As alre ady ltated, ule voLutre of repetl'tiv€ r€3o- lutions, which ln sonre cases aPpear to be somewhat llke photo coples of earlier resoLutions only w i.tlr nlnor changes, is perhaps attrib,utable to a kind of lrErresslon tiat if no resolution is adopted after a matter has been extens lvely debated the emphasls on its lrilportance woul& be lost 6J1d that if a resolution adopted at a prevlous session is not repeated lt may be deened to hav6 lapsed. S ince it rnay take sofire persuaslon to convlnce de!-egatj.ons that there is no .legal basis for such a pr€mise, l-t might be pnrCent. to begln wlth, to contempl ate short resolutj.ons whose purpose would stmply b'e to recall the earlier resolutlons. Indeed, such a practJ.ce was fol}cnreC in the initlal years of t?re General Assembly on such lssues as the status' of gqs!! West Aflica or the mehbership questlon reguestln€r ttre SectrritY Counci]. to -reeonslder its decLslon. Pur-hercre,. it may be meneioned thac ncsc of the resolutLons whicfr contain recomnendations or call for actlon contaln such detaj-ls lncludlng the prevlous historr]r of the manner the subJect has been dealt $rlttr earller tlat l-t ls illf fl-cult to disco'rer wj-th preclsion the operatlve parts which-need to be lrryIerented bry ' goverffnents. Sonre ttrought ttrerefore needs to be devoted on tie posslblllty of reduclng tl]€ nr]Ir|ber of resolutlons as also on "uhe questlon of classifying then erlth a viert to drawinqr attention to those whlch .need to be lnqrierEnted apari! from ttre matter of preparation of the drafts wlth a view. to the ir slmpllfl.catlon.A/40/726 EngI ish Page 72 The numerlcal record of ttre resoLutions26 1" ,ro doubt dlrectly linked r+ith the number of itens lnscribed on the age nda of the s""slo.rs27 bue even so, it appears