30 July 1992

41st plenary meeting

Activities of the United Nations system in the Baltic States and the Commonwealth of Independent States

The Economic and Social Council,

Recalling decision 92/43, adopted on 26 May 1992 by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme at its thirty-ninth session, and decision 1992/19, adopted by the Executive Board of the United Nations Children's Fund at its regular session of 1992, concerning the activities of the United Nations system in the Baltic States and the Commonwealth of Independent States,

Reaffirming the importance it attaches to an integrated United Nations system approach to, and presence in, the region,

1. Requests the various bodies of the United Nations system:

(a) In consultation with the Administrative Committee on Coordination and the Joint Consultative Group on Policy, to reach an early agreement that will ensure such an integrated approach and presence in the countries concerned, including common administrative support arrangements;

(b) In providing assistance to the countries concerned, to take account of the national priorities of those countries and of the comparative advantages of each of the bodies of the United Nations system;

2. Invites the Secretary-General to prepare a report on ways of ensuring such an integrated approach and presence in the countries concerned and the steps already taken to do so, which would be annexed to the report for the triennial comprehensive policy review of operational activities of the United Nations system at the forty-seventh session of the General Assembly.