A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/220 23 January 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 112 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/51/751)] 51/220. Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 1998-1999 The General Assembly, Reaffirming its resolution 41/213 of 19 December 1986, in which it requested the Secretary-General to submit in off-budget years an outline of the proposed programme budget for the following biennium, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General,1 the related recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination2 and the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,3 1. Reaffirms that the outline of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1998-1999 shall contain an indication of: (a) A preliminary estimate of resources to accommodate the proposed programme of activities during the biennium; (b) (c) budget; Priorities reflecting general trends of a broad sectoral nature; Real growth, positive or negative, compared with the previous (d) The size of the contingency fund expressed as a percentage of the overall level of resources; 1 A/51/289. 2 A/51/16 (Parts I and II); see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 16. 3 A/51/720. 97-76243 /...