other areas, particularly by minimizing staff travel expenses. 14. Mrs. BEREHGUER (Brazil) commended the Secretary-General of the Conference for his view of the role to be played by New York, particularly where substantive issues were concerned and stressed that New York must be kept informed of the activities carried out at Geneva and Nairobi. With regard to the legal working group, she still did not see how the Fifth Committee could authorize the Secretary-General to incur obligations for that activity, on which the Preparatory Committee had yet to take a decision, and she wished to have additional information on the subject. 15. Having received no response to her questions on public information, she once again pointed out that paragraph 17 placed too much emphasis on the environment to the exclusion of anything else, and that activities in that area should be consistent with the decisions taken by the Preparatory Committee. As for the A/C.5/.44/SR.63 English Page 5 (Mrs. Berenquer. Brazil) resources earmarked for information activities, she wondered why it had been decided, without the agreement of the Preparatory Committee and contrary to the estimates given at the organizational session of that body, that two thirds of the appropriations requested would be used during the biennium 1990-1991 and only one third in 1992, the year of the Conference. 16. Mr. ELGHOUAYEL (Tunisia) said that the question of funding was extremely delicate, since the Conference could not be financed entirely from the contingency fund without affecting the regular activities of the Organization; given the importance of the Conference, there was no question of achieving any savings in the sense of General Assembly resolution 41/213. He proposed that the Committee should take the Advisory Committee's proposals as a basis for developing some sort of a 
**Analysis**
The text discusses the funding and budgeting of the United Nations Conference, specifically the allocation of resources for various activities, including staff travel expenses, public information, and the legal working group. The speakers also mention the importance of consistency with decisions taken by the Preparatory Committee. These topics suggest that the category is related to the administrative and financial aspects of international organizations.

**Category**
International trade, Employment