Medium-term plan for the period 1980-1983.

35. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FIFTH COMMITTEE
9. Medium-term plan for the period 1980-1983

1. Takes note of the relative real growth rates for major programmes proposed by the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination in its report[1] and endorsed by the Economic and Social Council in its decision 1980/179 of 25 July 1980,

2. Decides to endorse the other conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination, taking into account the reservations and comments made thereon in the framing and consideration of the report in the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination, the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly, except for:

(a) The recommendation, in paragraph 321 of the report,[2] that the phrase "of an unforeseeable nature" in paragraph 6 of General Assembly resolution 31/93 of 14 December 1976 be deleted;

(b) The recommendation regarding human settlements in paragraph 364 (b) of the report;

(c) Paragraph 365 (b) (ii) of the report;

3. Endorses those revisions to the medium-term plan of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development for the period 1980-1983 accepted by the Working Party of the Trade and Development Board on the Medium-term Plan and the Programme Budget;

4. Believes that revisions to the medium-term plan should include changes recommended by intergovernmental bodies as a result of their reviews of the response of the system to existing mandates, and as a result of the implementation of General Assembly resolution 34/225 of 20 December 1979;

5. Requests intergovernmental bodies regularly to review programmes within their areas of competence in order to convey in time their views and concerns about such programmes to the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination;

6. Considers that the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination should not continue to set relative real growth rates and requests the Committee, at its twenty-first session, to determine new criteria and methods to be employed in setting programme priorities;

7. Invites the Committee for Programme and Coordination, in setting programme priorities, to take into account the views on sub-programme priorities of the relevant intergovernmental and expert bodies in the fields of their competence;

8. Reiterates that the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination should analyse the proposed programme budget in order to assess whether programme priorities have been respected;

9. Emphasizes the importance of the satisfactory implementation of the recommendations contained in paragraphs 339 and 340 of the report of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination, so that the budget proposals are ready by the end of April 1981 and the Committee is able to give the proposed programme budget its considered attention;

10. Reaffirms its belief that the joint meetings of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination and the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination, after the necessary preparations envisaged in Economic and Social Council decision 1980/185 of 25 July 1980, should afford the specialized agencies the opportunity to discuss problems of mutual interest with the intergovernmental body designated by the General Assembly in its resolution 31/93 and by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 2008 (LX) of 14 May 1976, with a view to improving the efficiency of the system;

11. Requests the Secretary- General and the heads of all specialized agencies to ensure their personal participation in those meetings, in order that they may serve the purpose envisaged for them by the General Assembly;

12. Invites the Administrative Committee on Coordination to report to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session on the measures it has taken to implement paragraph 56 of the annex to Assembly resolution 32/197 of 20 December 1977.