Identification of Activities that Have Been Completed or Are Obsolete, of Marginal Usefulness or Ineffective

A/RES/35/209View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 92 Medium-term plan for the period 1980-1983, published in 1981.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1980–1981

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1981	A/RES/35/209	Identification of activities that have been completed or are obsolete, of marginal usefulness or ineffective	726	10%Compare
1980	A/RES/34/225	Identification of activities that have been completed or are obsolete, of marginal usefulness or ineffective	868	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Medium-Term Plan Obsolete Activities Programme Evaluation

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

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Takes note of the report of the Secretary- General" submitted to the General Assembly at the

·'' Ibid, Supplement No 5A (A/35/5/Add.1), sects. I and IV.

"Ibid., Supplement No. 5B (A/35/5/Add.2), part one, sects. I and V: and part two. sect. II.

"Ibid., Supplement No 5C (A/35/5/Add.3), sects. lll-V.

'' Ibid., Supplement No. 5D (A/35/5/Add.4), sects. I and IV.

''' Ibid., Supplement No. 5£ (A/35/5/Add.5), sect. 111.

2 Ibid., Supplement No 5F (A/35/5/Add.6), sects. I and IV.

'"Ibid., Supplement No 5G (A/35/5/Add.7), sects. I and IV.

-''' Ibid .. Supplement No. 5H (A/35/5/Add.8), sects. I and IV.

"' Ibid .. Supplement No. 5 (A/35/5), vol. I, sect. Ill; vol. 111, sect. Ill; and vol. IV, sect. 111: ibid., Supplement No. 5A (A/35/5/Add.l), sect. Ill; ibid., Supplement No. 5B(A/35/5/Add.2), part one, sect. Ill; ibid .. Supplement No. 5C (A/35/5/Add.3), sect. II; ibid., Supplement No. 5D (A/35/5/Add.4). sect. Ill: ibid., Supplement No. 5E(A/35/5/ Add.5), sect. II: ibid .. Supplement No. 5F (A/35\5/Add.6), sect. Ill; ibid .. Supplement No. 5G (A/35/5/Add.7). sect. I I; and ibid .. Supplement No. 5H (A/35/5/Add.8). sect. Ill.

" A/35/437.

'' Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-fifth Session. Supplement No. 5 (A/35/5), vol. I, sect. II: vol. Ill, sect. II; and vol. IV. sect. II; ibid., Supplement No. 5A (A/35/5/Add.1). sect. 11: ibid .. Supplement No. 5B (A/35/5/Add.2). part one, sect. II: ibid., Supplement No. 5C(A/35i5/Add.3), sect. I; ibid .. Supplement No. 5D (A/]5/5/Add.4). sect. 11: ibid. Supplement No. 5£ (A/35/5/Add.5), sect. 1: ibid .. Supplement No. 5F(A/35/5/Add.6), sect. II; ibid., Supplement No. 5G (A/.15 51Add.7). sect. II: and ibid .. Supplement Vo. 5H (A/35/5:Add.8). sect. 11.

" ,\ C.5/35/40 and Add. I

request of the Economic and Social Council, and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;"

Decides to terminate the activities identified in the Secretary-General's report as obsolete, ineffective or of marginal usefulness, taking into consideration the opinions of competent bodies;

Approves the proposals of the Set:retary-General that an integrated and comprehensive procedure for the identification of completed, obsolete, ineffective and marginally useful activities should be established within the framework of the planning, programming and budgeting cycles of the United Nations:

Requests, to this end, the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination at its twenty-first session to undertake, in the context of its consideration of programme priority setting, a comprehensive study of this subject and to submit its conclusions to the Economic and Social Council at its second regular session of 1981 and to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session:

Transmits the report of the Secretary-General to the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination for

further consideration at its twenty-first session:

Requests the Secretary-General in the meantime to identify obsolete, marginally useful and ineffective activities, in the preparation of the programme budget for the biennium 1982-1983, for the consideration of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination and the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions in their examinations of the programme budget proposals;

Endorses the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions that the submission of a full and 1:omprehensive report on the implementation of General Assembly resolution 3534 (XXX) and subsequent resolutions

affirming it, requested by the Assembly in its resolution 34/225, be deferred until the thirty-seventh session.

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