A/RES/3048(XXVII) GA

Re11olution11 adopted on the reports of the Fifth Committee 107 1. Affirms the view of the Secretary-General that the guided tours are conceived primarily as a public in- formation service and as a means of informing visitors of the aims and activities of the United Nations; 2. Requests the Secretary-General to take appro- priate measures to strengthen the operation of the public services of the Office of Public Information in order to increase their effectiveness. 2116th plenary meeting 19 December 1972 3048 (XXVII). Use of travel funds The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the Joint Inspection Unit on the use of travel funds in the United Nations,112 and the comments thereon by the Secretary-General113 and the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,114 1. Confirms its resolution 2245 (XXI) of 20 De- cember 1966 in connexion with recommendations 1 and 2 contained in chapter VII of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit;1111 2. Concurs with the observations and conclusions of the Advisory Committee on Administrative aa<,l Budgetary Questions116 with regard to recommendations 3 to 10 contained in that chapter; 3. Decides that the recommendation of the Advi- sory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions with respect to sea travel on home leave111 should be implemented as from 1 January 1974. 2116th plenary meeting 19 December 1972 3049 (XXVII). The financial situation of the United Nations A The General Assembly, Recalling that the consensus adopted by the General Assembly at its nineteenth session118 states that the financial difficulties of the Organization should be solved through voluntary contributions by Member States, Recalling the urgent appeal by the Secretary-General at the 1331st plenary meeting of the General Assembly, on 1 September 1965, that voluntary contributions be so made and recalling that, subsequently, the Secretary- General established the United Nations Special Account, into which substantial voluntary contribu- tions were received and credited, Conscious of the background a~ainst which the Spe- cial Committee on the Financial Situation of the United Nations was established, namely, the growing recog.;, nition that the finances of the United Nations must be placed on a sound footing and that more than a 112 See A/8900. 11s See A/8900/Add.l. 114 A/8900/Add.2. 55 See also A/8900/ Add.2, paras. 4-8. 116A/8900/Add.2, paras. 9-18. 67 Ibid., para. 16. 118 Official Records of the General Assembly, Nineteenth Session, Annexes, annex No. 21, document A/5916, para. 2; and ibid., Plenary Meetings, 1331st meeting, paras. 3 and 4. decade had elapsed without that desired objective having been achieved, Taking note of the report of the Special Committee on the Financial Situation of the United Nations,r;9 especially paragraph 11, in which the Special Com- mittee requested the Secretary-General to ask Mem- ber States to review their payments pattern with a view to paying future contributions on time, and para- graph 19, which states that there was general agreement in the Special Committee that the major part of the deficit could be eliminated only by voluntary contribu- tions from Member States or by the cancellation of obligations included within the short-te~m deficit, 1. Urges all Member States to review their pay- ments pattern on contributions to the rl:&P.~r budget of the United Nations with a view to pay~.,future con- tributions on time; · 2. Requests the Secretary-General to solicit sugges- tions from Member States for amendments to the Finan- cial Regulations of the United Nations or to other instructions and procedures, which would have as their objective the achieving of a steady and timely cash flow in the payment of assessed contributions to the Organization, and to submit a report thereon for con- sideration by the General Assembly at its twenty- eighth session; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to establish a special account under regulation 6.6 of the Financial Regulations into which voluntary contributions may be paid and used for the purpose of clearing up the past financial difficulties of the United Nations and especially for resolving the short-term deficit of the Organization referred to in the report of the Special Committee on the Financial Situation of the United Nations, and to merge into this account the United Nations Special Account referred to above; 4. Requests all Member States and invites non- member States, as a matter of urgency, to make vol- untary contributions to this special account in cash or through the cancellation of obligations due from the United Nations or as the result of claims accepted by it; S. Requests the Secretary-General to consider, in consultation with Member States, ways and means of obtaining voluntary contributions; 6. Requests the Secretary-General to devise modal- ities for the purposes set forth in paragraphs 4 and 5 above, which in his opinion may be effective; 7. Requests the Secretary-General to report the resuJts achieved to the General Assembly at its twenty- eighth session. B The General Assembly, 2116th plenary meeting 19 December 1972 Taking note of the report of the Special Committee on the Financial Situation of the United Nations,80 Conscious of the urgent need to place the finances of the United Nations on a sound footing, Endorsing the conclusion of the Special Committee that a comprehensive solution is required for the finan- cial problems of the United Nations and that the re- 119 Ibid., Twenty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 29 (A/8729). 60 Ibid.

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