Review of the Efficiency of the Administrative and Financial Functioning of the United Nations Resolutions

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 117 Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations, published in 1991.

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8 documents · 1986–2006

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2006	A/RES/60/254	Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations	1,190	–
1994	A/RES/48/218B	Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations	1,858	–
1994	A/RES/48/218A	Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations	—	–
1991	A/RES/45/254	Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations resolutions	895	–
1991	A/RES/45/254[B]	Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations resolutions	—	–

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A/RES/45/254 [A]

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Takes note with appreciation of the analytical re port of the Secretary-General on the implementation of General Assembly resolution 41/213;30

Endorses the relevant conclusions and recom mendations of the Committee for Programme and Co ordination and of the Advisory Committee on Admin istrative and Budgetary Questions;

Renews its appeal to all Member States to demonstrate their commitment to the United Nations by, inter alia, meeting their financial obligations on time and in full in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the Financial Regulations of the United Nations;

Emphasizes that the strengthening of the effec tiveness of the Organization is a continuing process re quiring the joint efforts of Member States and the Sec retariat;

Stresses that measures for the improvement of the effectiveness of the Organization should aim at the fulfilment of all its objectives;

Reiterates its support for the Secretary-General in the fulfilment of his responsibility as chief administra tive officer;

Recognizes the importance of the new budget process for the enhancement of the effectiveness of the Organization;

Encourages the Secretary-General and Member States to pursue the objectives of resolution 113, particularly those that have yet to be met, and mvltes the Secretary-General to consolidate and build upon the results achieved through the reform process and to submit proposals,

whenever necessary,

for im provements in the administrative and financil func tioning of the Organization, in order to enable 1t to ful fil more effectively its role;

Encourages the Secretary-General to continue to implement the provisions of resolution 41/213 and other relevant resolutions on questions of personnel and posts in the Organization, particularly those that have yet to be implemented, and invites Member States and the Secretary-General to exercise maximum re straint in their proposals for the staffing table of the Or ganization, particularly for high-level posts;

Stresses that the relationship between posts and programmes funded from the regular budget and those funded from extrabudgetary resources requires further analysis and consideration;

Invites the Secretary-General to ensure greater transparency in the management and use of the ex trabudgetary resources made available to the Organiza tion in order, in particular, to assess more precisely the impact of those resources on the activities, programmes and priorities of the Organization;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-sixth session a report on all aspects of the role and use of extrabudgetary re sources, as outlined by the Advisory Committee on Ad ministrative and Budgetary Questions in its report to the Assembly at its forty-fourth session;99

Encourages the intention of the Secretariat to develop management and work-load analysis tech niques and invites the Secretary-General to take into account the results of such techniques in the course of his preparation of proposed programme budgets in order to ensure the full and effective implementation of all programmes and activities of the United Nations;

Reiterates the importance of a comprehensive solution to the problem of all additional expenditures,

including those deriving from inflation and currency fluctuation;

Reiterates also the importance of the review of the procedures for the provision of statements of pro gramme budget implications and for the use and oper ation of the contingency fund, and recalls that it will consider a single report on these questions at its forty sixth session;

Calls upon Member States to provide the condi tions for the effective functioning of the Organization, in particular through the fulfilment of their financial obligations as set out in the Charter, in order to sustain the desirable effects of the process of reform and re newal;

Decides to continue considering annually the administrative, structural and other aspects of the im provement of the efficiency of the Organization, and in vites the Secretary-General to report accordingly.

nor its fruits equitably shared, if it is not securely anchored in re spect for human rights and fundamental freedoms.

(b) Renumber the subsequent paragraphs accordingly.

Divide former paragraph 35.24 into three subparagraphs dealing respectively with:

(a) Migrant workers;

(b) Minorities;

At the end of the first line of former paragraph 35.41, after re alization of insert the right of people to self-determination and.

98 N45/226 and N45/370.

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99 Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 7A (N44n/Add.l-8), document N44/1/Add.7.

IOI N45/478.

102 N45/369.

103 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-fif1h Session,

Suf\lement No. 16 (N45/16), part two. 100 See N45/835.

A/45/878.

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