Recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1978.

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6 topics

Coordination Within UN System Programme Planning Programme Priorities Recommendations Subsidiary Bodies Transport

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7 operative paragraphs

Confirms that the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination, by virtue of its review of both the medium-term plan and the programme aspects of the programme budget, is the main subsidiary body of the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly for planning, programming and co-ordination with the perspective necessary to make recommendations on the relative priorities of United Nations programmes;

Urges subsidiary bodies to refrain from making recommendations on the relative priority of the major programmes, as outlined in the medium-term plan;

Requests such bodies to propose, through the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination, relative priorities to be accorded to the various subprogrammes within their respective fields of competence;

Requests the Secretary-General to give all assistance to the Committee for Programme and Coordination in its work, inter alia in connexion with the recommendation in paragraph 2 of the report of the Committee on its seventeenth session, 65 in particular to enable the Committee to assess the implications of its recommendations;

II 1.

Notes the methodology described by the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination in paragraph 3 of the report on its seventeenth session611 for improving its determination of relative growth rates;

65 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirtysecond Session, Supplement No. 38 (A/32/38).

66 A/C.5/32/26 and Corr.I.

67 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirtysecond Session, Supplement No. 8A (A/32/8/Add.1-30), document A/32/8/ Add.14.

Requests the Secretary-General to implement, in the light of the relevant recommendations and comments of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination and in the most appropriate manner, the relative growth rates accepted by the General Assembly as the framework of programme priorities;

Considers that the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination, while proposing priorities in its programme review, should continue to limit its recommendations to ranges of growth;

Invites the Committee for Programme and Coordination, in its review of the medium-term plan at its eighteenth session, to take into account the abovementioned consideration;

III I.

Authorizes the Secretary-General, in consultation with the executive secretaries of the regional commissions concerned, to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session through the Economic and Social Council, in the light of the recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination and of paragraph 16 of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,67 programme proposals for increased activity in the transport programmes of the Economic Commission for Africa, the Economic Commission for Latin America, the Economic Commission for Western Asia and the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific and revised estimates to that end;

Decides, in the light of additional information provided to the General Assembly and of subsequent developments, to defer until its thirty-third session consideration of the recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination dealing with programme transfers and reductions.

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