Merger of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women and the United Nations Development Fund for Women.

Takes note of the questions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and its conclusion that further studies were necessary before a definite decision could be made on the question of the proposed merger; requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Economic and Social Council an updated report which would contain, inter alia, the information requested in Council decision 1993/235 and General Assembly resolution 48/111, as well as the additional information requested by the Advisory Committee; recommends that the General Assembly request the Economic and Social Council to re-examine the issue taking into account the deliberations of the Commission on the Status of Women, at its 39th session, the 4th World Conference on Women and the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions concerning the institutional arrangements in the UN system for the advancement of women; recommends that the General Assembly take a final decision on the proposed merger of International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women and the UN Development Fund for Women at its 50th session.

Adopted without vote, 52nd meeting

Adopted at the 52nd plenary meeting, 3 Nov. 1994.
In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1994, New York, 25 January and 3 and 4 February 1994; resumed organizational session for 1994, New York, 6 June 1994; substantive session of 1994, New York, 27 June-29 July 1994; second special session of 1994, New York, 16 September 1994; resumed substantive session of 1994, New York, 3 and 4 November 1994 - E/1994/94 - p. 62-63. - (ESCOR, 1994, Suppl. no. 1).