A/RES/56/279 the report of the Unit,1 bearing in mind also the distinct mandates, roles, tasks and rules of each individual participating organization; 4. Welcomes the comments and views contained in the relevant paragraphs of the first report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,5 in particular regarding telecommunications and information technology services, conference services, printing and publishing, as well as general administration; 5. Notes the efforts made to date by the Geneva-based organizations of the United Nations system for the enhancement of common services, and encourages them to pursue, with a more structured approach, the improvement of existing common services and the development of new common approaches, within the framework of the Management Ownership Committee and the Task Force on Common Services and its working groups; 6. Requests the Secretary-General to encourage the Management Ownership Committee, when determining the scope and pace of implementation of common services arrangements at Geneva, to adopt streamlined consultation procedures that would promote timely agreement on which services should be delivered in common or jointly, with a view to the possible full launching of the plan of action for Geneva common services earlier than the targeted year of 2010; 7. Invites the Unit to continue to monitor progress in the development and consolidation of common services at Geneva, and at other duty stations where the United Nations system offices and agencies are established, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-eighth session in the context of its annual report; 8. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fiftyeighth session on the implementation of the present resolution. 97th plenary meeting 27 March 2002 2