9 versions · 1972–1984

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/38/173

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1984	A/RES/38/173	United Nations Volunteers programme	290	24%Compare
1983	A/RES/37/229	United Nations Volunteers programme	287	26%Compare
1982	A/RES/36/198	United Nations Volunteers programme	231	21%Compare
1980	A/RES/34/107	United Nations Volunteers programme	350	24%Compare
1979	A/RES/33/84	United Nations Volunteers programme	405	19%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Budget Contributions Coordination Within UN System Financing Funds International Voluntary Services

What’s in this document?

6 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Volunteers programme,20 which was submitted in accordance with General Assembly resolution 2659 (XXV);

Requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme, as well as the Governing Council of the Programme, to continue to assist in the promotion of the United Nations Volunteers programme, particularly in overcoming the question of financial difficulties which tend to inhibit the growth of this programme;

Reaffirms its conviction that United Nations Volunteers should not be sent to countries without the explicit request and approval of the recipient Governments concerned;

Requests all the specialized agencies and other organizations in the United Nations system to channel all requests for volunteers in development projects executed by them through the United Nations Volunteers programme and to co-ordinate all volunteer activities within United Nations-assisted projects with the Coordinator of the programme;

Invites Governments of States Members of the United Nations or members of specialized agencies, international organizations, voluntary agencies and individuals to contribute in every way possible to the Special Voluntary Fund for the United Nations Volunteers;

Requests the Secretary-General and the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to report, through the Governing Council and the Economic and Social Council, to the General Assembly at its twenty-seventh session on the progress made in the implementation of Assembly resolution 2659 (XXV).

14 December 1971.

15 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 15 (A/8415/Rev.l), part three, annex I.

1s Ibid.

16 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council,

10 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-sixth Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 6 (E/4954 and Corr.1).

Session, Second Committee, 1385th meeting, paras. 47-54.

11 Ibid., Supplement No. 6A (E/5043/Rev.1).

~o E/5028.

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