Emphasizing the importance of the restructuring proposals included in the
report of the Secretary-General containing revised estimates of the programme
budget for the biennium 1992-1993 (A/C.5/47/88) in relation to the Division for
the Advancement of Women and the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian
Affairs,
1.
Calls upon the Secretary-General to take the necessary steps to
strengthen the structure for the advancement of women and maintain its identity
and status, to ensure adequate resources on an ongoing basis before and beyond
the Fourth World Conference on Women and to report to the Commission on the
Status of Women at its thirty-eighth session;
2.
Urges that, in making decisions in relation to the Division and the
Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs, due consideration be
given to the long- and short-term impact of those decisions on the priority,
substance and visibility of the United Nations commitment to women and to social
development;
3.
Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that any institutional
arrangements resulting from the current restructuring exercise strengthen the
work programme of the United Nations on the advancement of women and improve
coordination of this programme with other programmes in the economic and social
fields;
4.
Encourages Member States to consider sending high-level
representation, including that of national machinery on the advancement of
women, to future sessions of the Commission.
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