A/RES/75/247
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 January 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda items 139 and 151
Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial
functioning of the United Nations
Report on the activities of the Office of Internal
Oversight Services
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 31 December 2020
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/75/671, para. 6)]
75/247.
Report on the activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services
The General Assembly,
I
Activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services
Recalling its resolutions 48/218 B of 29 July 1994, 54/244 of 23 December
1999, 59/272 of 23 December 2004, 60/259 of 8 May 2006, 63/265 of 24 December
2008, 64/232 of 22 December 2009, 64/263 of 29 March 2010, 65/250 of
24 December 2010, 66/236 of 24 December 2011, 67/258 of 12 April 2013, 68/21 of
4 December 2013, 69/252 and 69/253 of 29 December 2014, 70/111 of 14 December
2015, 71/7 of 27 October 2016, 72/18 of 1 December 2017, 73/275 of 22 December
2018 and 74/256 of 27 December 2019,
Having considered the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on its
activities for the period from 1 July 2019 to 30 June 2020, 1
1.
Reaffirms its primary role in the consideration of and action taken on
reports submitted to it;
2.
Also reaffirms its oversight role and the role of the Fifth Committee in
administrative and budgetary matters;
3.
Further reaffirms the independence and the separate and distinct roles of
the internal and external oversight mechanisms;
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