Pattern of Conferences Resolutions

A/RES/49/221View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 111 Pattern of conferences, published in 1995.

What else is in this group?

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	–

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

What subjects does this mandate have?

15 subjects

Apartheid Budget Calendar of Meetings Conference and Meeting Services Conference Facilities Dissolution Documents Distribution Documents Limitation Language Services Meeting Records Personnel Management Subsidiary Bodies Training Programmes Vienna (Austria)Work Organization

What’s in this document?

78 operative paragraphs

A

Takes note with appreciation of the work of the Committee on Conferences;

Approves the draft revised calendar of conferences and meetings of the United Nations for 1995 as submitted by the Committee on Conferences;³

³A/49/32 and Corr.1, annex I. 95-76741

Authorizes the Committee on Conferences to make adjustments in the calendar of conferences and meetings for 1995 that may become necessary as a result of actions and decisions taken by the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session;

Invites the competent legislative organs to disband all bodies dealing with apartheid pursuant to General Assembly resolutions 48/258 A and B of 23 June 1994;

Invites United Nations bodies to avoid holding meetings on 2 March and 9 May 1995, and the Secretariat, when drafting future calendars of conferences and meetings, to take these arrangements into account;

Decides that the waiver to the headquarters rule contained in General Assembly resolution 40/243 of 18 December 1985 shall be:

Discontinued in the case of the Legal Subcommittee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, in view of the transfer of that body to Vienna and its decision to hold its meetings at Vienna in future;

Reformulated in the case of the Economic and Social Council, in the light of the measure adopted by the Assembly in paragraph 5 (c) of the annex to its resolution 45/264 of 13 May 1991, whereby one substantive session of the Council of four to five weeks' duration takes place in alternate years in New York and Geneva between May and July;

Discontinued in the case of the functional commissions of the Economic and Social Council, as they have not exercised their right to meet away since 1985.

B

Invites the bodies established by the Charter of the United Nations to review their entitlement to meeting records, and appeals to the treaty bodies authorized to establish their own practice in the matter to review their need for such records;

Decides that meeting records shall be provided as set forth in the annex to the present resolution;

Requests the following bodies to submit, in accordance with existing procedures, to the General Assembly at its fiftieth session, through the Committee on Conferences, justifications for the continuation of the current entitlement to meeting records:

United Nations Administrative Tribunal (when holding oral hearings);

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space;

First Committee;

Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples;

Subsidiary organs of the General Assembly that meet on the occasion of international days of solidarity proclaimed by the Assembly;

Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;

Reiterates its request that the chairmen of the relevant organs and subsidiary bodies of the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, its subsidiary bodies and other United Nations bodies should propose to Member States, at the beginning of each session, the adoption of time-limits for speakers;

Decides that meeting records shall be issued in a timely fashion;

Also decides to adopt the following measures for limiting documentation:

Documents originating in the Secretariat should be clear and concise, generally not exceeding the established page-limits, except in cases where this is necessary in order to provide the information required by intergovernmental and expert bodies; to this end, the Secretary-General should keep the existing practice for the control and limitation of documentation under review, in order to reduce the length of documents wherever possible;

Reports of subsidiary organs should be action-oriented and concise and should contain precise information confined to a description of the work done by the organ concerned, to the conclusions it has reached, to its decisions and to its recommendations to the General Assembly;

The Secretariat is requested to ensure that documentation is available, in each of the official languages of the United Nations, in accordance with the six-week rule for the distribution of documents;

The Secretariat is also requested, before a legislative mandate requesting documentation is adopted by the General Assembly, to indicate whether that documentation can be prepared in accordance with the six-week rule and existing relevant budgetary procedures;

Member States and subsidiary organs of the General Assembly are requested to exercise, to the fullest extent possible, restraint in making proposals that contain requests for reports, in full compliance with decisions on the rationalization of the programme of work;

Takes note of the content of annex II to the report of the Committee on Conferences,⁵ and requests the Secretariat to follow up on it and to report thereon to the Committee at its substantive session of 1995.

⁵A/49/32 and Corr.1.

C

Endorses the findings and conclusions of the comprehensive study on conference services, subject to the provisions of the present resolution;

Welcomes the efforts made by the Secretary-General to improve conference services, and urges the Secretariat to continue exploring ways and means of providing conference services in a manner that fully responds to the needs of intergovernmental and expert bodies, while ensuring the criteria of quality and timeliness;

Requests the Secretary-General, within the context of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997, to take into account the possible negative effects, if any, of the elimination of nineteen posts in the Office of Conference and Support Services;

Also requests the Secretary-General, in particular, to take into account the requirements for conference services arising from the increased workload of the Security Council and, consequently, of the Fifth Committee and the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;

Further requests the Secretary-General, in the context of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997, to include more transparent performance indicators, better cost information on meetings and documentation and a detailed analysis of real demand for conference services;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly recommendations on language training to be included in the programme budget proposals for the biennium 1996-1997, for the purpose of keeping interpreters and translators current with the latest developments in the six official languages of the United Nations.

D

Notes that existing facilities in the Indonesian and Chinese lounges have become inadequate for the holding of bilateral meetings and contacts among Member States during the annual sessions of the General Assembly;

Requests the Secretary-General, as a matter of priority, to improve the arrangements and meeting facilities in the Indonesian and Chinese lounges with a view to enabling more bilateral meetings and contacts among Member States to take place;

Also requests the Secretary-General to make available other venues for such meetings;

Calls upon the Secretariat to examine the possibility of instituting an equitable and efficient system for the use of these facilities and venues;

Requests the Secretariat to implement these improvements in time for the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations;

Decides that such improvements shall be made within existing resources.

Entitlement to written meeting records

Bodies continuing to receive verbatim records:

Security Council;

Military Staff Committee;

General Assembly (plenary meetings);

Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories (for hearings of witnesses);

United Nations Administrative Tribunal (when holding oral hearings);

Trusteeship Council;

Conference on Disarmament (on the understanding that the Conference receives verbatim records from full statements as delivered and checked by the delegations concerned but without the use of verbatim reporters);

Disarmament Commission;

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space;

First Committee;

Special Committee on the Situation with regard to the Implementation of the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Countries and Peoples;

Subsidiary organs of the General Assembly that meet on the occasion of international days of solidarity proclaimed by the Assembly.

Bodies for which summary records will be provided:

General Committee and Main Committees of the General Assembly;

Subsidiary organs of the Security Council;

Economic and Social Council (plenary meetings);

International Law Commission;

Ad Hoc Committee on the Indian Ocean;

Commission on Human Rights and Subcommission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities;

Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People;

Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space - Legal Subcommittee;

Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights;

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law;

Executive Committee of the Programme of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees;

International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination:

Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination;

Meetings of States parties;

Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment:

Committee against Torture;

Meetings of States parties;

Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women: Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women;

Convention on the Rights of the Child:

Committee on the Rights of the Child;

Meetings of States parties;

International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights:

Human Rights Committee;

Meetings of States parties.

Body for which meeting records will no longer be provided:

Committee on Applications for Review of Administrative Tribunal Judgements (except if the Committee requests an advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice).

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