25 per cent or more of the resources allocated to them for each session over the previous three years in order to inform them of that fact and, in conformity with the wishes of the General Assembly, to offer consultations on adjusting the length of their sessions accordingly. 14. The correspondence resulting from this decision was examined by the Committee at its 1984 session (A/AC.172/96 and Add.1-3). At the same time, the Chairman held a series of informal meetings with some of the Chairmen with whom he had been in contact over that matter and reported thereon to the Committee. 15. On 25 March 1985, the Acting Chairman of the Committee on Conferences met with the Chairman of the Legal Sub-Committee of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space to discuss the Sub-Committee's past use of the conference-servicing resources allocated to it. The Chairman of that Sub-Committee agreed to make a statement to the Sub-Committee describing the meeting and stressing the importance of making the fullest possible use of the conference-servicing resources made available to the Sub-Committee. 16. A further meeting, between the Acting Chairman of the Committee on Conferences and the Chairman of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, took place in June 1985. The latter subsequently made a statement to the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, stressing the importance of punctual attendance at the Committee's meetings. 17. At its 231st meeting, on 27 August 1985, the Committee resumed discussion of this item on the basis of a Secretariat report containing statistics of bodies' meetings in New York and Geneva (A/AC.172/88/Add.3), and a number of proposals and suggestions were made. 18. One delegation proposed that the Secretary-General should be authorized to 
**Analysis**
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**Category**
International organizations, Science and technology