United Nations A/RES/57/280 General Assembly Distr.: General 24 January 2003 Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 111 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/57/648)] 57/280. Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2004–2005 The General Assembly, Reaffirming its resolution 41/213 of 19 December 1986, in which it requested the Secretary-General to submit in off-budget years an outline of the proposed programme budget for the following biennium, Reaffirming also section VI of its resolution 45/248 B of 21 December 1990, Reaffirming further rule 153 of its rules of procedure, Recalling its resolutions 56/253 of 24 December 2001, 56/254 D of 27 March 2002, 56/287 of 27 June 2002 and 57/292 of 20 December 2002, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2004–2005,1 the related recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Coordination2 and the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,3 1. Endorses the relevant conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination2 and the observations and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;3 2. Reaffirms that the proposed programme budget outline shall contain an indication of the following: (a) A preliminary estimate of resources needed to accommodate the proposed programme of activities during the biennium; (b) Priorities reflecting general trends of a broad sectoral nature; (c) Real growth, positive or negative, compared with the previous budget; _______________ 1 A/57/85. Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/57/16), paras. 25 and 26. 3 See A/57/636. 2 02 55998