A/RES/62/256
United Nations
Distr.: General
22 July 2008
General Assembly
Sixty-second session
Agenda item 144
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 20 June 2008
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/62/869)]
62/256. Financing of the United Nations Organization Mission
in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The General Assembly,
Having considered the reports of the Secretary-General on the financing of the
United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 1 and
the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary
Questions, 2
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Recalling Security Council resolutions 1258 (1999) of 6 August 1999 and
1279 (1999) of 30 November 1999 regarding, respectively, the deployment to the
region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo of military liaison personnel and
the establishment of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic
Republic of the Congo, and the subsequent resolutions by which the Council
extended the mandate of the Mission, the latest of which was resolution 1794 (2007)
of 21 December 2007, by which the Council extended the mandate of the Mission
until 31 December 2008,
Recalling also its resolution 54/260 A of 7 April 2000 on the financing of the
Mission and its subsequent resolutions thereon, the latest of which was resolution
61/281 of 29 June 2007,
Recalling further its resolution 58/315 of 1 July 2004,
Reaffirming the general principles underlying the financing of United Nations
peacekeeping operations, as stated in General Assembly resolutions 1874 (S-IV) of
27 June 1963, 3101 (XXVIII) of 11 December 1973 and 55/235 of 23 December
2000,
Noting with appreciation that voluntary contributions have been made to the
Mission,
Mindful of the fact that it is essential to provide the Mission with the financial
resources necessary to enable it to fulfil its responsibilities under the relevant
resolutions of the Security Council,
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07-47913
A/62/737 and A/62/755.
A/62/781/Add.8.