Requests the Secretary-General to assist and encourage the Executive Secretary of ESCAP to pursue within existing resources the establishment of a depository centre for UN human rights materials within the Commission at Bangkok, the function of which would include the collection, processing and dissemination of such materials in the Asian and Pacific region; requests the Secretary-General to ensure a continuing flow of human rights materials to the library of ESCAP at Bangkok for appropriate dissemination in the region; takes note of the general consensus among participants in the training course that it would be useful for the better identification of existing measures and the dissemination of materials to establish a resource library that would collect and disseminate laws, documents and other publications throughout the region.

Adopted without vote, 75th meeting

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Adopted at the 75th plenary meeting, 8 Dec. 1988.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 43rd session, Volume 1, 20 September-22 December 1988. - A/43/49. - 1989. - p. 213. - (GAOR, 43rd sess., Suppl. no. 49).