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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/236
9 July 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 133
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/51/503/Add.1)]
51/236.
Financing of the United Nations Observer
Mission in Georgia
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financing
of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia,1 the related report of the
Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions2 and the report
of the Office of Internal Oversight Services,3
Recalling Security Council resolution 854 (1993) of 6 August 1993, by
which the Council approved the deployment of an advance team of up to ten
United Nations military observers for a period of three months and the
incorporation of the advance team into a United Nations observer mission if
such a mission was formally established by the Council,
Recalling also Security Council resolution 858 (1993) of 24 August 1993,
by which the Council decided to establish the United Nations Observer Mission
in Georgia, and the subsequent resolutions by which the Council extended the
mandate of the Observer Mission, the latest of which was resolution
1096 (1997) of 30 January 1997,
Recalling further its decision 48/475 A of 23 December 1993 on the
financing of the Observer Mission and its subsequent resolutions and decisions
thereon, the latest of which was decision 51/406 of 17 October 1996,
Reaffirming that the costs of the Observer Mission 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
A/51/793 and Add.1.
2
A/51/855.
3
A/51/432, annex.
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