United Nations University : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Takes note of the continuing efforts of the UN University and its research and training centres and programmes to generate and share knowledge to address the pressing global problems of human survival, development and welfare, and encourages the University to intensify its communication and dialogue with Member States; encourages the international community to provide voluntary contributions in order to ensure a sound funding base for the activities of the University; requests the Secretary-General to continue to encourage other bodies of the UN system to utilize more fully the capacity of the University for mobilizing a worldwide network of researchers to assist the UN; requests the University to make renewed efforts to identify the critical areas where University research is most needed by other UN organizations and to carry out research that yields effective outcomes contributing to policymaking in the UN system; takes note with appreciation of the efforts made by the University to streamline and improve the administrative management at its headquarters in Japan, requests that such reform measures be continued to increase the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the University's operations; welcomes the planned external evaluation of the University after its 13th year of operation, and requests that the evaluation be undertaken to thoroughly review how and to what extent the University and its activities have met the original mission assigned to the University; decides that, instead of being submitted in 2008, the report of the Council of the UN University and other reports on the work of the University shall be submitted biennially to the Economic and Social Council, rather than to the General Assembly for its consideration, beginning in 2009.

Adopted without vote, 83rd plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 61st sess., Suppl. no. 49.