A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/51/228 16 May 1997 Fifty-first session Agenda item 165 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/51/844)] 51/228. Financing of the Military Observer Group of the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala1 The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financing of the Military Observer Group of the United Nations Mission for the Verification of Human Rights and of Compliance with the Commitments of the Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights in Guatemala2 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,3 Recalling Security Council resolution 1094 (1997) of 20 January 1997, in which the Council authorized the attachment to the United Nations Mission for the Verification of Human Rights and of Compliance with the Commitments of the Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights in Guatemala of a group of one hundred and fifty-five military observers and requisite medical personnel for a period of three months, Recognizing that the costs of the Observer Group 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, Recognizing also that, in order to meet the expenditures caused by the Observer Group, a different procedure is required from that applied to meet expenditures of the regular budget of the United Nations, 1 In accordance with resolution 51/198 B, paragraph 5, the United Nations Mission for the Verification of Human Rights and of Compliance with the Commitments of the Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights in Guatemala has been renamed the United Nations Verification Mission in Guatemala. 2 A/51/815. 3 A/51/826. 97-77287 /...