The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its previous resolutions on the United Nations
University,
Having considered the report of the Council of the United
Nations University on the work of the University in 1993, and
its development in 1994, as presented orally by the Rector of
the United Nations University on 7 November 1994,
Taking note of decision 4.2.2 adopted by the Executive
Board of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization at its one hundred and forty-fourth session, held
in Paris from 25 April to 5 May 1994,
Expressing its deep appreciation for the voluntary contributions
made to date by Governments and other public and private entities
in support of the University,
Noting with appreciation the efforts made by the Rector
to reduce the administrative costs and consolidate the programme
of the University, but concerned about the continuing financial
difficulties it is experiencing,
Noting with appreciation also the decision of the Council
to carry out a forward- looking assessment of the work the University
has undertaken under its medium-term perspective for 1990-1995
in order to determine its future course,
Concerned that there is insufficient awareness of the work
the University is doing, particularly among other United Nations
organs, and that the results of that work are not used as extensively
as they could be,
Recognizing that the University is making a growing number
of contributions as a global reservoir of ideas for the international
community in general and the United Nations system in particular,
and expecting that these contributions will increase in the course
of its third decade of existence, which commences next year,
1. Welcomes the fact that the Council of the United Nations
University has initiated a process of consolidating the programme
of the University and bringing it into closer correspondence with
the priorities and concerns of the United Nations and the world
academic community and stresses the need to continue this process;
2. Requests, in this connection, the Council and the Rector
of the United Nations University to take further steps to promote
the visibility of the University, particularly among Member States,
the United Nations and its agencies, to strengthen its links with
them and to enhance the dissemination of the results of its work,
and to include such steps in the report of the Council to the
General Assembly at its fifty-first session;
3. Stresses the need to enhance further coordination and
cooperation between the research and training centres of the University;
4. Requests the Secretary-General to consider innovative
measures to improve the communication and interaction between
the University and the other bodies in the United Nations system
and to ensure the integration of the work of the University into
all relevant activities of the United Nations system, taking into
account General Assembly resolution 47/199 of 22 December 1992,
so that the United Nations system may draw more extensively upon
the work of the University, and to submit a report thereon to
the General Assembly at its fifty-first session;
5. Requests the Council and the Rector to continue to make
efforts to ensure the efficiency and economy of the activities
of the University as well as its financial transparency and accountability,
and to intensify efforts to augment its Endowment Fund and to
mobilize operating contributions and other programme and project
support;
6. Also requests the Secretary-General to continue to make
efforts to ensure and enhance the real value of the capital of
the Endowment Fund of the University;
7. Appeals to the international community to make voluntary
contributions to the University, in particular to its Endowment
Fund.
92nd plenary meeting
19 December 1994