United Nations General Assembly A/RES/60/89 Distr.: General 11 January 2006 Sixtieth session Agenda item 99 (b) Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 8 December 2005 [on the report of the First Committee (A/60/465)] 60/89. Twenty-fifth anniversary of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research The General Assembly, Recalling its resolution 34/83 M of 11 December 1979, in which it requested the Secretary-General to establish the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research on the basis of the recommendations contained in the report of the Secretary-General, 1 Reaffirming its resolution 39/148 H of 17 December 1984, in which it approved the statute of the Institute, renewed the invitation to Governments to consider making voluntary contributions to the Institute and requested the Secretary-General to continue to give the Institute administrative and other support, Recalling its resolution 45/62 G of 4 December 1990 on the tenth anniversary of the Institute and its resolution 55/35 A of 20 November 2000 on the twentieth anniversary of the Institute, Considering the continuing need for the international community to have access to independent and in-depth research on security issues and prospects for disarmament and non-proliferation, Underlining the particularly relevant contribution of the Institute to thinking and analysis on international security issues in the current context, Taking note of the audit report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the Institute, which makes a positive assessment of the impact of the work of the Institute and recommends that the Institute should seek adequate funding from the regular budget to better meet the costs of its core staff and that the Institute, in consultation with its Board of Trustees, should establish specific posts for the core functions of the Institute, Taking note also of the report of the Secretary-General on the work of the Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters, 2 in which, after considering the audit report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services, the Board recommended that the _______________ 1 2 05-49294 A/34/589. A/60/285.