Implementation of Section Iv of the Annex to General Assembly Resolution 32/197 on the Restructuring of the Economic and Social Sectors of the United Nations System

A/RES/34/206View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 55 Development and international economic cooperation, published in 1980.

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Takes note of Economic and Social Council resolution 1979 / 64 of 3 August 1979, entitled "Regional co-operation and development";

Emphasizes the need for more vigorous action to enable the regional commissions to play their role fully as the main general economic and social development centres within the United Nations system for their respective regions, through full and effective implementation of the provisions of paragraphs 19, 23 and 26 of section IV of the annex to General Assembly resolution 32/197;

Requests the Secretary-General, in accordance with section V, paragraph 4, of General Assembly resolution 33/202, to intensify, through inter alia the redeployment of existing posts from United Nations Headquarters to the regional commissions, the development and application of the decentralization measures contemplated in his reports on the restructuring of the economic and social sectors of the United Nations system, submitted to the Economic and Social Council at

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its second regular session of 1979206 and to the Assembly at its thirty-third session207 and thirty-fourth session, 206 as well as in Council resolution 1979/64;

Requests the Secretary-General, in co-operation with the executive secretaries of the regional commissions, to provide all the necessary support to the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination in its review, envisaged in paragraph 6 of Economic and Social Council resolution 1979 / 64, of policy and programme issues relating to the distribution of tasks and responsibilities between the regional commissions and other United Nations units, programmes and organs concerned;

Requests the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme to prepare, in co-operation with the executive secretaries of the regional commissions, proposals for enhancing the collective involvement of the countries of each region in the identification and initiation of regional projects and activities as well as in the determination of priorities for intercountry programmes;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session a report on the implementation of the above-mentioned measures.

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