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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/247
17 July 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 142 (a)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/52/453/Add.3)]
52/247.
Third-party liability: temporal and financial limitations
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 51/13 of 4 November 1996 on third-party liability against the United Nations
resulting or arising from peacekeeping operations conducted by the Organization, in which the Assembly
requested the Secretary-General to develop specific measures, including criteria and guidelines for
implementing the principles of temporal and financial limitations on the liability of the United Nations,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on third-party liability1 and the related report
of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,2
1.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on third-party liability;1
2. Also takes note of the observations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary Questions;2
3. Endorses the proposals of the Secretary-General3 for implementing the principles of temporal
and financial limitations on the liability of the Organization;
1
A/51/903.
2
A/52/410.
3
See, in particular, A/51/903, sect. IV.
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