Welcomes the reports of external evaluation teams indicating the positive results of the United Nations University's research, institutional relations and postgraduate training, particularly the advanced training of University Fellows who have returned to their home institutions, in collaboration with the University's associated and co-operating institutions in both developing and industrialized countries;
3
Welcomes also the progress made in setting up the World Institute for Development Economics Research, 71 the United Nations University's first research and training institution, at Helsinki, and expresses its appreciation for the leading role and invaluable support of the Government of Finland in establishing the Institute by providing financial and other forms of support;
4
Notes with satisfaction the advance made towards establishing the proposed Institute for Natural Resources in Africa72 and an international programme in biotechnology in Venezuela; 73 5.
Emphasizes the continuing need of the United Nations University to strengthen the capacity of existing scholarly and scientific institutions in developing countries;
6
Notes the need to further continue, expand and intensify co-operative activities of the United Nations University with the United Nations, its bodies and the specialized agencies, on the one hand, and with the international academic and scientific community, on the other, which enhance the responsiveness of the University to global issues and problems and bring its work into closer relation with the concerns of the United Nations system and the world academic community in regard to global issues and problems;
7
Recognizes that the United Nations University needs to intensify its fund-raising efforts to build up its Endowment Fund and Operating Fund and to ensure the development of its activities in a well-co-ordinated manner in accordance with its Charter;
8
Earnestly appeals to all Member States to take cognizance of the progress made by the United Nations University and the relevance of its work to the concerns of the United Nations and to contribute urgently and generously to its Endowment Fund and, additionally or alternatively, to make operating contributions to the University to enable it to fulfil its mandate effectively, in accordance with its Charter and with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly.
l_37 65 See resolutions 3201 (S-VI) and 3202 (S-VI).
6'i /hid .. Supplement l,o. 3 I A/39, 3 I). 66 See resolution 3362 (S· Vil).
71 Il•1d .. Th,rt_\'·ntnth Session. Supplcmem /Vo. 3 I (A/39/J l ). para. I 06. 68 See Official Records of the General Assembly. Thtrty-ninth Sessum, Sup- 7 ' J/,1d.. para 108. plement No. 14 (A/39/14), paras 3-22.
