text: UNITED NATIONS A GeneralAssembly Distr. GENERAL A/C.5/45/2 ~4September 1990 -sa wORIGINAL: ENGLISH Forty-fifth session FIFTH COMMITTEE Item122oftheprovisional agenda* PROGRAMME BUDGET FORTHEBIENNIUM 1990-1991 Revised estimates undersections 3,13, 27,31andIncome Section 1 Report oftheSecretary-General INTRODUCTION 1.Insection Vofitsresolution 44/201 Bof21December 1989,theGeneral Assembly accepted theestimates andproposal oftheSecretary-General for section 3C(Namibia) oftheproposed programme budget forthebiennium 1990-1991, asendorsed bytheCommittee forProgramme andCo-ordination andtheAdvisory Committee onAdministrative andBudgetary Questions, notedthatthe Secretary-General wouldsubmit revised estimates forthatsection, andrequested himtodosonolaterthanattheforty-fifth session oftheGeneral Assembly. 2.Inthesameresolution, theSecretary-General wasrequested, takingfull account ofthepriority attached bytheGeneral Assembly toactivities against apartheid andoftheviewsexpressed byMember Statesattheforty-fourth session, toensure optimum utilization ofresources within section 3,including the possibility ofredeployment ofstaffresources, whensubmitting revised estimates andpriorities forsection 3totheGeneral Assembly atitsforty-fifth session. 3.Itmayalsoberecalled thatinsection 27(Public information) ofhis proposed programme budget forthebiennium 1990-1991, 1/theSecretary-General statedthattheestimates relating toinformation activities onNamibia were provisional andthatrevised estimates wouldbesubmitted totheGeneral Assembly *A/45/150 andCorr.1. 90-22701 1925b(E) /... Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld Library-~---------------- A/C.5/45/2 English Page2 onthebasisofdecisions thattheAssembly mightadoptinconnection withthe question ofNamibia. 4.Atitssummer 1990session, theEconomic andSocial Council revim ...edandtook noteofresolution 682(XXV)concerning improving thetechnical facilities ofthe Economic Commission forAfrica (ECA)adopted bytheCommission atitstwenty-fifth session (15-19 May1990). Underthetermsofthatresolution theSecretary-General wasurgedtoprovide thesecretariat ofECAwiththenecessary office automation andcomputing equipment foritsoptimal functioning andforbetter service to MemberStates. 5.PartIofthepresent document reviews thebudgetary effects ofthewinding downofactivities relating tothequestion ofNamibia whicharecurrently covered ,'~dersubsection 3Coftheprogramme budget forthebiennium 1990-1991. Part11 c0ntains revised estimates forsubsection 3B(Department forSpecial Political Questions, Regional Co-operation, Decolonization andTrusteeship). PartIII contains revised estimates undersubsection 3D(Centre against bP.9.rj:_Q~.i~l). 6.PartIVreflects theeffects ofthe acce~sion ofNamibia toindependence on theinformation activities onNamibia falling undersubprogramme 1(Promotional services) ofchapter 9(Public information) ofthemedium-term planfortheperiod 1984-1991 asrevised andextended, forwhichresources areprovided under section 27oftheprogramme budget forthe1990-1991 biennium. 7.PartVofthereport contains proposals towards theimplementation in1991of anoffice automation project forECA. 8.PartVIofthereport summarizes theneteffect oftheserevised estimates for theprogramme budget forthebiennium 1990-1991, namely anetreduction of $8,093,200. I.BUDGETARY EFFECTS OFTHEPHASING OUTOFACTIVITIES RELATING TOPROGR.~E 3(NAMIBIA) OFCHAPTER 4(POLITICAL AFFAIRS, TRUSTEESHIP ANDDECOLONIZATION) OFTHEMEDIUM-TERM PLl>.NFOR THEPERIOD 1984-1989 (EXTENDED TO1991) CURRENTLY COVERED
analysis: The text appears to be focused on the budgetary aspects of the United Nations' activities, specifically in relation to the question of Namibia and the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA). The report discusses the phasing out of activities related to Namibia, the need for office automation and computing equipment for ECA, and the effects of Namibia's independence on information activities. These themes suggest that the category should be related to international relations, governance, or administration.