Progress made in facilitating the relocation of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia to its permanent headquarters at Beirut

Progress made in facilitating the relocation of ESCWA to its permanent headquarters at Beirut

Expresses its appreciation for the plans prepared and the measures adopted by the secretariat of ESCWA, including the plan for the Commission's relocation to its permanent headquarters at Beirut in accordance with a timetable that will not interfere with the implementation of the programmes of the Commission and will take into consideration the needs of its staff; requests the authorities concerned within UN secretariat to examine the possibility of utilizing the skills of the local staff of the Commission in Amman in other areas within UN or of finding ways to compensate them.

Adopted without vote, 34th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 1997, New York, 23 Jan. and 4-7 Feb. 1997; resumed organizational session for 1997, New York, 1 and 2 May 1997; substantive session of 1997, Geneva, 30 June-25 July 1997; resumed substantive session of 1997, New York, 8 Oct. and 16 and 18 Dec. 1997 - E/1997/97 - p. 38 - (ESCOR, 1997, Suppl. no. 1).