UNITED NATIONS MAR 2 51981 ________________________ __,....;_.......4-L-'-__________ _ ol-07559 United Nations Conte'r~nce, .CLLECr r)\f -,., •~" ~ ,i on New and Renewable Sources of Energy Nairobi, Kenya 10-21 August 1981 PREPARATIONS AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL Comprehensive reports on the activities of the regional commissions Note by the Secretary-General Distr. GENERAL A/CONF.100/7 19 March 1981 ORIGINAL: ENGLISH I ... A/C0HF .100 /7 English Page 2 1. The Preparatory Committee for the United Nations Conference on New and Renewable So~rces of Energy, at its second session, adopted decision 7 (II) concernints preparatory work for the Conference. In parar,raph ( e) of that decisic: I the Preparatory Committee recommended that "all relevant organs, organizations anc'l bodies of the United nations should sub:rni t comprehensive reports on their activities in the field of new and renewable sources of enerp,y, includilli! the provision of technical assistance to developing countries, in accordr.nce with Assembly resolution 33/148, in time for the third session of the Preparatory CornJnittee;". In paragraph (f), the Preparatory CoP11T1ittee further recommended 11that the re1:,ional commissions should strenp;then their participation in the preparatory process for the Conference, and, inter aJ.ia, assist and encourage i:: I organizing national, regional and interregional sewinars for detailec'l discussion,, and that they should, under the over-all co-ordination of the Director-General for Development and International EconoITJ.ic Co-operation submit rerional papers and a comp~ehensi ve renort on their preparation; for the Conference in time for the third session of the Committee". c. 'i'he request for these reports was discussed at an interagency meeting (Geneva, Cctober 1980). Fhile recognizing that a great deal of information was already available, inter alia, through the cross-organizational programme analyse, and the report submitted to the General Assembly at its thirty-fifth session (A/35 /531), the meeting agreed that agencies, organizations and bodies of the 