United Nations General Assembly A/RES/58/244 Distr.: General 19 February 2004 Fifty-eighth session Agenda item 110 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2003 [on the report of the Third Committee (A/58/501)] 58/244. Future operation of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women The General Assembly, Recalling its previous resolutions on the subject, in particular resolutions 55/219 of 23 December 2000, 56/125 of 19 December 2001 and 57/175 of 18 December 2002, Recalling also that, in its resolution 56/125, it decided to establish a working group mandated to make recommendations to the General Assembly on the future operation of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, Reaffirming its resolution 57/311 of 18 June 2003 on the financial situation of the Institute, Welcoming Economic and Social Council resolution 2003/57 of 24 July 2003, in which the Council decided to amend articles III and IV of the statute of the Institute, Welcoming also the efforts and the consistency in the work of the Working Group on the Future Operation of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women in promoting a comprehensive approach to the revitalization and strengthening of the Institute, which has led to the adoption of important institutional and political changes that are contributing to the strengthening of the Institute, Welcomes the report of the Working Group on the Future Operation of the 1. International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women, 1 in which the Working Group, inter alia, reaffirmed the mandate of the Institute in the field of gender equality and the advancement of women and stressed the need for it to be reformed and revitalized, as recommended in its previous report 2 and endorsed by the General Assembly in its resolution 57/175; _______________ 1 2 03 50916 A/58/540. A/57/330 and Add.1.