A/RES/73/275
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
4 January 2019
Seventy-third session
Agenda item 146
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 22 December 2018
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/73/672)]
73/275.
Report on the activities of the Office of Internal
Oversight Services
The General Assembly,
I
Activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services
Recalling its resolutions 48/218 B of 29 July 1994, 54/244 of 23 December
1999, 59/272 of 23 December 2004, 60/259 of 8 May 2006, 63/265 of 24 December
2008, 64/232 of 22 December 2009, 64/263 of 29 March 2010, 65/250 of
24 December 2010, 66/236 of 24 December 2011, 67/258 of 12 April 2013, 68/21 of
4 December 2013, 69/252 and 69/253 of 29 December 2014, 70/111 of 14 December
2015, 71/7 of 27 October 2016 and 72/18 of 1 December 2017,
Having considered the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on its
activities for the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June 2018, 1
1.
Reaffirms its primary role in the consideration of and action taken on
reports submitted to it;
2.
Also reaffirms its oversight role and the role of the Fifth Committee in
administrative and budgetary matters;
3.
Further reaffirms the independence and the separate and distinct roles of
the internal and external oversight mechanisms;
4.
Recognizes the important roles and operational independence of the
oversight bodies, including the Office of Internal Oversight Services of the
Secretariat, in contributing to improvements in the effectiveness, transparency and
accountability of the Organization;
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