Future Organization and Methods of Work of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names

E/RES/2018/2View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the Economic and Social Council, under agenda item 18i Geospatial information, published in 2018.

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1 entity

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	Subprogramme 4	Statistics	21

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1 entity

Entity	(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
	Subprogramme 4	Statistics	21	—

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What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Conferences Geographical Names Groups of Experts Standardization

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11 operative paragraphs

Decides that the United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names and the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names shall be discontinued in their current formats and be subsumed by a subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council that will retain their respective mandates, where relevant, as well as resolutions of the United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names and responsibility for the implementation thereof, will be named the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names, which will be composed of representatives of States Members of the United Nations, including experts appointed by Governments, and will focus on technical issues associated with the standardization of geographical names that may, where appropriate, support relevant aspects of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development;²

²General Assembly resolution 70/1.

Also decides that the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names shall convene biennial sessions, in principle, over a period of five days, beginning in 2019, with the full authority to set its strategic direction and adopt resolutions to be submitted to the Economic and Social Council and to be able to address the needs of a rapidly changing and expanding technical environment in a timely manner;

Further decides that the Group of Experts shall convene its sessions in New York, with the option to convene sessions at an alternative United Nations venue or in a specific country, should a Member State commit to hosting and funding the session;

Reaffirms the need to consider ways to avoid duplication and overlapping of efforts, if any, as well as to strengthen the joint work between the Group of Experts and the Committee of Experts on Global Geospatial Information Management, taking into account that places and geospatial objects referred to by geographical names should have a geospatial location established through the global geodetic reference frame;

Decides that the elected Bureau of the Group of Experts shall be maintained to oversee the 2017–2019 transition, on an exceptional basis;

Also decides that the rules of procedure shall be drafted by the Bureau, in close consultation with the States Members of the United Nations, and be presented to the Economic and Social Council for adoption, in line with the procedures of relevant Council bodies, in advance of the first session of the Group of Experts, and that these rules will be the subject of an open negotiation process and will cover, among other matters, the following points:

Identification of the structure of the Bureau, election methods and terms of service;

Operational structure of the Group of Experts, including the role and scope of any plenary sessions, technical committees, working groups or divisional structures aimed at providing support for countries with regard to developing and refining programmes for the standardization of geographical names;

Development of a draft agenda for the first session, reflecting, wherever possible, the agendas of the most recent session of the Group of Experts and the most recent United Nations Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names;

Ongoing review processes with regard to the structure and methods of work of the Group of Experts;

Participation.

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