Committee Takes Up 14 Reports from Board of Auditors; Board Chairman Says Some Reports 'Qualified' for Insufficient Evidence
The General Assembly should help in the endeavours to eradicate colonialism by the year 2000, the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) was told this morning as it discussed the various programmes in the proposed medium-term plan for 1998-2001.
A medium-term plan that gave secondary importance to economic and social development activities was not acceptable, the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) was told this morning as it continued its general discussion on the proposed medium-term plan for the period 1998-2001.
In Press Release GA/AB/3102 issued today, the second full paragraph on page 18 should read:
The General Assembly would raise from the previous limit of $12,000 payments that could be made to United Nations system pension-drawing retirees to $22,000 per calendar year, should it adopt a draft decision approved this morning without a vote by the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) as it considered human resources management.
