InvitesGovernments to give the fullest support to the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance and to announce their pledges for the year 1955 at the forthcoming Fifth United Nations Technical Assistance Conference, in order to ensure the continued growth of the Programme ;
2
Recommendsthat Governments and participating organizations continue to pay due regard to making the
1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Ninth Session, Supplement No. 3, chapter III.
2 See document A/2661.
3 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Ninth Session, Second Committee, 315th meeting, paras. 3 and 4.
RESOLlITION ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE SECOND AND FIFTH COMMITTEES
aims and operations of the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance more widely known;
B
1
Approves the arrangements recommended by the Economic and Social Council and reproduced in annex I to the present resolution regarding the reconstitution of the Special Reserve Fund of the Expanded Programme as a Working Capital and Reserve Fund;
2
Approves the recommendation• of the Council that the financial arrangements for the year 1954 as laid down in Council resolution 492 C (XVI), section II,· and reproduced in annex II to the present resolution, be continued for the year 1955;
3
Approves the recommendations of the Council regarding the fuh,tre system of allocation of funds under the Expanded Programme, outlined in annex III to the present resolution and included in Council resolution 542 B (XVIII), section JI, amending resolutions 222 (IX) and 433 (XIV);
4
Requeststhe Council to study the means of securing, where possible, contributions to the Expanded Programme on a continuing basis;
C Refers to the Fconomi•: and Social Council the comments and recommendations contained in the first report5 of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions to the ninth session of the General Assembly;
D Requests the Economic and Social Council to furnish to the General Assembly at its tenth session a report on the progress made in the consideration of the questions raised in the first report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions to the ninth session, together with the comments of the Advisory Committee on the report of the Council.
