The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 46/180 of 19 December 1991, 47/227
of 8 April 1993 and 48/207 of 21 December 1993,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General and
the report of the Acting Executive Director of the United Nations
Institute for Training and Research on the activities of the Institute,
Recognizing the growing importance and relevance of training
within the United Nations and the new training requirements of
all Member States,
Considering the relevance of research activities related
to training undertaken by the United Nations Institute for Training
and Research within its mandate,
Acknowledging the importance for the restructured Institute
of continuing to develop closer relationships with relevant national
and international institutions in industrialized and developing
countries in order to enable the United Nations system to respond
to training needs in the most cost-effective manner and in the
best interest of all Member States,
Taking note with interest of the steps taken to complete
the restructuring process of the Institute with a view to making
it the dynamic training institution that it was originally intended
to be,
1. Takes note of the recommendations of the Board of Trustees
of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research;
2. Urges Member States to make voluntary contributions
to the restructured Institute, in particular to its General Fund,
so as to assure its viability and the further development of its
training programmes;
3. Reaffirms that the funding of all the administrative
budget and the training programmes of the Institute shall be covered
from voluntary contributions, donations, special-purpose grants
and executing agency overheads;
4. Requests the Secretary-General to provide for the Institute
in the future, and retroactively since the move of its headquarters
to Geneva, office space in that city as well as administrative
and logistic support at fair costs, based on the costs borne by
the United Nations itself and ensuring an equal treatment with
other United Nations entities;
5. Also requests the Secretary-General to provide for the
Institute at fair costs, based on the costs borne by the United
Nations itself and ensuring an equal treatment with other United
Nations entities, liaison office space in New York, and, in this
context, requests the Board of Trustees to give the necessary
attention to these matters with a view to avoiding any negative
financial impact on the Institute;
6. Invites the United Nations Institute for Training and
Research and the United Nations and its funds and programmes,
including the United Nations Development Programme, to develop
and intensify their collaboration, with the aim of making the
Institute an important provider of training and training-related
research for the United Nations system and to avoid unnecessary
duplication of work;
7. Requests the Secretary-General to strengthen, in accordance
with their respective mandates, the cooperation between the Institute
and other qualified national and international institutions, including
the International Training Centre of the International Labour
Organization at Turin, Italy;
8. Also requests the Secretary-General to submit a report
to the General Assembly at its fiftieth session on the measures
taken in the implementation of the present resolution. .