27 July 1990

37th Plenary Meeting

1990/82. Operational activities for development

The Economic and Social Council,

1. Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General on the operational activities of the United Nations system, the report of the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund, the extract from the report of the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme on its organizational meeting for 1990, its special session and its thirty-seventh session, the report of the Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund on the implications for population programmes of the Amsterdam Declaration and on efforts to develop further the analysis of resource requirements for international population assistance and the fifteenth annual report of the Committee on Food Aid Policies and Programmes, and decides to transmit them to the General Assembly at its forty-fifth session for its consideration;

2. Requests the Director-General for Development and International Economic Co-operation to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-fifth session a precise and comprehensive schedule for the implementation of all the provisions of Assembly resolution 44/211 of 22 December 1989 that require action by the United Nations system, concentrating on those activities that in his view require priority attention.