The balance of maintenance received is treated as means and assessed accordingly. This has been implemented for all existing and new OFP clients.

In this new agenda, the gains from liberalizing world markets must be carefully balanced with the maintenance of world peace, global economic stability, human development and the sustainable management of the world's resources.

Recent UNU work makes specific proposals that a new global message and a new institutional set-up are required under the present international circumstances — one where the gains from liberalizing world markets must be carefully balanced with the maintenance of world peace, global economic stability, human development, and the sustainable management of the world's resources.

In particular, they should be based on the United Nations purposes and principles, as set out in the Charter of the United Nations, and a common and systematic approach to partnerships should include the following principles: (i) common purpose; (ii) transparency; (iii) give no unfair advantages to any partner of the United Nations; (iv) mutual benefit and mutual respect; (v) accountability; (vi) respect for the modalities of the United Nations; (vii) balanced representation of relevant partners from developed and developing countries and countries with economies in transition; (viii) sectoral and geographic balance; and (ix) maintenance of the independence and neutrality of the United Nations system in general and the agencies in particular.