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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/246 B
25 April 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 173
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/54/687/Add.1)]
54/246. Financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration in
East Timor
B1
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financing of the United Nations
Transitional Administration in East Timor2 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary Questions,3
Bearing in mind Security Council resolution 1272 (1999) of 25 October 1999 regarding the
establishment of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor,
Recalling its resolution 54/246 A of 23 December 1999,
Reaffirming that the costs of the Transitional Administration are expenses of the Organization to be
borne by Member States in accordance with Article 17, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations,
1
Consequently, resolution 54/246, in section VI of the Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fourth
Session, Supplement No. 49 (A/54/49), vol. I, becomes resolution 54/246 A.
2
A/54/769.
3
A/54/804.
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