International efforts to meet humanitarian needs in emergency situations

Decision 1981/178

At its 40th plenary meeting, on 23 July 1981, the Council:¹

(a) Took note of the summary report on international efforts to meet humanitarian needs in emergency situations,² the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator,³ the relevant text in the annual overview report of the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination for 1980/81,⁴ the relevant paragraphs of the report of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination on the work of its twenty-first session,⁵ the relevant section of the report of the Chairman of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination and the Chairman of the Administrative Committee on Co-ordination on the Joint Meetings of those Committees,⁶ and the report of the Joint Inspection Unit entitled "Evaluation of the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator"⁷ and the comments of the Secretary-General thereon;⁸

(b) Decided to transmit the draft resolution entitled "International efforts to meet humanitarian needs in emergency situations"⁹ to the General Assembly at its thirty-sixth session, together with the documents referred to in paragraph (a) above;

(c) Decided further to invite the Secretary-General to provide the General Assembly at that session with such additional information and/or suggestions regarding the co-ordination of international efforts to meet humanitarian needs in emergency situations as might be necessary and appropriate, with a view to developing those views expressed by delegations in the Third (Programme and Co-ordination) Committee at the second regular session of 1981 of the Council which were reflective of consensus.

1 Official Records of the Economic and Social Council, 1981, Supplement No. 1A (E/1981/81/Add.1)

2 E/1981/16 and Corr.1, annex.

3 A/36/259.

4 E/1981/37 and Corr.1, chap. IV, sect. A, and annex IV.

5 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 38 (A/36/38), paras. 379-389.

6 E/1981/86, sect. II.

7 JIU/REP/80/11; transmitted to the General Assembly by a note of the Secretary-General (A/36/73)

8 A/36/73/Add.1.

9 E/1981/C3/L.11.