paragraph 4 (a) of resolution 31/140, section I, which allowed the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Programme to meet at the United Nations Office at Geneva, although it was based in New York. The delegation also objected to paragraph 4 (f) of that resolution, which allowed regional commissions to meet outside their headquarters, pointing out that meetings facilities at the headquarters of a number of regional commissions had recently been modernized. 49. The Committee decided to recommend to the General Assembly the draft resolution contained in section I of the present report. III. CONTROL AND LIMITATION OF DOCUMENTATION Feasibility of instituting an abbreviated form of summary record 50. During its 1984 session, the Committee on Conferences examined abbreviated summary records, two to three pages in length, prepared on an experimental basis by the Secretariat and ccmpared them with the original summary records on which they were based. While the abbreviated records were acceptable to some delegations, others believed that the reduced content of the abbreviated versions would not adequately reflect the proceedings. The Committee agreed that the Chairman should write to the relevant United Nations organs describing the Committee's work on that matter and requesting their views on which form of record, the summary or the experimental abbreviated summary, was more appropriate for their own purposes. 51. By paragraph 2 of its resolution 39/68 D, the General Assembly noted that the Committee on Conferences would further examine, after consulting with United Nations organs entitled to receive summary records, the relative suitability of summary records as now prepared and the abbreviated summary records prepared by the Secretariat on an experimental basis, with a view to reporting to the Assembly at its fortieth session. 52. Accordingly, in 1985, the Acting Chairman of the Committee on Conferences 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the administrative and procedural aspects of the United Nations, specifically the Committee on Conferences and its work on documentation and summary records. While it does not directly relate to a specific field or sector, it is likely related to the overall functioning and efficiency of the UN.

**Category**
International Relations, Administration