UNITED NATIONS (@pGeneral Aseembly Distr. GENERAI, A/40/7 36l0 October ORIGINAIJ:1985 ENGLISH Fortieth session Agenda item ?9 UNITED NATIONS NELIEF AND WORKS AGENCY FON PATESTINE NEFUGEES IN THE NEAR EAS? Rapporteur: !tr. Sverre BERCH aIOSANSEN (Norway) @NTENTS ACTIVITIES OF THE VIORKI NG GROUP DURING 1985 AINANCIAL SITUATION OF TTIRI{A @NCI,,UDING REMARKSI. INTRODUCTION A. Origin and background of ebe ir&crking Group B, Consideratlon of the report of the Worklng croup at thethirty-ninth eession of the General AssenblyParagraphs page 1-8 2 l-3 2 4-8 9 - 13 14-2L 22-28II. III. rv.3 5 f, 85-2?931 I6Osn (E) Al40/736 Engl i8tr Page 2 l. The iforklng Group on the Slnancing of Ehe gnited Nations nelief and works Agency for Pal€8tlne Refugees ln the Near East (t'NRt{A} *aE established by tshe Generl1 Assenbly under re;Iution 2656 ( tcKV) of ? Decenber 1970 fo €Eudy all alpecte of the financltlg of the Agcncy. In tbe reeol'ution' tbe Assenbly requested the tforklng Group to easl5t the gecretary-Gene rel an't the Cmnlssioner-General of uNnnA tn re.ching dolutionE to the problcoa posed by Ebe AgencyrB financial crisis' 2. At the teenty-fif,th and eucceeding sesalonE' the General Assenbly considered the reporEs submltted to it by tbe worklng Group, !,/ and adopted t:":]::l"n" comenali,ng the efforts of Ehe norklng Gro;P and reduest lnq it to conEinue then for a fuEth"r yeat. // 3. the lorklng Group @naiats of th€ EePresenlatlves of Prance' Ghana' Japan' t€banon, !|oreay, Trinlatatl .nd Tobago ' turkGy, the Unlted Kingdoo of Great Britain and Norchern Iieland and the Uniteal Etates of &DeEica' At i'ts neettng on I lirtch 1985, the forktng Group elected l'tr. Ilter T0rkren of Turkey to succeed tlr. A. Colkun Kirca as iEa Chllrnan. 4. The report of th€ $orklng GrouP on its actlvlBies in 1984 i/ was considered b!'