A/RES/58/244 GA

United Nations A/RES/58/244 General Assembly Distr.: General 19 February 2004 Fifty-eighth session Agenda item 110 03 50916 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2003 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/501)] 58/244. Future operation of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women The General Assembly, Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject, in particular resolutions 55/219 of 23 December 2000, 56/125 of 19 December 2001 and 57/175 of 18 December 2002, Recalling also that, in its resolution 56/125, it decided to establish a working group mandated to make recommendations to the General Assembly on the future operation of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, Reaffirming its resolution 57/311 of 18 June 2003 on the financial situation of the Institute, Welcoming Economic and Social Council resolution 2003/57 of 24 July 2003, in which the Council decided to amend articles III and IV of the statute of the Institute, Welcoming also the efforts and the consistency in the work of the Working Group on the Future Operation of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women in promoting a comprehensive approach to the revitalization and strengthening of the Institute, which has led to the adoption of important institutional and political changes that are contributing to the strengthening of the Institute, 1. Welcomes the report of the Working Group on the Future Operation of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women,1 in which the Working Group, inter alia, reaffirmed the mandate of the Institute in the field of gender equality and the advancement of women and stressed the need for it to be reformed and revitalized, as recommended in its previous report2 and endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 57/175; _______________ 1 A/58/540. 2 A/57/330 and Add.1. A/RES/58/244 2 2. Decides to continue monitoring the implementation of the measures recommended by the Working Group in its report,2 in close consultation with the Secretary-General; 3. Stresses the critical importance of voluntary financial contributions by Member States to the United Nations Trust Fund for the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women to enable it to carry out its mandate; 4. Urges Member States to make voluntary contributions to the Trust Fund, particularly during this critical transitional period; 5. Decides to continue to provide its full support to the current efforts to revitalize the Institute and, in this regard, to provide funds complementary to the existing ones, if needed, to ensure that the Institute will have adequate resources to function for a period of one year and to submit its report to the General Assembly as requested in resolution 57/311, in the light of the delay in appointing a Director to implement a feasible work programme and fund-raising activities; 6. Also decides to request the Working Group to continue monitoring the implementation of the recommendations and measures contained in its report2 until the new executive board convenes its first session; 7. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session on the implementation of the present resolution. 79th plenary meeting 23 December 2003

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