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General Assembly
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GENERAL
A/RES/54/274
21 July 2000
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 145
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/54/905)]
54/274. Financing of the Civilian Police Support Group
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financing of the Civilian Police Support
Group1 and the related reports of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,2
Recalling Security Council resolution 1037 (1996) of 15 January 1996, by which the Council established
the United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium for an
initial period of twelve months, and resolution 1145 (1997) of 19 December 1997, in which the Council noted
the termination of the Transitional Administration on 15 January 1998 and established, with effect from
16 January 1998, the Civilian Police Support Group for a single period of up to nine months,
Recalling also its decision 50/481 of 11 April 1996 on the financing of the Transitional Administration
and its subsequent resolutions thereon, the latest of which was resolution 53/234 of 8 June 1999,
Reaffirming that the costs of the Transitional Administration and the Support Group 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,
Recalling its previous decisions regarding the fact that, in order to meet the expenditures caused by the
Transitional Administration and the Support Group, a different procedure is required from that applied to
meet expenditures of the regular budget of the United Nations,
1
A/54/713.
2
A/54/823 and A/54/841.
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