headings thatappearabovetables27.23and27.25(2.Information Service, Geneva and3.Information Service, Vienna), andthattherelated footnote shouldreadas follows: "Including theinformation office". 693.Regarding pUblications ingeneral, theCommittee expressed theviewthatthe Department ofPublicInformation shouldhavetakenintoaccount paragraph 9.18of themedium-term planfortheperiod1984-1989, §Iinwhichitwasstatedthat, whenever astudywaspUblished containing detailed background information ona priority topic,theDepartment wouldproduce asimplified version. 694.TheCommittee notedtheassurances oftheUnder-Secretary-General, Department ofPublicInformation, thatacorrection wouldbeissuedwithregardtothewording usedinoutput(iii)ofprogramme element 2.9(Newworldinformation and communication order). 695.Withtheabovechanges, theCommittee recommended thattheGeneral Assembly shoUldapprove theprogramme narrative ofsection 27oftheproposed programme budgetforthebiennium 1986-1987. B.Experience gainedintheprOV1Slon ofstatements ofprogramme budgetimplications totheGeneral Assembly atitsthirty-ninth session 696.TheCommittee decided, without prejudice tothepositions ofMemberStates, to recommend thecontinuation oftheperiodprovided forinparagraph 12ofsection II ofGeneral Assembly resolution 38/227Aof20December 1983foronemoreyearin viewoftheshortperiodinwhichtheprovisions ofthatresolution hadbeen applied. 697.TheCommittee alsorecommended thattheGeneral Assembly shouldrequest the Secretary-General tosubmittotheAssembly atitsforty-first session, through the Committee forProgramme andCo-ordination atitstwenty-sixth session, areporton thefurther experience gainedintheimplementation ofparagraph 7ofsection IIof General Assembly resolution 38/227 A,bearing inmindtherelated decisions. 698.TheCommittee further recommended thattheabove-mentioned reportbesubmitted totheCOmmittee forProgramme andCo-ordination insufficient timetopermitthe Committee toconsider itatanearlystageduringitstwenty-sixth session. -138- jijC. 699.TheComm" SecretarY-Gen Co-operation itssatisfact" Co-operation 700.Whileit theirwork,t further impro theCommittee 701.TheCommi substantive re Council resolu bytransmittin express theju several matter theco-ordinat oftheUnited 702.TheCommi relations shou, activities hav relating tothl 703.TheCommi ofallactivit shouldbecarr E.F 704.TheCommil implementation 705.TheCommi decentralizati distribution 0 706.TheCommi SecretarY-Gene toitstwenty-C.Foodandagricultural activities inAsiaandthePacific: co-operation andco-ordination between theFoodand Agriculture Organization oftheUnitedNations andthe Economic andSocial Commission forAsiaandthePacific 699.TheCommittee tooknotewithappreciation ofthereportofthe Secretary-General onfoodandagricultural activities inAsiaandthePacific: co-operation andco-ordination between FAOandESCAP(E/AC.5l/1985/4) andexpressed itssatisfaction withtheprogress madeduringthepasttwoyearsinfurthering co-operation between thetwoorganizations. 700.Whileitwasnotnecessary torequest anadditional reportonthisaspectof theirwork,theCommittee encouraged FAOandESCAPtocontinue theirefforts to further improve co-ordination oftheiractivities ofjointconcern andtoreportto theCommittee iftheyencountered anydifficulties. D.Aspects ofco-ordination andrationalization ofthe activities oftheUnitedNations Industrial Development Organization 701.TheCommittee expressed itsregretatthedelayinthesubmission ofa substantive reportinresponse tosection VI,paragraph 2,ofEconomic andSocial Council resolution 1983/49 of28July1983. TheCommittee agreedthatthereport, bytransmitting theviewsofthesecretariats ofUNIDOandUNCTAD, hadfailedto express thejudgement oftheOfficeforProgramme Planning andCo-ordination on several matters relating totherationalization oftheworkprogramme ofUNIDOand theco-ordination oftheactivities ofUNIDO,bothinternally andwithotherunits oftheUnitedNations. 702.TheCommittee recommended thattheactivities ofUNIDOrelating toexternal relations should berationalized withaviewtoreleasing resources forother activities havinghigherpriority andthattheactivities ofUNIDOandUNCTAD