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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/53/47
3 February 1999
Fifty-third session
Agenda item 83
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee
(Fourth Committee) (A/53/597)]
53/47.
Working Group on the Financing of the United Nations Relief and
Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 2656 (XXV) of 7 December 1970, 2728 (XXV) of 15 December 1970, 2791
(XXVI) of 6 December 1971, 52/58 of 10 December 1997 and the previous resolutions on this question,
Recalling also its decision 36/462 of 16 March 1982, by which it took note of the special report of
the Working Group on the Financing of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine
Refugees in the Near East,1
Having considered the report of the Working Group,2
Taking into account the report of the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works
Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East for the period from 1 July 1997 to 30 June 1998,3
1
A/36/866 and Corr.1; see also A/37/591.
2
A/53/569.
3
Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/53/13).
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