A/RES/48/131 Page 3 7. Recommends that the United Nations continue and strengthen its coordination of election preparation and observation with intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations which have an interest in such activities; 8. Requests the Secretary-General to provide the Electoral Assistance Unit with adequate human and financial resources, under the regular budget of the United Nations and within existing resources, to allow it to carry out its mandate; 9. Also requests the Secretary-General to reinforce the Centre for Human Rights through the redeployment of resources and personnel, so as to enable it to answer, in close coordination with the Electoral Assistance Unit, the increasing number of requests from Member States for advisory services in the area of electoral assistance; 10. Recommends that, on the basis of the guidelines proposed in his report 5/ and on the basis of experience acquired over the last two years, the Secretary-General provide a revised set of guidelines for consideration at its forty-ninth session; 11. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session on the implementation of resolution 47/138 and the present resolution, in particular on the status of requests from Member States for electoral assistance and verification, and on the validity of the guidelines in the light of experience. 85th plenary meeting 20 December 1993 __________ 5/ A/47/668 and Corr.1 and Add.1.

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