General operating expenses (Decrease: $407,500) 23.Therequirements underthisheading areestimated at$202,200, reflecting a decrease of$407,500. Theyrelate toprovision during 1990fortheCouncil's special plenary meetings andaseminar tobeheldatWindhoek for:(a)rentalof conference facilities andoffices ($18,000); (b)rental ofoffice equipment ($53,000); (c)communications costs($12,000); (d)official receptions ($5,000); and(e)miscellaneous services toprovide fortheengagement oflocalsupport staff andtechni.cal services toservice meetings aswellasthecostofshipment ofthe archival collections oftheCouncil totheGovernment ofNamibia ($114,200). Supplies (Decrease: $37,400) 24.Therequirements underthisheading ($5,300), whichreflect adecrease of $37,400, relate tothepurchase ofoffice andconference supplies required atthe Council's plenary meetings andtheseminar inNamibia. /... Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld LibraryA/C.5/45/2 English Page8 Contributions (Decrease: $25,400) 25.Namibia, represented bytheCouncil, hadfullmembership statusinanlli~berof international organizations. Whilemostoftheagencies havewaived membership fee,theCouncil wasrequired topayannualcontributions totheInternational LabourOrganisation (ILO)andtheFoodandAgriculture Organization oftheUnited Nations (FAO). Thefinancial obligations in1990amounted to$45,000. Thebalance of$25,400 ofthe1990-1991 resources provisionally appropriated isrelinquished. Grants (Decrease: $881,500) 26.Initsprogramme ofworkfor1990,theCouncil decided tocontinue its programme ofco-operation withNGOs.Priortoindependence, theCouncil had approved grantstotalling $118,500 insupport oftheactivities ofthefollowing NGOs;theAssociation ofWestEuropean Parliamentarians forActionagainst Apartheid (AWEPAA), Operation Dagvaersk, WorldUniversity Service andthe Washington Office onAfrica. Ofthe$1,000,000 appropriated provisionally forthe 1990-1991 biennium $881,500 canthusberelinquished. 2.OfficeoftheUnitedNations Commissioner forNamibia 27.TheUnitedNations Commissioner forNamibia assisted theCouncil infulfilment ofitsresponsibility withregardtoNamibia, empowered byGeneral Assembly resolution 2248(S-V)andsubsequent annualresolutions onthequestion of Namibia. TheCommissioner served asthechiefexecutive officer oftheCouncil and provided overall direction andmanagement fortheCouncil's programme of activities. TheCommissioner wasresponsible fortheco-ordination ofallthe servicing activities oftheCouncil anditssubsidiary bodies. 28.Theprogramme ofactivities oftheOfficeoftheUnitedNations Commissioner forNamibia fellunderProgramme 3,Namibia ofthemedium-term planfortheperiod 1984-1991 asrevised. Theseactivities arecovered underthefollowing subprogrammes: 1.Representation ofNamibia; 2.Reviewing andreporting ontheprogress oftheliberation struggle in Namibia; 3.Protection ofNamibian interests; 4.Assistance toNamibians; 5.Mobilization ofinternational support fortheNamibian people's struggle forliberation 29.Thesubprogrammes implemented, asappropriate, bytheCommissioner's offices inNewYork,Lusaka, Gaborone andLuandahavebeenadjusted inthelightof developments relating toNamibia, whichhaveoccurred sincethelastrevision of /... Digitized by Dag Hammarskjöld LibraryAlC.5/45/2 English Page9 themedium-term plan. Thedetails ofthesubprogrammes andrelated programme elements whichhavebeenimplemented during 1990,aswellasthosewhichare proposed forcontinuation undertheTransistional UnitforNamibia, arepresented inannex Itothepresent report. 30.Theserevised estimates forthebiennium 1990-1991 reflect theactivities, as called forintheapproved programme ofworkoftheCouncil for1990andas modified bysubsequent developments. ~ccordingly, therequirements havebeen estimated ontheassumption thattheCommissioner's officewillceasetoexiston