A/RES/56/77 international law, account would be taken of the need to secure the representation of major legal systems and balance among various geographical regions, Welcoming the establishment of the United Nations Audiovisual Library in International Law, 1. Approves the guidelines and recommendations contained in section III of the report of the Secretary-General 1 and adopted by the Advisory Committee on the United Nations Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law, in particular those designed to achieve the best possible results in the administration of the Programme within a policy of maximum financial restraint; 2. Authorizes the Secretary-General to carry out in 2002 and 2003 the activities specified in his report, including the provision of: (a) A number of international law fellowships in both 2002 and 2003, to be determined in the light of the overall resources for the Programme and to be awarded at the request of Governments of developing countries; (b) A minimum of one scholarship in both 2002 and 2003 under the Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Memorial Fellowship on the Law of the Sea, subject to the availability of new voluntary contributions made specifically to the fellowship fund; (c) Subject to the overall resources for the Programme, assistance in the form of a travel grant for one participant from each developing country, who would be invited to possible regional courses to be organized in 2002 and 2003; and to finance the above activities from provisions in the regular budget, when appropriate, as well as from voluntary financial contributions earmarked for each of the activities concerned, which would be received as a result of the requests set out in paragraphs 12 to 14 below; 3. Expresses its appreciation to the Secretary-General for his constructive efforts to promote training and assistance in international law within the framework of the Programme in 2000 and 2001, in particular for the organization of the thirtysixth 2 and thirty-seventh 3 sessions of the International Law Seminar, held at Geneva in 2000 and 2001, respectively, and for the activities of the Office of Legal Affairs of the Secretariat related to the fellowship programme in international law and to the Hamilton Shirley Amerasinghe Memorial Fellowship on the Law of the Sea, carried out, respectively, through its Codification Division and its Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to consider the possibility of admitting, for participation in the various components of the Programme, candidates from countries willing to bear the entire cost of such participation; 5. Also requests the Secretary-General to consider the relative advantages of using available resources and voluntary contributions for regional, subregional or national courses, as against courses organized within the United Nations system; _______________ 2 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 10 (A/55/10), chap. IX, sect. E. 3 Ibid., Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 10 and corrigendum (A/56/10 and Corr. 1), chap. IX, sect. E. 2