Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Burundi

Notes the willingness of the authorities of Burundi to convene a further donor round table, and encourages the country's development partners to support the new Government with commensurate means and resources in the post-transition phase and through participation in the round table; requests the Ad Hoc Advisory Group to continue to follow closely the humanitarian situation and economic and social conditions, to examine the transition from relief to development in Burundi and the way in which the international community supports the process and to report to the Economic and Social Council at its substantive session in 2006; notes that the post-conflict recovery, reconstruction and rehabilitation are among the subjects being discussed in ongoing talks on UN reform; recognizes the importance of avoiding overlap and duplication with respect to existing mechanisms; decides that the work of the Ad Hoc Advisory Group on Burundi will be reviewed at the substantive session of 2006, with a view to considering whether to continue the mandate of the Advisory Group based on the Council's consideration of its report, which should be submitted no later than six weeks before the start of the substantive session of 2006, and of the situation prevailing in Burundi at that time.

Adopted without vote, 39th plenary meeting

In: Resolutions and decisions of the Economic and Social Council, organizational session for 2005, New York, 19 Jan., 4 Feb. and 1 and 31 Mar. 2005; resumed organizational session for 2005, New York, 27 and 28 Apr. and 9 June 2005; substantive session of 2005, New York, 29 June-27 July 2005; resumed substantive session of 2005, New York, 21 Oct. 2005 - E/2005/99 - p. 82 - (ESCOR, 2005, Suppl. no. 1).