Pattern of Conferences Resolutions

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 124Pattern of conferences, published in 1991.

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107 documents · 1958–2025

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9 topics

Calendar of Meetings Conference and Meeting Services Coordination Within UN System Documents Distribution Documents Limitation Meeting Records Printing Serial Publications Standards

What does this mandate say?

15 operative paragraphs

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Approves the draft revised calendar of conferen ces and meetings of the United Nations for 1991 as sub mitted by the Committee on Conferences;27

Requests the Committee on Conferences to re view, within its mandate, the existing procedures with regard to inter-sessional departures from the approved calendar of conferences and meetings and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its forty-sixth ses sion;

Authorizes the Committee on Conferences to make adjustments in the calendar of conferences and meetings for 1991 that may become necessary as a re sult of action and decisions taken by the General As sembly at its forty-fifth session;

Calls upon the Committee on Conferences to continue to explore new ways to improve its effective ness in carrying out its mandate as approved by the General Assembly;

Notes the efforts made by a number of United Nations organs to improve the utilization of confer ence-servicing resources;

Invites United Nations bodies, in making re quests for conference services in accordance with their respective mandates, to ensure that the conference ser vices requested are sufficient to enable them to carry out their tasks fully and that they match, to the extent possible, their actual requirements;

Urges all United Nations organs and bodies to in tensify their efforts to improve their utilization of re quested conference-servicing resources;

Calls upon the Committee on Conferences to consider, within its mandate, further measures to im prove the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the use of conference-servicing resources, bearing in mind the relevant recommendations contained in the report of the Group of High-level Intergovernmental Experts to Review the Efficiency of the Administrative and Finan cial Functioning of the United Nations,28 as approved by the General Assembly in its resolution 41/213 of 19 December 1986, and to report to the Assembly at its forty-sixth session;

Requests the Chairman of the Committee on Conferences and the Secretary-General to maintain their contacts with all United Nations organs in order

to ensure the most efficient and effective use of confer ence services allocated to those organs;

Requests the Chairmen of United Nations or gans to bring the concerns about the utilization of con ference-servicing resources to the attention of the or gans concerned;

Requests the Committee on Conferences, in im plementing the new methodology on conference-servic ing utilization rates, to consider additional elements proposed in the discussions in the Fifth Committee and to report thereon to the General Assembly;

Also requests the Committee on Conferences to remain seized of the matter of the improved utilization of conference-servicing resources on the basis of fur ther reports from the Secretary-General;

Welcomes the efforts of the Secretary-General in the area of system-wide co-ordination of conference services and invites him in this regard to use more ex tensively the co-ordinating potential of the Consulta tive Committee on Administrative Questions;

Also welcomes the revised work-load standards for conference-servicing staff, which, as noted in sec tion II, paragraph 2, of General Assembly resolution 45/248 A of 21 December 1990, reflect a further step towards enhanced productivity of conference-servicing staff;

Requests the Secretary-General, in view of con tinuing investments in technologies, to continue to ex plore ways to achieve optimum use of all resources in the area of conference-servicing.

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