A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/49/217 15 February 1995 Forty-ninth session Agenda item 105 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/49/820)] 49/217. Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 1996-1997 The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 41/213 of 19 December 1986, by 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 Coordination 2/ and the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions contained in its report, 3/ 1. Reaffirms that the proposed programme budget outline shall contain an indication of (a) a preliminary estimate of resources to accommodate the proposed programme of activities during the biennium; (b) priorities, reflecting general trends of a broad sectoral nature; (c) real growth, positive or negative, compared with the previous budget; and (d) the size of the contingency fund expressed as a percentage of the overall level of resources; 2. Reaffirms also that the outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium, promote a greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process and thereby facilitate the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget; 1/ A/49/310. 2/ See A/49/16 (Part II). 3/ 95-76711 A/49/796 and Corr.1. /...