Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the outline of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005 for the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO,2 and concurs with the observations and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions thereon;3
3See A/57/7/Add.26. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 7.
2
Requeststhe Secretary-General to provide for documentation services in Arabic and Chinese for the Joint Advisory Group of the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO in the proposed programme budget of the Centre for the biennium 2004–2005;
3
Recalls its decision 57/572 of 20 December 2002, and requests the Secretary-General to initiate consultations with the International Trade Centre UNCTAD/WTO and the World Trade Organization for a joint review of the administrative arrangements for the Centre and to submit a report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session;
4
Reaffirms paragraph 30 of its resolution 56/253 of 24 December 2001.
