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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
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