Pattern of Conferences

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 102 Pattern of conferences and 12 Report of the Economic and Social Council, published in 1979.

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107 documents · 1958–2025

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 2025).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2025	A/RES/80/234	Pattern of conferences	5,780	–
2024	A/RES/79/248	Pattern of conferences	6,725	–
2023	A/RES/78/245	Pattern of conferences	6,396	–
2023	A/RES/77/255	Pattern of conferences	6,274	–
2021	A/RES/76/237	Pattern of conferences	6,474	–

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9 operative paragraphs

Mindful of the fact that it is essential to provide the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon with the necessary financial resources to enable it to fulfil its responsibilities under the relevant resolutions of the Security Council,

Concerned that the Secretary-General is facing growing difficulties in meeting the obligations of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon on a current basis, p~rticularly those due to the troop contributors,

Concerned that the financial situation of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon will soon be reaching a critical stage,

Decides that the provisions of regulations 5.2 (b), 5.2 (d), 4.3 and 4.4 of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations shall be suspended temporarily in respect of the amount of $122,492 which otherwise would have to be surrendered pursuant to those provisions, this amount to be entered in a separately identified account of the United Nations and held in suspense pending a further decision by the General Assembly.

34 / 50.

Pattern of conferences

Welcomes the action taken by the Economic and Social Council on the pattern of conferences in its decision 1979 /81 of 3 August I 979, and on the control and limitation of documentation in its resolutions 1979/1 of 9 February 1979, 1979/41 of 10 May 1979 and 1979 /69 of 2 August 1979;

Approves the recommendation of the Committee for Program~e and Co-ordination contained in paragraph 303 of its report 21 to the effect that inter alia the above-mentioned resolutions of the Econ~mic and S~cial Council on control and limitation of documentation should be applied to the General Assembly and its subsidiary organs and that the Secretary-General should be requested to implement them fully;

Requests the Committee on Conferences to ex- ~mine ways to_ enable it to play a more effective role m the scheduling of conferences and meetings and in the management of conference resources, and to report ther~on to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth sess10n;

26 See Official Records of the General Assembly Thirtyfourth Session, Supplement No. 32 (A/34/32 and' Corr.I), para. 53 ( b).

27 Ibid., Supplement No. 38 (A/34/38).

Also requests the Committee on Conferences to review the extent to which resolutions and recommendations adopted by the General Assembly on the pattern of conferences have been implemented, including an examination of the planned and actual duration of sessions of the subsidiary organs of the Assembly, and to report its findings to the Assembly at its thirty-fifth session;

Further requests the Committee on Conferences to monitor the implementation of all measures adopted by the General Assembly to control and limit documentation, including those on the provision of meeting records and the application of measures to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the conference activities of the Organization, and to report thereon to the Assembly at its thirty-fifth session;

Invites the Committee on Conferences, when making any adjustment in the calendar of conferences for 1980-1981 resulting from decisions of the General Assembly, to take full account of all conference facilities available at established United Nations headquarters;

Requests the Committee on Conferences to review the organizational and servicing arrangements of past special conferences and their preparatory meetings with a view to identifying the most effective framework for the organization of such conferences in the future.

34 / 164.

Joint Inspection Unit

Takes note with appreciation of the eleventh report on the activities of the Joint Inspection Unit, covering the period from July 1978 to June 1979 ;28 2.

Approves the "Glossary of Evaluation Terms" 2" and recommends its use throughout the United Nations system;

Takes note of the document entitled "Initial guidelines for internal evaluation systems of the United Nations organizations""" and endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained therein;

Takes note with approval of the note by the ~ecretary-General entitled "The identification of output 111 the programme budget of the United Nations"31 and the progress report of the Secretary-General on the establishment of internal work programmes and procedures for reporting on programme implementation;32 5.

Takes note of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit on the Inter-Organization Board for Information Systems;""

28 A/C.5/34/ l.

29 See A/34/286.

:io See A/34/27 I.

·' 1 A/C.5/34/2.

32 A/C.5/34/3.

33 See A/34/153.

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