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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/238
24 September 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 124 (a)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/52/933)]
52/238. Financing of the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission
The General Assembly,
Having considered the reports of the Secretary-General on the financing of the United Nations IraqKuwait Observation Mission1 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and
Budgetary Questions,2
Recalling Security Council resolutions 687 (1991) of 3 April 1991 and 689 (1991) of 9 April 1991,
by which the Council decided to establish the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission and to
review the question of its termination or continuation every six months,
Recalling also its resolution 45/260 of 3 May 1991 on the financing of the Observation Mission and
its subsequent resolutions and decisions thereon, the latest of which was resolution 51/234 of 13 June
1997,
Reaffirming that the costs of the Observation Mission that are not covered by voluntary contributions
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/52/790 and Corr.1 and Add.1 and Add.1/Corr.1 and A/52/824.
2
A/52/860/Add.7.
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