A/RES/68/251
Pattern of conferences
Recalling its resolution 14 (I) of 13 February 1946 and the role of the
Advisory Committee as a subsidiary body of the General Assembly,
I
Calendar of conferences and meetings
1.
Welcomes the report of the Committee on Conferences for 2013;1
2.
Approves the draft calendar of conferences and meetings of the United
Nations for 2014 and 2015, as submitted by the Committee on Conferences, 4 taking
into account the observations of the Committee and subject to the provisions of the
present resolution;
3.
Authorizes the Committee on Conferences to make any adjustments to
the calendar of conferences and meetings for 2014 and 2015 that may become
necessary as a result of actions and decisions taken by the General Assembly at its
sixty-eighth session;
4.
Notes with satisfaction that the Secretariat has taken into account the
arrangements referred to in General Assembly resolutions 53/208 A, 54/248, 55/222,
56/242, 57/283 B, 58/250, 59/265, 60/236 A, 61/236, 62/225, 63/248, 64/230,
65/245, 66/233 and 67/237 concerning Orthodox Good Friday and the official
holidays of Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, and requests all intergovernmental bodies to
observe those decisions when planning their meetings;
5.
Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that any modification to the
calendar of conferences and meetings is implemented strictly in accordance with the
mandate of the Committee on Conferences and other relevant resolutions of the
General Assembly;
6.
Invites Member States to include in new legislative mandates adequate
information on the modalities for the organization of conferences or meetings;
7.
Recalls rule 153 of its rules of procedure, and, for resolutions involving
expenditure, requests the Secretary-General to include the modalities of
conferences, taking into account the trends of similar meetings, with a view to
mobilizing conference services and documentation in the most efficient and costeffective manner possible;
8.
Reaffirms the need to address the issue of duplications and redundancies
in conference servicing, and notes in this regard that the Economic and Social
Council decided in its resolution 2013/13 of 22 July 2013 to consider at a later date
the necessity of reviewing its provisional biennial calendar of conferences and
meetings in the light of the ongoing intergovernmental consultations on the further
strengthening of the Council;
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4
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 32 (A/68/32),
annex II.
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