United Nations A/RES/59/300 General Assembly Distr.: General 30 June 2005 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 77 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 June 2005 [on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee (Fourth Committee) (A/59/472/Add.2)] 59/300. Comprehensive review of a strategy to eliminate future sexual exploitation and abuse in United Nations peacekeeping operations The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 2006 (XIX) of 18 February 1965 and all other relevant resolutions, Recalling in particular its resolution 58/315 of 1 July 2004, Recalling its resolution 59/281 of 29 March 2005, in which it endorsed the recommendation in paragraph 56 of the report of the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations 1 that the Secretary-General make available to the United Nations membership, no later than the first week of April 2005, a comprehensive report on the issue of sexual exploitation and abuse by military, civilian police and civilian personnel in United Nations peacekeeping operations, Noting that the Secretary-General, on 24 March 2005, transmitted to the President of the General Assembly a report of his Adviser concerning sexual exploitation and abuse by United Nations peacekeeping personnel, 2 Affirming the need for the Organization to adopt without delay a comprehensive strategy to eliminate future sexual exploitation and abuse in United Nations peacekeeping operations as recommended by the Special Committee and the Adviser to the Secretary-General, Convinced of the need for the United Nations to take strong and effective steps in this regard, 1. Welcomes the report of the Adviser to the Secretary-General;2 _______________ 1 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 19 (A/59/19/Rev.1), part one, chap. III, sect. D. 2 See A/59/710. 04-49513