Invites the Institute to strengthen its cooperation with other UN institutes and relevant, national, regional and international institutes; requests that relevant measures be taken by the Board of Trustees of the Institute with respect to the regularization of the post of Executive Director of the Institute; urges the States that interrupted their voluntary contributions to consider resuming them in the light of the progress made in the restructuring and revitalization of the Institute; takes note of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit on the relocation of the Institute and the subsequent decision of the Board of Trustees of the Institute to postpone any decision on the possibility of relocating the Institute; requests the Secretary-General to explore in consultation with the Executive Director of the Institute, as well as with the heads of UN programmes and funds, ways and modalities of cooperation, in order to better define the role of the Institute in the fields of training, research and methodology, assessment and capacity-building within the UN system; requests the Joint Inspection Unit to prepare a study, as recommended by the Unit in its report, on the training institution programmes and activities of the UN system.

Adopted without vote, 86th meeting

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Adopted at the 86th plenary meeting, 16 Dec. 1996.