48th plenary meeting

27 July 1982

Convening of an International Conference on Population in 1984

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling its resolution 1981/87 of 25 November 1981, in which it decided to convene an International Conference on Population in 1984,

Recalling also its resolution 1982/7 of 30 April 1982 concerning the status of preparations for the Conference,

1. Decides to accept, with gratitude, the offer of the Government of Mexico to act as host to the International Conference on Population in 1984;

2. Requests the Secretary-General of the Conference, after consultation with the Government of Mexico, to report to the Council, not later than at its first regular session of 1983, on the dates, site and other arrangements proposed for the Conference;

3. Welcomes the offer by the Government of India to act as host to the Expert Group Meeting on Fertility and the Family, to be held at New Delhi towards the end of 1982, and requests the Secretary-General of the Conference, in consultation with the Government of India, to finalize the arrangements for that meeting;

4. Also welcomes the offer by the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany to support the holding of the Expert Group Meeting on Population, Resources, Environment and Development in early 1983 and requests the Secretary-General of the Conference to finalize the arrangements for that meeting;

5. Recommends that the General Assembly, at its thirty-seventh session, should approve the necessary expenses for the preparation of the Conference in 1983, bearing in mind that the total financial cost of the Conference has been estimated by the Secretary-General at $2.3 million and that the total amount of resources to be provided from the United Nations regular budget for the Conference should not exceed $800,000, which will come to the maximum extent possible from existing resources;

6. Requests the Secretary-General of the Conference to report to the Council at its resumed second regular session of 1982 on the status of his efforts to raise extrabudgetary resources for the Conference;

7. Decides to schedule the open-ended session of the Population Commission, which will serve as the Preparatory Committee for the Conference, in January 1984, immediately preceded by the twenty-second session of the Population Commission, and to consider the report of the Preparatory Committee at the first regular session of 1984 of the Council;

8. Invites the regional commissions to consider, at their annual sessions in 1984, the report of the Preparatory Committee for the Conference on its meeting in 1984, with a view to formulating suggestions and recommendations for further implementation of the World Population Plan of Action at the regional level, and to transmit those suggestions and recommendations to the Conference for its consideration.