A/RES/72/300
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
19 July 2018
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Seventy-second session
Agenda item 161
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 5 July 2018
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/72/911)]
72/300.
Financing of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan
The General Assembly,
Having considered the reports of the Secretary-General on the financing of the
United Nations Mission in South Sudan, 1 the note by the Secretary-General on the
financing arrangements for the Mission for the period from 1 July 2017 to 30 June
2018 2 and the related reports of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and
Budgetary Questions, 3
Recalling Security Council resolution 1996 (2011) of 8 July 2011, by which the
Council established, as from 9 July 2011, the United Nations Mission in South Sudan,
and the subsequent resolutions by which the Council extended the mandate of the
Mission, the latest of which was resolution 2406 (2018) of 15 March 2018, by which
the Council extended the mandate of the Mission until 15 March 2019,
Recalling also its resolution 66/243 A of 24 December 2011 on the financing of
the Mission and its subsequent resolutions thereon, the lat est of which was resolution
71/308 of 30 June 2017,
Reaffirming the general principles underlying the financing of United Nations
peacekeeping operations, as stated in its resolutions 1874 (S-IV) of 27 June 1963,
3101 (XXVIII) of 11 December 1973 and 55/235 of 23 December 2000,
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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Requests the Secretary-General to entrust the Head of Mission with the
task of formulating future budget proposals in full accordance with the provisions of
its resolutions 59/296 of 22 June 2005, 60/266 of 30 June 2006, 61/276 of 29 June
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A/72/624 and A/72/802.
A/72/792.
A/72/789/Add.15 and A/72/854.
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