text: consultant services for the Division for Palestinian Rights corresponded to the actual work to be undertaken in the course of the biennium or if it resulted merely from a revaluation of the resource base. 33. Mr. BEGIN (Director, Budget Division) confirmed that it was a revaluation of the appropriations for 1982-1983, which had amounted to $14,800. According to current norms, that amount corresponded to three consultant work-months. 34. The CHAIRMAN said that the question of the transfer of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination from section 4 to section 1 of the proposed programme budget would be examined when the Committee took up section 4. 35. If there was no objection, he would consider that the Committee endorsed the recommendations on section 1 of the proposed programme budget made by CPC in its report (A/38/38, Part II). 36. It was so decided. 37. The CHAIRMAN said that a separate vote had been requested on the prov1s1on of $80,400 for the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (1A.7) and the provision of $2,118,200 for the Division for Palestinian Rights (1B.3(b)). I ... A/C.5/38/SR.l9 English Page 8 38. Mr. EL-SAFTY (Egypt), explaining his vote before the vote, said that he would vote for the appropriations in question. For him, it was not a case of voting on the substance of the question but of knowing whether the amounts requested by the Secretary-General were appropriate. The resources allocated to activities concerning Palestinian rights had diminished by almost one half and, in addition, as was indicated in table 1.21 of the proposed programme budget, the estimates for the Division for Palestinian Rights showed a 4 per cent reduction, which, in the framework of an overall growth rate of only 0.7 per cent, reflected a real decline of resources. 
analysis: The text appears to be discussing the allocation of funds and budgeting for the United Nations' activities related to the Palestinian people, specifically the Division for Palestinian Rights and the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. The language used is formal and bureaucratic, suggesting that it is a meeting record or report on a budgetary matter.