A/RES/64/89
United Nations
Distr.: General
19 January 2010
General Assembly
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 31
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 10 December 2009
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/64/405)]
64/89. 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 63/93 of 5 December 2008,
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 2008, 1
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Taking note of the letter dated 10 June 2009 from the Chairman of the Advisory
Commission of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in
the Near East addressed to the Commissioner-General, 2
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Deeply concerned about the critical financial situation of the Agency, as well as
its rising expenditures resulting from the deterioration of the socio-economic and
humanitarian conditions 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,
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
2F
Recalling also the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated
Personnel, 4
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1
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/64/13); and
ibid., Supplement No. 13A (A/64/13/Add.1).
2
See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-fourth Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/64/13), pp. vi
and vii.
3
Resolution 22 A (I).
4
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