United Nations A/RES/57/282 General Assembly Distr.: General 29 January 2003 Fifty-seventh session Agenda item 113 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/57/650)] 57/282. Programme planning The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 37/234 of 21 December 1982, 38/227 A of 20 December 1983, 41/213 of 19 December 1986, 55/234 of 23 December 2000 and 56/253 of 24 December 2001, Having examined the proposed revisions submitted by the Secretary-General1 concerning the medium-term plan for the period 2002–2005,2 Having considered the report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination on the work of its forty-second session,3 Having also considered the note by the Secretary-General on the proposed revisions to programme 1, Political affairs, of the medium-term plan for the period 2002–2005,4 the report of the Secretary-General on the programme performance of the United Nations for the biennium 2000–2001,5 the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on strengthening the role of evaluation findings in programme design, delivery and policy directives6 and the note by the Secretariat7 on a new subprogramme on financing for development and revisions to relevant subprogrammes under programme 7, Economic and social affairs, of the medium-term plan for the period 2002–2005, Having further considered the letter dated 15 October 2002 from the Chairman of the Sixth Committee addressed to the Chairman of the Fifth Committee8 and the letter dated 31 October 2002 from the President of the General Assembly addressed to the Chairman of the Fifth Committee,9 _______________ 1 A/57/6 (Prog.1 and Corr.1, Prog.2, 3, 5, 7–19 and 24–26). Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 6 (A/55/6/Rev.1). 3 Ibid., Fifty-seventh session, Supplement No. 16 (A/57/16). 4 A/C.5/57/12. 5 A/57/62. 6 See A/57/68. 7 A/C.5/57/19. 8 A/C.5/57/17. 9 A/C.5/57/20. 2 02 56017