Review of the resource requirements for the High-level International Intergovernmental Eevent on Financing for Development and the Third UN Conference on the Least Developed Countries — A/RES/54/258B | UN Mandate Registry
Review of the Resource Requirements for the High-Level International Intergovernmental Eevent on Financing for Development and the Third Un Conference on the Least Developed Countries
2Consequently, resolution 54/258 of 7 April 2000 becomes resolution 54/258 A.
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Welcomes the fact that voluntary contributions for the financing of activities related to the first session of the Intergovernmental Preparatory Committee for the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries have been pledged;
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Expresses appreciation for the contributions and pledges received and, noting the current level of the resources in the Trust Fund for Least Developed Countries: Core Project, looks forward to the rapid disbursement of the funds being pledged;
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Decides, as a precautionary measure, that should sufficient extrabudgetary resources not be immediately available for the financing of the first session of the Preparatory Committee, use would be made, on a provisional basis, of the contingency fund, on the understanding that the contingency fund would be replenished by those extrabudgetary resources as soon as they were available;
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Decides also to revert to the question of the financing of the second session of the Preparatory Committee and the Conference itself at the fifty-fifth session of the General Assembly;
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Welcomes the establishment of a Trust Fund for the Preparatory Committee for the high-level international intergovernmental event on financing for development;
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Decides that the expenses related to the travel and subsistence of the members of the Bureau of the Preparatory Committee in relation to the consultations mandated in General Assembly resolution 54/279 of 15 June 2000 shall be met through the transfer, to the Trust Fund for the Preparatory Committee, of the balance available in the Trust Fund for the Participation of Least Developed Countries in Intergovernmental Meetings;
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Encouragesmembers of the Bureau to finance their own travel and subsistence where possible.
