A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/54/259 26 April 2000 Fifty-fourth session Agenda item 124 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/54/690/Add.1)] 54/259. United Nations publications: enhancing cost-effectiveness in implementing legislative mandates The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the Joint Inspection Unit entitled “United Nations publications: enhancing cost-effectiveness in implementing legislative mandates”,1 the note by the Secretary-General containing his comments thereon,2 the relevant chapter of the report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on the work of its thirty-eighth session3 and the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on United Nations publications,4 Recalling paragraph 1 of section D of its resolution 52/214 of 22 December 1997, and taking into account the fact that the General Assembly has not taken any decision on the question of a cost-accounting system, 1. Unit;1 Endorses recommendations 2,5 3, 10 and 16 to 18 contained in the report of the Joint Inspection 1 See A/51/946. 2 A/52/685. Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/53/16), chap. IV. 3 4 A/53/669. The updated report of the Secretary-General on publications policy, referred to in recommendation 2, should be submitted to the General Assembly at its fifty-sixth session. 5 00 39010 /...