A/RES/51/241 Page 7 41. The budget process shall be carried out in accordance with relevant General Assembly budget resolutions, in particular resolution 41/213 of 19 December 1986, and the relevant provisions of the Financial Rules and Regulations. The importance of continuous and appropriate dialogue on the improvement of current administrative and budgetary practices and procedures is recognized. 42. The Secretary-General shall continue to have flexibility, without prejudice to the fulfilment of mandates, to redeploy, as necessary, within the limits prescribed by the General Assembly budget resolutions and the Financial Rules and Regulations, the human and financial resources necessary to fulfil mandates. XIV. ROLE OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY 43. The President of the General Assembly shall be encouraged to take appropriate opportunities to utilize the potential of the office of the President, consistent with the Charter and the mandates of the Assembly, to advance the purposes and principles of the Organization, including regular consultations between the President of the Assembly and the presidents of other organs, particularly the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council. 44. In order to assist the President in the discharge of his responsibilities, the General Assembly shall request the Secretary-General, after consultation with the President, to include in the next programme budget a proposal for adequate resources to be made available to the President, including, if necessary, through enhanced administrative and personnel support to the office of the President. XV. TECHNOLOGY 45. The Secretary-General is requested to pursue an information technology plan with a range of options to provide all permanent missions to the United Nations and the wider public with on-line access to documents and relevant United Nations information. Unless the General Assembly decides otherwise, hard copies of documents shall continue to be distributed to permanent missions in accordance with their needs. While welcoming the progress made by the Ad hoc Open-ended Working Group on Informatics of the Economic and Social Council, further efforts in this direction could be pursued within a specified time-frame to harmonize and improve United Nations information systems. All countries, in particular developing countries, shall be assisted in making full use of this potential access. Adequate provision should be made for training delegates. Facilities for such access by delegations within the United Nations premises shall also be expanded as much as possible. Availability of information in this manner should be ensured in all official languages of the United Nations. 46. The Secretary-General is encouraged to include information on the impact of technological improvements in his report on the implementation of mandates, by means of comparing outputs with objectives. XVI. SYSTEM-WIDE COORDINATION 47. The Secretary-General is requested to elaborate further ways to strengthen system-wide coordination and to report thereon to the General /...