A/RES/53/214
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Having considered the relevant reports of the Secretary-General14 and the related reports of the Advisory
Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,15
1. Approves the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary
Questions on the emoluments, pensions and other conditions of service of members of the International Court
of Justice;
2. Concurs with the observation made by the Advisory Committee in paragraph 21 of its report 16
regarding a revision to article 7, paragraph 2, of the Pension Scheme Regulations for Members of the
International Court of Justice;
3. Decides, in this regard, to amend article 7, paragraph 2, of the Pension Scheme Regulations for
Members of the International Court of Justice to read as follows:17
“Pensions in payment shall be automatically revised by the same percentage and at the same date
as salary adjustments.”;
4. Approves the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on the emoluments, pensions and other
conditions of service of the judges of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for
Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since
1991 and the judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for
Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda
and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of
Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994;
5. Also approves the travel and subsistence regulations for the judges of the International Tribunal for
the former Yugoslavia and the judges of the International Tribunal for Rwanda contained in annex III to the report
of the Secretary-General;18
6. Further approves the pension scheme regulations for the judges of the International Tribunal for the
former Yugoslavia and the pension scheme regulations for the judges of the International Tribunal for Rwanda
contained in annexes IV and V, respectively, to the report of the Secretary-General, with consequential
modifications resulting from the decisions taken by the General Assembly in the present resolution;
7. Decides that the emoluments, pensions, and other conditions of service for the members of the
International Court of Justice, the judges of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the judges
of the International Tribunal for Rwanda shall be reviewed at its fifty-sixth session;
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14
A/C.5/53/11 and A/52/520.
15
A/52/696 and A/52/697; and A/51/7/Add.8 and A/53/7/Add.6. For the final text, see Official Records of the
General Assembly, Fifty-first Session, Supplement No. 7A; and ibid., Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 7A.
16
A/53/7/Add.6. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third Session,
Supplement No. 7A.
17
For the text of the Regulations amended pursuant to resolutions 45/250 B and 48/252 B, see A/52/520,
annex II.
18
A/52/520.
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