A/RES/49/160 Page 2 3. Urges the Secretary-General to take appropriate actions so that the requests and recommendations made by the Assembly in its resolution 48/111 and by the Economic and Social Council in its resolution 1994/51 are implemented; 4. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Economic and Social Council, through the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, an updated report, which would contain, inter alia, the information requested in Council decision 1993/235 of 27 July 1993 and in paragraphs 2 and 3 of General Assembly resolution 48/111, as well as the additional information requested by the Advisory Committee; 5. Requests the Economic and Social Council to re-examine the issue, at a resumed session to take place after the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace and before the Third Committee of the General Assembly considers the item on the advancement of women at the fiftieth session, taking into account the deliberations of the Commission on the Status of Women at its thirty-ninth session, of the Fourth World Conference on Women and of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions concerning institutional arrangements in the United Nations system for the advancement of women; 6. Decides to take a final decision at its fiftieth session on the proposed merger of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women and the United Nations Development Fund for Women, taking into account the recommendations made by the Economic and Social Council and the deliberations of the Commission on the Status of Women at its thirty-ninth session and of the Fourth World Conference on Women concerning the institutional arrangements in the United Nations system for the advancement of women; 7. Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fiftieth session on the implementation of the present resolution. 94th plenary meeting 23 December 1994