A/RES/49/143 Page 2 Aware of the importance and urgency of securing a viable financial basis for the Organization, Aware also that the solution of the serious financial situation of the Organization calls for political efforts, Reaffirming the role of the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly with regard to budgetary and financial matters and the importance of making every effort to establish the broadest possible agreement in accordance with the practice established in the Fifth Committee and in conformity with Assembly resolution 41/213 of 19 December 1986, 1. Decides to consider additional measures aimed at ensuring a sound and viable financial basis for the Organization; 2. Also decides, to this end, to establish a high-level open-ended working group under the chairmanship of the President of the General Assembly and with two vice-chairmen; 3. Requests the high-level working group to submit to it, through the Fifth Committee, a report on the progress of its work, with the broadest possible agreement, for review before the end of its forty-ninth session. 94th plenary meeting 23 December 1994