text: UNITED NATIONS A General Assembly Distr. GENERAL AlC.5/45/6 9October 1990 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH ww- Forty-fifth session FIFTH COMMITTEE Agenda items118,60(d)and(e) PROGRAMME BUDGET FORTHEBIENNIUM 1990-1991 REVIEW OFTHEIMPLEMENTATION OFTHERECOMMENDATIONS ANDDECISIONS ADOPTED BYTHEGENERAL ASSEMBLY ATITSTENTH SPECIAL SESSION Advisory BoardonDisarmament Matters United Nations Institute forDisarmament Research Request forsubvention totheInstitute resulting from therecommendations oftheBoardofTrustees ofth~ United Nations Institute forDisarmpment Research contained indocument A/45/392 Note~he Secretary-General 1.Inaccordance withtheprovlslons ofparagraph 3ofarticle VIIIofthe Statute oftheUnited Nations Institute forDisarmament Research (UNIDIR), 11the recommendation bytheBoardofTrustees oftheInstitute forasubvention for1991 of$220,000 fromtheregular budget oftheUnited Nations ishereby transmitted to theGeneral Assembly forapproval. 2.TheAdvisory BoardonDisarmament Matters, initscapacity asBoardof Trustees ofUNIDIR, adopted the1991draftprogramme ofworkandproposed budget estimates oftheInstitute. IITheBoardrecalled that,atitsforty-fourth session, theGeneral Assembly approved anappropriation of$440,000 under section 2B,Department forDisarmament Affairs, asasubvention toUNIDIR fromthe regular budget forthebiennium 1990-1991. Accordingly, anamount of$220,000 has beenearmarked fortheyear1990andtheremaining $220,000 for1991. Inkeeping withtheobservation oftheAdvisory Committee onAdministrative andBudgetary Questions that,notwithstanding theinclusion ofthatamountintotheprogramme budget forthebiennium 1990-1991, aformal request forasubvention for1991would 90-25468 1813i(E) I .•. Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld LibraryAlC.5/45/6 English Page2 havetobemadetotheGeneral Assembly, theBoardrecommended asubvention from theregular budget oftheUnited Nations amounting to$220,000 for1991. 3.Should theGeneral Assembly decide toapprove therecommendation oftheBoard ofTrustees ofUNIDIR, noadditional appropriation wouldberequired under section 2Boftheprogramme budget forthebiennium 1990-1991. 4.Inaccordance withGeneral Assembly resolution 44/201, partB,section IV entitled "Subvention fromtheregular budget totheUnited Nations Institute for Disarmament Research", theSecretary-General isrequested, interalia,"toreview thequestion ofprogramme support costs" withregard totheInstitute. Inthis connection, basedonactual 1989work-load statistics onpr)gramme support services provided toUNIDIR bytheUnited Nations OfficeatGeneva, adetailed analysis and costing ofservices rendered wascarried out.Thatreviewindicates thatthe current rate(5percent)applied toexpenditures undertheTrustFundforUNIDIR forprogramme support costenables UNIDIR toreimburse theUnited Nations adequately forthefinancial andpersonnel services provided byUNOGtothe Institute. 5.Inthereport oftheAdvisory BoardonDisarmament Matters initscapacity as BoardofTrustees ofUNIDIR (A/45/392, annexII),theBoard"noted with appreciation thevigorous efforts oftheDirector toencourage further voluntary contributions" ontheonehand,but"emphasized theimportance ofcontinuing inthe future theannual subvention fromtheregular budget oftheUnited Nations andthe needtomaintain theothersupport arrangements attheircurrent level" onthe otherhand. TheSecretary-General concurs withtheobservations madebytheBoard, ontheunderstanding thateveryeffortwillcontinue tobemadebyUNIDIR to
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