United Nations
A/RES/68/244
General Assembly
Distr.: General
23 January 2014
Sixty-eighth session
Agenda item 133
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 27 December 2013
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/68/688)]
68/244. Managing after-service health insurance liabilities
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 58/249 A of 23 December 2003, section III of its
resolution 60/255 of 8 May 2006, its resolutions 61/264 of 4 April 2007 and 64/241
and 64/245 of 24 December 2009, and section IV of its resolution 65/259 of
24 December 2010,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General 1 and the related report
of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2
1.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;1
2.
Endorses the observations and recommendations contained in the report
of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2 subject to
the provisions of the present resolution;
3.
Recalls paragraph 13 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and
requests the Secretary-General to examine the option of broadening the mandate of
the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, based on input from the United
Nations Joint Staff Pension Board, to include the cost-effective, efficient and
sustainable administration of after-service health insurance benefits, taking into
account the advantages and disadvantages of this option, including its financial and
legal implications, without prejudice to the outcome of the examination, and to
report thereon at the seventieth session of the General Assembly;
4.
Underlines that the request made in paragraph 3 above does not prevent
the Secretary-General from considering other options;
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A/68/353.
A/68/550.
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