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FIFTH COMMITTEE CONTINUES REVIEW OF FINANCIAL REPORTS
Posting Date: 10/09/89 Copyright UNITEX Communications, 1989
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The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) this afternoon
took up the pattern of conferences and continued consideration
of financial reports and statements of the Board of Auditors.
Franziska Friessnigg, Chairman of the Committee on Conferences,
introduced the Committee's report on the pattern of conferences
(document A/44/32), which contained draft resolutions on the
calendar of conferences, extending the discontinuance of summary
records and equal treatment of the Organization's official
languages.
Eugeniusz Wyzner, Under-Secretary-General for Conference Services
and Special Assignments, introduced the report of the
Secretary-General on the equal treatment of all official
languages of the United Nations (document A/44/502).
Reports on the representation of organizations of the United
Nations system at conferences and meetings (documents A/43/456
and A/44/135) were introduced by Ivan Kojic, Inspector of the
Joint Inspection Unit (JIU).
Statements on financial reports, audited financial statements and
reports of the Board of Auditors were made by representatives of
Egypt, the United Republic of Tanzania and Ghana.
A representative of the United Nations Development Programme
(UNDP) spoke in response to earlier statements on the Board of
Auditors' financial reports. Statements on those reports were
made by the representatives of India and France and by Luis
Maria Gomez, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Administration
and Management and Assistant Secretary-General for Programme
Planning, Budget and Finance.
When the Committee meets next at 10 a.m. on Monday, 9 October, it
will continue its examination of financial reports and of the
pattern of conferences.
Committee Work Programme
The Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) meets this
afternoon to begin consideration of the pattern of conferences
and continue consideration of financial reports, audited
financial statements and reports of the Board of Auditors (for
background see Press Releases GA/AB/2588 of 2 October and
GA/AB/2589 of 4 October).
Pattern of Conferences
The Committee has before it the report of the Committee on
Conferences (document A/42/32), containing three draft
resolutions recommended for General Assembly approval.
By draft resolution A, the Assembly would be asked to approve the
draft calendar of conferences and meetings for the biennium
1990-1991 submitted by the Committee on Conferences; to
authorize the Committee on Conferences to make adjustments that
might be necessary as a result of this year's Assembly action;
and to urge United Nations organs which did not make adequate use
of conference-servicing resources to consider reducing the
number of meetings requested in the future.
By draft resolution B, the Assembly would be asked to extend for
another year the experimental period during which no subsidiary
organ of the Assembly, with the exception of seven bodies, shall
be entitled to summary records.
By draft resolution C, the Assembly would be asked to request
the Secretary-General to continue to implement resolution
42/207/C, dealing with respect for equal treatment of the
official languages of the United Nations.
Also before the Committee was the Secretary-General's report on
efforts to implement the resolution for equal treatment of
languages (document A/44/502). The report stated that
provisions of the proposed programme budget for the biennium
1990-1991 were intended to ensure adequate conference-servicing
facilities, assuming that the demand for conferences services
would not increase significantly.
The Committee also has reports by the Joint Inspection Unit (JIU)
on the pattern of conferences (documents A/43/586 and
A/44/135). The JIU has recommended that only one person per
United Nations department attend meetings
Introduction of Report
EUGENIUSZ WYZNER, Under-Secretary-General for Conference Services
and Special Assignments, introduced the report of the
Secretary-General on the implementation of resolution 42/207 C
on equal treatment of all official languages of the United
Nations (document A/44/502). He said recent international
developments had increased the Organization's peace-making and
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