Review of Resource Requirements for the High-Level International Intergovernmental Event on Financing for Development and the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries

A/RES/54/258AView PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 121 Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2000-2001, published in 2000.

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7 subjects

Conferences Costs Development Finance Extrabudgetary Financing Least Developed Countries Resources Mobilization Special Accounts

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5 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General1 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;2

Reiterates the provisions of sectionVI of its resolution 45/248 B of 21 December 1990, in which it reaffirmed that the Fifth Committee was the appropriate Main Committee of the General Assembly entrusted with responsibilities for administrative and budgetary matters and also reaffirmed the role of the Advisory Committee;

Reaffirms section XIV of its resolution 54/251 of 23 December 1999, in which it decided that the special account would be maintained and the unspent balance retained until all the activities and programmes outlined in the report of the Secretary-General of 13 May 1998⁴ and approved by the General Assembly in its resolution 53/3 of 12 October 1998 were completed;

⁴A/52/898 and Corr.1.

Notes with concern that no extrabudgetary resources have been received to date in response to the note verbale of 14 February 2000 addressed to all States members of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, inviting them to consider providing, through voluntary contributions, resources to defray the costs of participation of government representatives in the meetings of the Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries and the Conference itself;

Requests the Secretary-General to explore ways of providing the resource requirements for the high-level international intergovernmental event on financing for development and the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries and to report to the General Assembly at the second part of its resumed fifty-fourth session.

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