United Nations
A/RES/55/225
General Assembly
Distr.: General
16 January 2001
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 127
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/55/691)]
55/225. Financing of the International Tribunal for the
Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations
of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the
Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991
The General Assembly,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General on the financing of the
International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious
Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the
Former Yugoslavia since 1991, 1 the related report of the Advisory Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary Questions 2 and the oral statement made by the
Chairman of the Advisory Committee to the Fifth Committee on 6 December 2000, 3
Recalling its resolution 47/235 of 14 September 1993 on the financing of the
International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and its subsequent resolutions
thereon, the latest of which were resolutions 54/239 A of 23 December 1999 and
54/239 B of 15 June 2000,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General on the budget performance
of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for 1999 4 and the comments
of the Advisory Committee thereon in its report,2
Taking note also of Security Council resolution 1329 (2000) of 30 November
2000 concerning the establishment of a pool of ad litem judges in the International
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia,
1.
Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of
the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2 subject to the
provisions of the present resolution;
2.
Decides that the budget of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution
of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law
1
A/55/517 and Corr.1 and Add.1.
A/55/642.
3
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Fifth Committee, 35th meeting
(A/C.5/55/SR.35), and corrigendum.
4
A/55/623.
2
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