UNITED NATIONS A GeneralAssembly Distr. GENERAL A/C.5/45/2 ~4September 1990 -sa wORIGINAL: ENGLISH Forty-fifth session FIFTH COMMITTEE Item122oftheprovisional agenda* PROGRAMME BUDGET FORTHEBIENNIUM 1990-1991 Revised estimates undersections 3,13, 27,31andIncome Section 1 Report oftheSecretary-General INTRODUCTION 1.Insection Vofitsresolution 44/201 Bof21December 1989,theGeneral Assembly accepted theestimates andproposal oftheSecretary-General for section 3C(Namibia) oftheproposed programme budget forthebiennium 1990-1991, asendorsed bytheCommittee forProgramme andCo-ordination andtheAdvisory Committee onAdministrative andBudgetary Questions, notedthatthe Secretary-General wouldsubmit revised estimates forthatsection, andrequested himtodosonolaterthanattheforty-fifth session oftheGeneral Assembly. 2.Inthesameresolution, theSecretary-General wasrequested, takingfull account ofthepriority attached bytheGeneral Assembly toactivities against apartheid andoftheviewsexpressed byMember Statesattheforty-fourth session, toensure optimum utilization ofresources within section 3,including the possibility ofredeployment ofstaffresources, whensubmitting revised estimates andpriorities forsection 3totheGeneral Assembly atitsforty-fifth session. 3.Itmayalsoberecalled thatinsection 27(Public information) ofhis proposed programme budget forthebiennium 1990-1991, 1/theSecretary-General statedthattheestimates relating toinformation activities onNamibia were provisional andthatrevised estimates wouldbesubmitted totheGeneral Assembly *A/45/150 andCorr.1. 90-22701 1925b(E) /... Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld Library-~---------------- A/C.5/45/2 English Page2 onthebasisofdecisions thattheAssembly mightadoptinconnection withthe question ofNamibia. 4.Atitssummer 1990session, theEconomic andSocial Council revim ...edandtook noteofresolution 682(XXV)concerning improving thetechnical facilities ofthe Economic Commission forAfrica (ECA)adopted bytheCommission atitstwenty-fifth session (15-19 May1990). Underthetermsofthatresolution theSecretary-General wasurgedtoprovide thesecretariat ofECAwiththenecessary office automation andcomputing equipment foritsoptimal functioning andforbetter service to MemberStates. 5.PartIofthepresent document reviews thebudgetary effects ofthewinding downofactivities relating tothequestion ofNamibia whicharecurrently covered ,'~dersubsection 3Coftheprogramme budget forthebiennium 1990-1991. Part11 c0ntains revised estimates forsubsection 3B(Department forSpecial Political Questions, Regional Co-operation, Decolonization andTrusteeship). PartIII contains revised estimates undersubsection 3D(Centre against bP.9.rj:_Q~.i~l). 6.PartIVreflects theeffects ofthe acce~sion ofNamibia toindependence on theinformation activities onNamibia falling undersubprogramme 1(Promotional services) ofchapter 9(Public information) ofthemedium-term planfortheperiod 1984-1991 asrevised andextended, forwhichresources areprovided under section 27oftheprogramme budget forthe1990-1991 biennium. 7.PartVofthereport contains proposals towards theimplementation in1991of anoffice automation project forECA. 8.PartVIofthereport summarizes theneteffect oftheserevised estimates for theprogramme budget forthebiennium 1990-1991, namely anetreduction of $8,093,200. I.BUDGETARY EFFECTS OFTHEPHASING OUTOFACTIVITIES RELATING TOPROGR.~E 3(NAMIBIA) OFCHAPTER 4(POLITICAL AFFAIRS, TRUSTEESHIP ANDDECOLONIZATION) OFTHEMEDIUM-TERM PLl>.NFOR THEPERIOD 1984-1989 (EXTENDED TO1991) CURRENTLY COVERED