ofTanzania inthelistofcountries eligible toreceive assistance through UNSOon behalfofUNEPinimplementing ~hePlanofActiontoCombatDesertification. 30.Byparagraph 5ofthesamedecision, theCouncil authorized theExecutive Director tosubmithisreportontheimplementation ofthePlanofActioninthe Sudano-Sahelian reglon (UNEP/GC.l3/7/Add.l), prepared inresponse toGeneral Assembly resolution 39/168 Bof17December 1984,onbehalfoftheCouncil, through theEconomic andSocialCouncil, totheAssembly atitsfortieth session. -9-I, I CHAPTERIII ADOPTION OFDECISIONS Programme policy andimplementation (decision 13/1) 431.Atthe13thmeeting ofthesession, on23May,theCouncil hadbeforeita draftdecision onthissubject submitted bytheBureau (UNEP/GC.13/L.18). 32.Thedraftdecision wasadopted byconsensus. Establishment ofaCommittee ofPermanent Representatives (decision 13/2) 33.Atthe13thmeeting ofthesession, on23May,theCouncil hadbeforeita draftdecision onthissUbject submitted bytheBureau (UNEP/GC.13/L.15). 34.TheExecutive Director placed onrecordtbefac.tthat"services andfacilities ofthesamekind",inparagraph 4,excluded formaldocumentation andinterpretation. 35.Thedraftdecision wasadopted byconsensus:. Provision ofinformation toGovernments between thethirteenth andfourteenth sessions oftheCouncil (decision 13/3) 36.Atthe13thmeeting ofthesession, on23May,theCouncil hadbeforeita draftdecision onthissubject submitted bytheBureau (UNEP/GC.13/L.12). 37.Therepresentative ofuruguay askedthatdocument references beincluded in reports, listsofmeetings andthelike,soastofacilitate requests for documentation. 38.Thedraftdecision wasadopted byconsensus. Environmental Perspective totheYear2000andBeyond(decisions 13/4AtoE) 39.Atthe15thmeeting ofthesession, on24May,theCouncil hadbeforeitsome draftdecisions onthissubject submitted bytheIntergovernmental Inter-sessional PrepaJ:atory Commi tt~eontheEnvironmental Perspective (IIPC)(see UNEP/GC/IIPC.2/2, annex). 40.Thedraftdecisions, asorally amended bythePresident, wereadopted by consensus. 41.TheChairman ofIIPCsaidthat,whilehewasabletoacceptthePresident's amendment, itwashisunderstanding thatnotime-limit hadbeenestablished bythe General Assembly fortheEnvironmental Perspective. Theexpression "timeframe"in draft deci~ion B,beforeitsamendment, hadreferred totheCommission's report. 42.TheExecutive Director saidthathewishedtoplaceonrecordthefactthat thefuturesessions ofIIPCduringtheperiod 1985-1987 wouldhavetobe accommodated withinthefinancial resources available. Thatwouldmeanthat interpretation wouldcertainly notbeavailable forthenextoneortwosessions. -10-a a ities ation. a in ;ome mal 's the ~"in s.Observance ofthefortieth anniversary ofthefounding oftheUnitedNutions (decision 13/5) 43.Atthe13thmeeting ofthesession, on23May,theCouncil hadbeforeita draftdecision onthissubject submitted bytheBureau (UNEP/GC.13/L.ll). 44.Thedraftdecision wasadopted byconsensus. African environmental conference (decision 13/6) 45.Atthe13thmeeting ofthesession, on23May,theCouncil hadbeforeita draftdecision onthissubject submitted bytheAfrican Group(UNEP/GC.13/L.16). 46.Thedraftdecision wasadopted byconsensus. Impactofapartheid ontheenvironment (decision 13/7) 47.Atthe13thmeeting ofthesession, on23May,theCouncil hadbeforeita draftdecision onthissubject submitted bytheGroupof77(UNEP/GC.13/L.13). 48.Thedraftdecision wasadopted byconsensus. 49.Therepresentative ofItaly,speaking alsoonbehalfoftheotherEEC countries members oftheCouncil, andofAustralia, Austria, Canada andtheUnited StatesofAmerica rsaidthat,ifthedraftdecision hadbeenputtothevote,those representatives wouldhavebeenunabletos~pport thesecondpreambular paragraph, whichtouched onpolitical issuesthatcamewithinthepurview ofotherUnited Nations bodiesratherthanUNEP. However, inviewofthefactthattheyallshared anabhorrence forapartheid, whichtheywerecommitted toendbypeaceful meansin keeping withtheUnitedNations Charter, thoserepresentatives hadbeenprepared to joinintheconsensus onthedecisio~. 50.Therepresentative ofNorway, speaking alsoonbehalfoftherepresentative of Finland, saidthat,whilehewasutterly opposed toapartheid, hefeltthatit~a5 notinthebestinterests ofUNEPthattheProgramme should beburdened with pOlitical matters thatwereproperly theconcern ofotherUnitedNations bodies.