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12. Calls upon all States to promote a climate of respect for the security of
United Nations and humanitarian personnel;
13. Requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary measures, falling
within his responsibilities, to ensure that security matters are an integral part of the
planning for existing and newly mandated United Nations operations and that such
precautions extend to all United Nations and its associated personnel;
14. Also requests the Secretary-General to take the necessary measures to
ensure that United Nations and other personnel carrying out activities in fulfilment
of the mandate of a United Nations operation are properly informed about the
conditions under which they are called to operate, including relevant customs and
traditions in the host country, and the standards that they are required to meet,
including those contained in relevant domestic and international law, and that
adequate training in security, human rights and humanitarian law is provided so as to
enhance their security and effectiveness in accomplishing their functions, and
reaffirms the necessity for all other humanitarian organizations to provide their
personnel with similar support;
15. Stresses the need to ensure that all United Nations staff members receive
adequate security training prior to their deployment to the field, the need to attach a
high priority to the improvement of stress counselling services available to United
Nations staff members, including through the implementation of a comprehensive
security and stress management training programme for United Nations staff
throughout the system, and the need to make available to the Secretary-General the
means for this purpose;
16. Encourages all States to contribute to the Trust Fund for Security of Staff
Members of the United Nations System;
17. Reaffirms the need to strengthen the Office of the United Nations
Security Coordinator, and in this regard expresses its appreciation for the
recommendation of the Secretary-General to appoint a full-time Security
Coordinator so as to enable the Office to enhance its capacity in the discharge of its
duties, in consultation with the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs
of the Secretariat and appropriate agencies within the Inter-Agency Standing
Committee, and calls for expeditious consideration of the recommendation;
18. Recognizes the need for a strengthened and comprehensive security
management system for the United Nations system, both at headquarter and field
level, and requests the United Nations system, as well as Member States, to take all
appropriate measures needed to that end;
19. Encourages all States to become parties to and respect fully their
obligations under the relevant international instruments, including the Convention
on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel;
20. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the scope of legal
protection under the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated
Personnel, 18 and decides that the Sixth Committee shall consider the report at the
fifty-sixth session of the General Assembly, under an item entitled “Scope of legal
protection under the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated
Personnel”;
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