review the manner in which UNHCR was fvinded within the mechanism of the Sub-Committee on Administrative and Financial Matters. 8. After stripping programmes down to a minimum, UNHCR still did not know whether sufficient financial resources would be available to enable it to perform its mission. The considerable efforts undertaken, in teirms of structural changes made at Headquarters, review of the field establishment, staff reduction and rational fund utilization should be balanced against the needs of refugees. 9. Time was to implement those measures and the confidence of the Executive Committee was required to enable UNHCR to get on with the task of protecting and providing assistance to the millions of refugees for whom it had been made responsible. Accordingly, he requested that the extraordinary session of the Executive Committee should approve the budget of $378.9 million for its 1990 General Programmes. 10. Mr. LYMAN (United States of America) indicated his country's support for a 1990 General Programme budget of $378 million which, he understood, would make it possible to liquidate the previous year's $38 million deficit and to balance the books by the end of 1990. His country's remaining reservations in no way detracted from its support for the leadership and staff of UNHCR. 11. His delegation would like the budget to indicate country and line-item levels; future Executive Committee decisions on budget matters must be based on the level of budgetary information. Such detail would induce donors not to earmark contributions within the General Programmes since they would know that certain high-priority programmes, were included fully within the total. The information provided had not dispelled his delegation's concern about whether sufficient funds had been allocated to countries where the bulk of refugees resided, and it endorsed the proposal by the Nordic coiintries that developed 
**Analysis**
The text appears to be discussing the budget and financial matters of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which suggests that it is related to humanitarian aid and relief efforts. The text mentions the protection and assistance of refugees, which further supports this hypothesis.

**Category**
Humanitarian aid and relief