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encourages regular interaction between the Presidents of the General Assembly, the
Security Council and the Economic and Social Council in this regard;
11. Recalls the Guidelines on the Rationalization of the Agenda of the General
Assembly, as adopted in its resolution 48/264 of 29 July 1994;
12. Also recalls the need to enhance synergies and coherence by addressing
gaps, overlaps and duplication where they are found to exist in the agendas of the
General Assembly, especially of its Second and Third Committees, and the Economic
and Social Council and its subsidiary bodies, in accordance with relevant rules of
procedure and in the light of the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable
Development; 3
13. Requests the General Committee, while exercising its functions under
rule 40 of the rules of procedure of the General Assembly, to pay special attention to
reduction of such overlap;
14. Stresses the need to limit the number of high-level events in the margins
of the general debate;
15. Underlines the urgent need to preserve the primacy of the general debate
of the General Assembly and for Member States and the United Nations system to
singly and collectively limit the number of side events held in parallel with or in the
margins of the general debate;
16. Recognizes the value of holding interactive inclusive thematic debates on
current issues of critical importance to the international community, calls for the
rationalizing of such debates to ensure high-level attendance, and calls upon
the President of the General Assembly to be mindful of the regular agenda of the
Assembly when organizing such debates;
17. Requests the President of the General Assembly to reconsider the timing
of the plenary meetings of the Assembly on the report of the Secretary-General on the
work of the Organization and on the report of the Security Council, in close
coordination with the Secretary-General and the President of the Security Council, so
that discussions of these important reports are not conducted in a perfunctory manner;
18. Reiterates its decision to hold an interactive and comprehensive dialogue
between the Permanent Missions and the Secretariat as mandated in resolution 71/323
of 8 September 2017, during the work of the Ad Hoc Working Group, and strongly
emphasizes the importance of the follow-up on issues raised during the dialogue
aimed at improving the work of the Secretariat in its interaction with Permanent
Missions, including the circulation of these follow-up measures to Permanent
Missions;
19. Requests the Secretariat to circulate in advance to the Permanent Missions
all new or updated administrative instructions and other documents that have an
impact on Member States with respect to the delivery of standard administrative
services;
20. Notes the progress aimed at increasing the visibility of the General
Assembly in the media and in bringing the priorities of the Assembly to a wider
audience, and requests the Department of Global Communications of the Secretariat
to continue to take appropriate measures to further enhance public awareness of the
role and activities of the Assembly, including on as many platforms as possible;
21. Takes note of the proposals provided by the Secretariat for addressing the
cost of the use of the Delegates’ Dining Room and other venues at United Nations
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