United Nations
A/RES/61/282
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 August 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 138
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 29 June 2007
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/61/971)]
61/282. Financing of the United Nations Mission of Support
in East Timor
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financing of the
United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor 1 and the related report of the
Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2
Recalling Security Council resolution 1272 (1999) of 25 October 1999
regarding the establishment of the United Nations Transitional Administration in
East Timor and the subsequent resolutions by which the Council extended the
mandate of the Transitional Administration, the last of which was resolution
1392 (2002) of 31 January 2002, by which the mandate was extended until 20 May
2002,
Recalling also Security Council resolution 1410 (2002) of 17 May 2002, by
which the Council established the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor
as of 20 May 2002 for an initial period of twelve months, and the subsequent
resolutions by which the Council extended the mandate of the Mission, the last of
which was resolution 1573 (2004) of 16 November 2004, by which the mandate was
extended for a final period of six months until 20 May 2005,
Recalling further its resolution 54/246 A of 23 December 1999 on the
financing of the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor and its
subsequent resolutions on the financing of the United Nations Mission of Support in
East Timor, the latest of which was resolution 60/271 of 30 June 2006,
Reaffirming the general principles underlying the financing of United Nations
peacekeeping operations, as stated in General Assembly resolutions 1874 (S-IV) of
27 June 1963, 3101 (XXVIII) of 11 December 1973 and 55/235 of 23 December 2000,
Noting with appreciation that voluntary contributions have been made to the
Mission and to the Trust Fund for the United Nations Transitional Administration in
East Timor,
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06-51129
A/61/670.
A/61/852/Add.2.