Programmes of technical assistance under the regular budget of the United Nations

XVII. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORT OF THE FIFTH COMMITTEE
1768. Programmes of technical assistance under the regular budget of the United Nations

The General Assembly, Recognizing the importance of providing adequate funds for technical assistance to the developing countries, Recalling resolution 1527 (XV) of 15 December 1960, under which the General Assembly provided $5 million for the 1961-1962 biennium to meet the urgent need for emergency assistance to the States newly admitted to the United Nations, Realizing that these needs, which are so important to development, growth and nation building, can at best be met only in part from the amounts which can be provided in the regular budget for technical programmes, Considering that funds included in the regular budget for technical programmes should be administered in accordance with the financial regulations and practices normally applying to the regular budget, Believing that, as a matter of urgency, a solution must be found to the continuing problem of providing for these priority needs for technical assistance within the limits of sound financial policies,

1. Decides to provide in the regular budget for 1963 the sum of $6.4 million for part V (Technical programmes);

2. Invites the Technical Assistance Committee to prepare, at its November 1962 session, a study of the relationship between the various United Nations programmes of technical assistance under its mandate and the regular budget programmes with a view to their rationalization and in order to avoid duplication of activities in future fiscal years;

3. Requests the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions promptly to review this study, inform the Secretary-General of its comments and recommendations, and report thereon to the General Assembly as a matter of urgency in order to assist the Secretary-General and the Assembly in rationalizing the relationship between technical assistance programmes financed from the regular budget and those which are to be provided for from other sources and in arriving at the appropriation for part V of the budget.

1174th plenary meeting,
23 November 1962.
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