United Nations A/RES/55/35 General Assembly Distr.: General 3 January 2001 Fifty-fifth session Agenda item 75 Resolutions adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the First Committee (A/55/561)] 55/35. Review of the implementation of the recommendations and decisions adopted by the General Assembly at its tenth special session A T WENTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE U NITED N ATIONS I NSTITUTE FOR D ISARMAMENT R ESEARCH The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 34/83 M of 11 December 1979, in which it requested the Secretary-General to establish the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research on the basis of the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General, 1 Reaffirming its resolution 39/148 H of 17 December 1984, in which it approved the statute of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, renewed the invitation to Governments to consider making voluntary contributions to the Institute and requested the Secretary-General to continue to give the Institute administrative and other support, Recalling its resolution 45/62 G of 4 December 1990 on the tenth anniversary of the Institute, Considering the continuing need for the international community to have access to independent and in-depth research on security issues and prospects for disarmament, taking note of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the in-depth evaluation of the disarmament programme, 2 in which the Office indicated the erosion of the value of the United Nations subvention to the Institute in real terms and recommended the development of proposals for alleviating difficulties regarding the current financial and organizational arrangements adopted in implementation of the statute of the Institute and that those proposals should be submitted to the General Assembly for consideration at its fifty-fifth session, and having considered the annual report of the Director of the Institute and report of the 1 2 00 56149 A/34/589. See E/AC.51/1999/2.