United Nations A/RES/57/311 General Assembly Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 112 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/57/649/Add.2)] 57/311. Financial situation of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women The General Assembly, Recalling its decision 57/580 of 20 December 2002, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financial situation of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women1 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,2 Having also considered the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the audit of the Institute,3 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General1 and of the observations and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;2 2. Takes note also of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services;3 3. Regrets that the nomination of a Director of the Institute, a post classified at the D-2 level, has not yet taken place, impairing the capacity of the Institute to function properly; 4. Urges the Secretary-General to appoint immediately a Director at the D-2 level, to be based at the headquarters of the Institute in the Dominican Republic, and thereafter to inform the Working Group on the Future Operations of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women of the designation of the nominee; 5. Approves the release of the amount of 250,000 United States dollars that was set aside in the contingency fund for the biennium 2002–2003, in conformity with the provisions of General Assembly decision 57/580, as an additional provision for the continuation of the core activities of the Institute in 2003, and decides to appropriate the amount of 250,000 dollars for this purpose; _______________ 1 A/57/797. A/57/7/Add.27. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 7. 3 See A/56/907. 2 02 56203 Distr.: General 11 July 2003