A/RES/62/87 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 28 February 2008 Sixty-second session Agenda item 128 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 2007 [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/62/563)] 62/87. Capital master plan The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 54/249 of 23 December 1999, 55/238 of 23 December 2000, 56/234 and 56/236 of 24 December 2001 and 56/286 of 27 June 2002, section II of its resolution 57/292 of 20 December 2002, its resolution 59/295 of 22 June 2005, section II of its resolution 60/248 of 23 December 2005, its resolutions 60/256 of 8 May 2006 and 60/282 of 30 June 2006, section II.B of its resolution 61/236 of 22 December 2006, its resolutions 61/246 and 61/251 of the same date, its resolution 62/225 of 22 December 2007 and its decision 58/566 of 8 April 2004, Having considered the fifth annual progress report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the capital master plan, 1 the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2 the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on its activities for the period from 1 July 2006 to 30 June 2007 3 and the report of the Board of Auditors on the capital master plan for the year ended 31 December 2006, 4 Reaffirming that the costs of the capital master plan 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, Reiterates its serious concern at the hazards, risks and deficiencies of the 1. United Nations Headquarters Building in its current condition, which endanger the safety, health and well-being of staff, delegations, visitors and tourists; Stresses the special role of the host country Government with regard to 2. support for United Nations Headquarters, in New York; 3. Notes the benefits, including economic ones, accruing to host countries from the presence of the United Nations, and the costs incurred; _______________ 1 A/62/364 and Corr.1. A/62/7/Add.4 and Corr.1. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 7A. 3 A/62/281 (Part I), paras. 72–75. 4 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 5 (A/62/5), vol. V. 2 07-46899