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General Assembly
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GENERAL
A/RES/53/211
2 February 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 123
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/53/745)]
53/211. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financing of the United Nations Observer
Mission in Angola1 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary
Questions,2
Bearing in mind Security Council resolutions 626 (1988) of 20 December 1988, by which the Council
established the United Nations Angola Verification Mission, 696 (1991) of 30 May 1991, by which the Council
decided to entrust a new mandate to the United Nations Angola Verification Mission (thenceforth called the
United Nations Angola Verification Mission II), 976 (1995) of 8 February 1995, by which the Council authorized
the establishment of a peacekeeping operation (thenceforth called the United Nations Angola Verification Mission
III), 1118 (1997) of 30 June 1997, by which the Council decided to establish, as from 1 July 1997, the United
Nations Observer Mission in Angola, and its subsequent resolutions, the latest of which was resolution 1213
(1998) of 3 December 1998,
Recalling its resolution 43/231 of 16 February 1989 on the financing of the Verification Mission and its
subsequent resolutions and decisions thereon, the latest of which was resolution 52/8 C of 26 June 1998,
Reaffirming that the costs of the Observer Mission are expenses of the Organization to be borne by Member
States in accordance with Article 17, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations,
1
A/52/799/Add.1.
2
A/53/722.
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