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strengthening the Inter-Agency Security Management Network, and calls upon all
relevant United Nations agencies, funds and programmes to support these efforts;
27. Recognizes the need for enhanced coordination and cooperation, both at
the headquarters and the field levels, between the United Nations security
management system and non-governmental organizations on matters relating to the
safety and security of humanitarian personnel and United Nations and its associated
personnel, with a view to addressing mutual security concerns in the field;
28. Underlines the need to allocate adequate and predictable resources to the
safety and security of United Nations personnel, including through the Consolidated
Appeals Process, and encourages all States to contribute to the Trust Fund for
Security of Staff Members of the United Nations System;
29. Recalls the essential role of telecommunication resources in facilitating
the safety of humanitarian personnel and United Nations and its associated
personnel, calls upon States to consider acceding to or ratifying the Tampere
Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster
Mitigation and Relief Operations of 18 June 1998, and encourages them to facilitate
and expedite, consistent with their national laws and regulations, the use of
communications equipment in such operations, and emphasizes the importance of
States facilitating communications, inter alia, through limiting and, whenever
possible, lifting the restrictions placed on the use of communications equipment by
United Nations and its associated personnel;
30. Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its
fifty-ninth session a comprehensive and updated report on the safety and security
situation of humanitarian personnel and protection of United Nations personnel and
on the implementation of the present resolution, including the progress made by the
Secretary-General in pursuing accountability and assessing responsibility for all
individual security incidents that involve United Nations and its associated
personnel at all levels throughout the United Nations system, as well as an account
of the measures taken by Governments and the United Nations to prevent and
respond to such incidents.
75th plenary meeting
17 December 2003
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