A/RES/71/311
United Nations
Distr.: General
19 July 2017
General Assembly
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 164
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 30 June 2017
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/71/958)]
71/311. Financing of the activities arising from Security Council
resolution 1863 (2009)
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the budget performance of
the United Nations Support Office for the African Union Mission in Somalia 1 and the
report of the Secretary-General2 on the budget for the United Nations Support Office in
Somalia 3 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and
Budgetary Questions,4
Recalling Security Council resolution 1863 (2009) of 16 January 2009, in which the
Council expressed its intent to establish a United Nations peacekeeping operation in
Somalia as a follow-on force to the African Union Mission in Somalia, subject to a further
decision of the Council by 1 June 2009, and requested the Secretary-General, in order for
the forces of the Mission to be incorporated into a United Nations peacekeeping operation,
to provide a United Nations logistical support package to the Mission, including equipment
and services,
Recalling also the subsequent resolutions of the Council by which the logistical
support package for the Mission was extended, the latest of which was resolution
2355 (2017) of 26 May 2017, by which the Council extended the logistical support
package until 31 August 2017,
Recalling further its resolution 63/275 A of 7 April 2009 on the financing of the
activities arising from Security Council resolution 1863 (2009) and its subsequent
resolutions thereon, the latest of which was resolution 70/285 of 17 June 2016,
Reaffirming the general principles underlying the financing of United Nations
peacekeeping operations, as stated in its resolutions 1874 (S-IV) of 27 June 1963,
3101 (XXVIII) of 11 December 1973 and 55/235 of 23 December 2000,
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1
A/71/630.
A/71/788.
3
Pursuant to Security Council resolution 2245 (2015) of 9 November 2015, the United Nations Support
Office for the African Union Mission in Somalia was renamed the United Nations Support Office in
Somalia.
4
A/71/836/Add.6.
2
17-11012 (E)
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