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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1972.

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19 operative paragraphs

Takes note of part A, relating to documentation, of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit, and the related comments of the Secretary-General and of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, and section IX, relating to documentation of the report of the Special Committee on the Ration~ 1ñ A/8448/ Add.1. annex T: see ,,.Jso A/8448/ A<ld.2.

16 See also resolution 2837 (XXVI), annex II, sect. VIII.

17 See A/8319 and Corr. l.

18 O/ficinl Records of the General Assembly Twenty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 26 (A/8426).

' 10 See A/8488.

20 A/8532 and Corr.1 and 2. alization of the Procedures and Organization of the General Assembly;

Requests the Secretary-General to reduce in 1972 the volume of documentation originating in thc Secretariat, other than meetings records, by 15 per cent over-all, compared with the volume of such documentation in 1970 and, to that end, to take such administrative action as may be necessary, including the establishment of departmental quotas, to achievc that target;

Decides that the reports submitted to it by its subsidiary organs, by its Main Committees, by the Trade and Development Board and by the Industrial Development Board shall be drafted on the basis of the following principies:

Toe reports should be action-oriented and concise and should contain precise information confincd to a description of the work done by the organ concerned, to the conclusions it has reached, to it<; decisions and to the recommendations made to the General Assembly;

( b) lntroductions containing background information should, as far as possible, be confined to matters of substance rather than procedure and should contain only what it is essential to bring to the notice of the General Assembly;

( c) The account of the deliberations should be concise and should be supplemented, as necessary, by cross-references to the summary records;

( d) Texts available in easily accessible documents should not be incorporated in or annexed to the report;

Texts which are not easily accessible should not be annexed when their substance can reasonably be incorporated in the main body of the report;

Participants should not be listed by name, unless they are serving in their individual capacity;

Where appropriate, reports should include a summary of the proposals, conclusions and recommendations contained therein;

Invites the Economic and Social Council to rcquest its subsidiary bodies to follow the principles set forth in paragraph 3 above when preparing their reports to the Council;

Requests the Trade and Development Board and the Industrial Development Board to adopt decisions for the control of their documentation, applying mutatis mutandis the guidelines set out in section III of Economic and Social Council resolution 1623 (LI);

Invites the Security Council to implement recommendation 7 contained in part A, section IX, of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit;

Invites the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, the Trustceship Council, the Trade and Development Board and the Industrial Development Board to adopt decisions containing provisions similar to those in paragraph 1 O ( b) of General Assembly resolution 2538 (XXIV);

Decides that for the purposes of paragraph 1 O

of resolution 2538 (XXIV) the term "summary records" shall mean any meetings records that are prepared by précis-writers and/or translators;

Requests ali its Main Committees, when considering items on their agenda which involve the submission of annual reports of subsidiary organs or of the Secretary-General, to review whether such reports can be submitted at less frequent intervals;

ll9 1 O. Draws the attention of the Economic and Social progressive savings which can be expected to flow Council to recommendation 1 O contained in part A,

from the implementation of the recommendations resection IX, of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit;

lating to the control and limitation of documentation;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to

Invites the Secretary-General to take appropriate steps to implement recommendations 14 to 26 the General Assembly at its twenty-eighth session a concise report on the implementation of the present contained in part A, section IX, of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit, in the light of the observations resolution; of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and

Further requests the Secretary-General to take and Budgetary Questions;

such measures, including the possible application of modero management techniques, as he deems appro-

Decides to make an over-all reduction of priate to ensure that documents for consideration by $1,250,000 in the provision for documentation in the the General Assembly are distributed, as far as posbudget of the United N ations for the financial year sible, before the opening of the session. 1972;

Requests the Secretary-General to reflect in bis

17 December 1971.

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