United Nations
A/RES/67/116
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 January 2013
Sixty-seventh session
Agenda item 52
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 December 2012
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/67/423)]
67/116. Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works
Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 194 (III) of 11 December 1948, 212 (III) of
19 November 1948, 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949 and all subsequent related
resolutions, including its resolution 66/74 of 9 December 2011,
Recalling also the relevant resolutions of the Security Council,
Having considered the report of the Commissioner-General of the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East covering
the period from 1 January to 31 December 2011, 1
Taking note of the letter dated 19 June 2012 from the Chair of the Advisory
Commission of the Agency to the Commissioner-General, 2
Deeply concerned about the extremely critical financial situation of the
Agency, caused in part by the structural underfunding of the Agency, as well as its
rising expenditures resulting from the deterioration of the socioeconomic and
humanitarian conditions and the rising instability in the region and their significant
negative impact on the provision of necessary Agency services to the Palestine
refugees, including its emergency-related and development programmes in all fields
of operation,
Recalling Articles 100, 104 and 105 of the Charter of the United Nations and
the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, 3
Recalling also the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated
Personnel, 4
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1
Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/67/13).
Ibid., pp. vi–viii.
3
Resolution 22 A (I).
4
United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2051, No. 35457.
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