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Training and research
Date of consideration:
15 November 2005 (PM)
Second Committee Report
(59th session):
A/59/490
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(a) United Nations
Institute for Training and Research
Date of consideration:
15 November 2005 (PM)
Second Committee Report (59th session):
A/59/490/Add.1
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Document:
A/60/304
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Report of the Secretary-General on
the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (Mandate: GA res.
59/252, para. 12)
Summary:
The United
Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) was
established in 1965, pursuant to a decision taken by the
General Assembly at its eighteenth session (resolution 1934
(XVIII)) as an autonomous institution within the framework of
the United Nations for the purpose of enhancing the
effectiveness of the United Nations in maintaining peace and
security and promoting economic and social development through
training and research programmes. The Executive Director of
the Institute is appointed by the Secretary-General after
consultation with the Board of Trustees. The UNITAR statute
provides that the Executive Director, in consultation with the
Board of Trustees, reports through the Secretary-General to
the General Assembly, to the Economic and Social Council and,
as appropriate, to other United Nations bodies.
The General
Assembly considered the question at its forty-fifth to
fifty-eighth sessions (resolutions 45/219, 46/180, 47/227,
48/207, 49/125, 50/121, 51/188, 52/206, 53/195, 54/229,
55/208, 56/208, 57/268 and 58/223).
At its
fifty-ninth session, the General Assembly reaffirmed the
relevance of UNITAR; renewed its appeal to all Governments to
give the Institute their generous financial and other support;
noted with appreciation the one-time provision to cancel the
Institute's past debts decided upon in section XIV of
resolution 58/272; stressed the need for continued
consideration of the issues related to the Institute's rent,
rental rates and maintenance costs, taking into account its
financial situation, with a view to its expeditious
resolution; and requested the Secretary-General to report to
it at its sixtieth session on the implementation of the
resolution, including details on the status of contributions
to and the financial situation of the Institute, and decided
to consider the issue of the periodicity of the agenda item
entitled "Training and research" at its sixtieth session
(resolution 59/252) (see also resolution 59/276, sect. X,
adopted under item 108).
(b) United Nations
System Staff College in Turin, Italy
Date of consideration:
15 November 2005 (PM)
Document:
A/60/328
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Report of the Secretary-General on
the United Nations System Staff College in Turin, Italy (Mandate: GA res.
58/224, para. 8)
Summary:
At its fifty-fifth
session, in 2000, the General Assembly, recalling the decision
taken by the Secretary-General in January 1966 to establish in
Turin, Italy, the United Nations Staff College project for an
initial period of five years, decided to establish the United
Nations System Staff College, as at 1 January 2002, after the
approval of its statute; and also decided that a biennial
report should be submitted to the Assembly on the work,
activities and accomplishments of the College (resolution
55/207).
At the resumed
fifty-fifth session, in July 2001, the General Assembly
approved the statute of the Staff College and decided that the
first biennial report should be submitted to the Assembly at
its fifty-eighth session (resolution 55/278).
At its fifty-eighth
session, the General Assembly took note with appreciation of
the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the first
report of the Director of the College on its work, activities
and accomplishments; and invited the United Nations System
Chief Executives Board for Coordination, in accordance with
article X of the statute, to make a recommendation that the
report of the Secretary-General submitted pursuant to
article IV, paragraph 5, of the statute be submitted to the
Economic and Social Council rather than to the General
Assembly (resolution 58/224).
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