Requests the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to improve the analytical procedure leading to a more transparent presentation of all sections of the programme budget; reiterates the importance of the programme planning and budgeting cycle and, in that context, the necessity of reinforcing the monitoring and evaluation capacity of the UN so as to provide Member States with a basis for more informed decision-making; decides that the relevant conclusions and recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination, as well as the related portions of its report, should be brought to the attention of its Main Committees for information; requests the Secretary-General to issue the regulations and rules governing programme planning, the programme aspects of the budget, the monitoring of implementation and the methods of evaluation in the same format as the Financial Regulations and Rules of the UN and to annex to the regulations and rules the text of the resolutions and decisions on programme planning adopted by the General Assembly from its 37th to its 39th session.

Adopted without vote, 121st plenary meeting

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Adopted at the 121st plenary meeting, 18 Dec. 1985.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 40th session, 17 September-18 December 1985, 28 April-9 May and 20 June 1986. - A/40/53. - 1986. - p. 282-283. - (GAOR, 40th sess., Suppl. no. 53).