A/RES/61/235. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2006

• Resolution Number: A/RES/61/235
• Year: 2006
• Session: 61st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/61/235

General Assembly Distr.: General

6 February 2007

Sixty-first session

Agenda item 118

06-50847

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2006

[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/61/653)]

61/235. 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,

56/253 of 24 December 2001, 57/282 of 20 December 2002, 58/268 and 58/269 of

23 December 2003, 59/275 of 23 December 2004 and 60/257 of 8 May 2006,

Recalling also

the terms of reference of the Committee for Programme and

Coordination, as outlined in the annex to Economic and Social Council resolution

2008 (LX) of 14 May 1976,

Having considered

the report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination

on the work of its forty-sixth session,

1

the proposed strategic framework for the

period 2008–2009: part one: plan outline

2

and part two: biennial programme plan,

3

the proposed revisions to the biennial programme plan and priorities for the period

2006–2007,

4

the report of the Secretary-General on the programme performance of

the United Nations for the biennium 2004–2005

5

and the report of the Office of

Internal Oversight Services on strengthening the role of evaluation and the

application of evaluation findings in programme design, delivery and policy

directives,

6

1.

Re-emphasizes

the role of the plenary and the Main Committees of the

General Assembly in reviewing and taking action on the appropriate recommendations

of the Committee for Programme and Coordination relevant to their work, in

accordance with regulation 4.10 of the Regulations and Rules Governing Programme

Planning, the Programme Aspects of the Budget, the Monitoring of Implementation

and the Methods of Evaluation;

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1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 16 and corrigendum

(A/61/16 and Corr.1).

2 A/61/6 (Part One).

3 A/61/6 (Prog. 1-13, 14/Rev.1 and 15-27). For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly,

Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 6 (A/61/6/Rev.1).

4 A/61/125.

5 A/61/64.

6 See A/61/83 and Corr.1.

7 ST/SGB/2000/8.