Requeststhe Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its thirty-first session, through the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, information-including the relevant authorization and budgetary appropriations-on programmes, projects or activities within the United Nations which have already been completed or are nearly completed, or which were considered by the appropriate intergovernmental bodies, in particular when they werc examining the medium-term plan, as obsolete, of marginal usefulness or ineffective;
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Further requeststhe Secretary-General to include in the above-mentioned information specific examples of steps taken towards reorganizing, merging, eliminating, or otherwise, units within the Secretariat which had been established for the foregoing programmes, projects or activities;
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Decides to take -into account the above-mentioned information in considering the medium-tcnn plan for the period 1978-1981 at its thirty-first session;
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Decides also to include in future United Nations programme budgets information relating to the anticipated duration of all new programmes, projects or activities;
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Decides further to include in the performance reports on the United Nations progvamme budgets relevant information on the staff and resources released as a result of the completion, reduction, reorganization,
60 A/C.5 /1715/Rev.I.
61 Offidal Records of the General Assembly, Thirtieth Session, Supplement No. 8 A (A/10008/ Add.1-28), document Al 10008/ Add.26. General Auembly-Thirtieth Session merging, elimination or otherwise of Únited Nations programmes, projects or activities.
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