A/RES/75/270
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
20 April 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 147
Joint Inspection Unit
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 16 April 2021
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/75/830, para. 6)]
75/270.
Joint Inspection Unit
The General Assembly,
Recalling its previous resolutions on the Joint Inspection Unit, in particular
resolutions 31/192 of 22 December 1976, 50/233 of 7 June 1996, 54/16 of 29 October
1999, 56/245 of 24 December 2001, 57/284 A and B of 20 December 2002, 58/286 of
8 April 2004, 59/267 of 23 December 2004, 60/258 of 8 May 2006, 61/238 of
22 December 2006, 61/260 of 4 April 2007, 62/226 of 22 December 2007, 62/246 of
3 April 2008, 63/272 of 7 April 2009, 64/262 of 29 March 2010, 65/270 of 4 April
2011, 66/259 of 9 April 2012, 67/256 of 12 April 2013, 68/266 of 9 April 2014, 69/275
of 2 April 2015, 70/257 of 1 April 2016, 71/281 of 6 April 2017, 72/269 of 4 April
2018 and 73/287 of 15 April 2019,
Reaffirming the statute of the Unit 1 and the unique role of the Unit as the only
external and independent system-wide inspection, evaluation and investigation body,
Having considered the report of the Unit for 2020 and programme of work for
2021 2 and the note by the Secretary-General on the report of the Unit for 2020, 3
1.
Takes note with appreciation of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit for
2020 and programme of work for 2021;
2.
Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General on the report of the Unit
for 2020;
3.
Stresses the importance of the oversight functions of the Unit in
identifying concrete managerial, administrative and programming questions within
the participating organizations and providing the Gen eral Assembly and other
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Resolution 31/192, annex.
Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventy-fifth Session, Supplement No. 34 (A/75/34).
A/75/725.
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