UN General Assembly
1956

110. The agenda of this eleventh session contains a large number of subjects. My delegation will take part with the same zeal as in previous years in the discussions of the Fifth Committee on budgetary and administrative matters. We feel the time has come carefully to examine the functioning of the machinery of the Secretariat as well as that of the regional and functional commissions. The lively discussions held last summer in the Co-ordination Committee of the Economic and Social Council on the streamlining of the United Nations system point out the road to be followed. The rapid growth of the United Nations machinery requires a critical attitude with regard to its various branches, in order that less essential activities may be replaced by more necessary undertakings. The administrative organs of the United Nations should decide on the degree of urgency and on priorities.