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14. Requests the Secretary-General to continue to publicize the Programme and periodically to invite
Member States, universities, philanthropic foundations and other interested national and international
institutions and organizations, as well as individuals, to make voluntary contributions towards the financing
of the Programme or otherwise to assist in its implementation and possible expansion;
15. Reiterates its request to Member States and to interested organizations and individuals to make
voluntary contributions, inter alia, for the International Law Seminar, the fellowship programme in
international law, the Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Memorial Fellowship on the Law of the Sea and the
United Nations Audiovisual Library in International Law, and expresses its appreciation to those Member
States, institutions and individuals which have made voluntary contributions for this purpose;
16. Urges in particular all Governments to make voluntary contributions for the organization of regional
refresher courses in international law by the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, especially
with a view to covering the amount needed for the financing of the daily subsistence allowance for up to
twenty-five participants in each regional course, thus alleviating the burden on prospective host countries and
making it possible for the Institute to continue to organize the regional courses;
17. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-fourth session on the
implementation of the Programme during 1998 and 1999 and, following consultations with the Advisory
Committee on the Programme, to submit recommendations regarding the execution of the Programme in
subsequent years;
18. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled "United
Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of
International Law".
72nd plenary meeting
15 December 1997