A/RES/57/292 annex to the report of the Secretary-General14 shall be reflected in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005; V United Nations Institute for Training and Research Recalling its resolutions 47/227 of 8 April 1993 and 56/208 of 21 December 2001, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Institute for Training and Research15 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,16 1. Emphasizes the need to find a viable financial solution to ensure the future effective functioning of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research; 2. Notes with concern that the Institute has accumulated a debt to the United Nations and to the Fondation immobilière pour organisations internationales owing to lack of payment of rent and maintenance for its liaison offices in New York and Geneva; 3. Requests the Secretary-General, on the basis of consultations with the Executive Director of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session on the financial viability of the Institute, including the status of all voluntary contributions and the payment of the accumulated debt of the Institute, as well as on provisions offered to other comparable organizations; 4. Also requests the Secretary-General to address, in the context of the programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005, based on the aforementioned consultations with the Institute, specific proposals and options on how best to address the issue of its past and future maintenance and rental costs, drawing on the provisions made for other organizations associated with the United Nations; VI First performance report on the programme budget for the biennium 2002–2003 Having considered the first performance report of the Secretary-General on the programme budget for the biennium 2002–200317 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,18 1. Reaffirms the budgetary process as approved in its resolution 41/213 of 19 December 1986 and as reaffirmed in subsequent resolutions; 2. Also reaffirms its resolutions 56/253 and 56/254 A to C of 24 December 2001 and 56/274 B, 56/286 and 56/287 of 27 June 2002; 3. Takes note of the first performance report of the Secretary-General on the programme budget for the biennium 2002–2003,17 and endorses the observations and _______________ 14 A/57/152/Add.2. A/57/479. 16 A/57/7/Add.15. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 7. 17 A/57/616. 18 A/57/7/Add.16. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 7. 15 7