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" 2. Requests the Director-General to give constant attention to the factor of the relative priority of programme projects in consultation with the United Nations and the specialized agencies, and to consider as a matter of urgency the further steps which should be taken to develop effective co-ordination of the programmes of UNESCO, the United Nations, and its organs, and the specialized agencies ; " 3. Instructs the Director-General to present each year to the session of the Economic and Social Council preceding the opening of the regular session of the General Assembly, a report on the past activities of the Organization, as well as a preliminary programme of operations for the subsequent fiscal year, in order to enable UNESCO, in consultation with the Economic and Social Council and other specialized agencies, to promote the most efficient and practical use of the resources of the United Nations and the specialized agencies, by recommendations concerning the definition of responsibility for a specific project and concerning priorities for action ; "4. Instructs the Director-General to transmit the budget or budgetary estimates of UNESCO for 1949, and for each year thereafter, to the Secretary-General of the United Nations at the earliest possible date, previous to the next session of the General Assembly of the United Nations, in order that the Secretary-General may incorporate these budgets or budgetary estimates as information annexes in his annual budget estimates for transmission to the General Assembly, together with such summaries as he may deem appropriate and useful; " 5. Instructs the Director-General to consult with the United Nations and the specialized agencies through the Co-ordination Committee and in consultation with the Advisory Committee, in order to prepare recommendations for the third session of the General Conference concerning—- " {a) Measures for achieving greater uniformity in presentation of the budgets of the United Nations and of the specialized agencies with a view to providing a basis for comparison of the several budgets ; " (b) The fiscal year and schedule of meetings of the specialized agencies in their relation to the procedures envisaged in paragraph 3 above; " (c) The feasibility of improved budgetary co-ordination between the United Nations and the specialized agencies. " 6. Instructs the Director-General, in consultation with the United Nations and the specialized agencies through the Co-ordination Committee, and, where appropriate, the Advisory Committee, to promote the development of similar budgetary, administrative, and financial practices in the United Nations and the specialized agencies." Matters of Dispute Some publicity was given in the press to certain topics that led to spirited debates and, at times, to tensions. There was a tendency to " highlight" these topics in a Conference where many of the important matters under discussion were technical in nature and so had little publicity value. Yet it would be as well to mention here these matters of dispute, and to record the line taken by the New Zealand Delegation.