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200 General Aasembly-Tblrty..aeeond Seuion principies and guidelines for the use of experts and consultants in the United Nations, provided, ínter alía, that: (a) The Secretary-General should ensure that ex- penditure far consultant services is maintained within the approved figure far 1974-1975 and that no sup- plementary estimates are presented, ( b) The estimates under this heading in future biennial programme budgets should be prepared with determined restraint, with a view to achieving reduc- tions in the funds requested far this field of activities, Noting with concern that the aggregate appropria- tion for experts and consultants proposed by the Sec- retary-General far the biennium 197 8-1979 totals $11,423,000, compared with approved appropriations for 1974-1975 of $6,784,000, Noting that the commendable reduction in proposed expenditure on consultant services envisaged in the estimates for the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the Secretariat, in section 5A of the pro- gramme budget far the biennium 1978-1979, arising from greater utilization of staff resources available within the Secretariat and highly selective recourse to external assistance, 74 has not been reflected in the esti- mates far certain other budget sectors, 1. Requests the Secretary-General to re-examine proposed expenditure on experts and consultants in 1978-1979 fallowing approval of the programme bud- get with a view to achieving savings in the aggregate allocation far such activities and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its thirty-third session; 2. Further requests the Secretary-General to ensure that no supplementary estimates are presented for ex- penditure on experts and consultants during the bien- nium 1978-1979. 110th plenary meetinR 21 December 1977 32/210. Form of presentation of the United Nations budget The General Assembly, Having considered the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1978-1979,75 Taking into account that, by its resolution 3043 (XXVII) of 19 December 1972, it approved on an experimental basis the new form of presentation of the United Nations budget directed towards the estab- lishment of programme budgeting, Recalling the statement in the second preambular paragraph of that resolution that the new forro of presentation constitutes a useful basis for proceeding towards the introduction of a system of programme budgeting in the United Nations, Recalling also the decision in that resolution to keep under continuous review the progress achieved in the implementation by the Secretary-General of the new forro of presentation of the United Nations budget, Recognizing that an over-all view of the programme budget is essential far a global analysis thereof, 74 Jbid., Thirty-second Session, Supplement No. 6 (A/32/6 and Corr.1 and 2), vol. I, para. 5A.1. 75 fbid., Supplement No. 6 (A/32/6 and Corr.1 and 2). Requests the Secretary-General to endeavour, in preparing the proposed programme budget far the bien- nium 1980-1981, to improve its forro, content and structure, taking into account the opinions expressed and suggestions made in the Fifth Committee during the general de bate on the proposed programme budget far the biennium 1978-1979, and in particular to submit a summary of the proposed budget containing, ínter alía, the following infarmation as far as practicable: (a) The information contained in the foreword and annexes of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1978-1979; ( b) Additional relevant information, including that proposed in chapter I of the first report of the Ad- visory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the proposed programme budget far the biennium 1978-1979;76 (e) Expenditure by programme and subprogramme in absolute figures; (d) Expenditure by programme and organizational unit; (e) Expenditure by programme and object of expenditure. 110th plenary meeting 21 December 1977 32/211. Presentation of the United Nations budget The General Assembly, Having noted that, during the consideration of the itero entitled "Proposed programme budget far the biennium 1978-1979", and especially during the gen- eral debate in the Fifth Committee 011 that ítem, im- portant problems of principie and method were raised, Having observed that there is a large measure of agreement concerning the interest in sorne of these problems and the need to study them further with a view to improving budgetary procedures in the light of the views expressed in the Fifth Committee, Recalling, in that connexion, the statement made by the Chairman of the Fifth Committee at the Commit- tee's 16th meeting, 77 as well as the relevant comments of the Committee far Programme and Co-ordination in its report on the work of its seventeenth session78 and the relevant passages of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Ques- tions, 79 I. Considers that the most important of the afore- mentioned pro blems relate to: (a) The need to apply effectively the provisions of General Assembly resolutions 3534 (XXX) of 17 December 1975 and 31/93 of 14 December 1976 concerning programmes, projects and activities that are obsolete, of marginal usefulness or ineffective; ( b) The need to assess more accurately the re- sources required far programme implementation and 76 [bid., Supplemenl No. 8 (A/32/8 and Corr.1). 77 !bid., Thirty-second Session, Fifth Committee, 16th meet- ing, paras. 95-101. 78 !bid., Thirty-second Session, Supplement No. 38 (A/32/38). 79 !bid., Supplement No. 8 (A/32/8 and Corr. 1 ), paras. 3-42.

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