United Nations
A/RES/70/247
General Assembly
Distr.: General
15 January 2016
Seventieth session
Agenda item 134
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2015
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/70/648)]
70/247. Questions relating to the proposed programme budget for
the biennium 2016–2017
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolutions 41/213 of 19 December 1986, 42/211 of
21 December 1987, 45/248 B, section VI, of 21 December 1990, 55/231 of
23 December 2000, 56/253 of 24 December 2001, 58/269 and 58/270 of
23 December 2003, 59/276, section XI, of 23 December 2004, 60/283 of 7 July
2006, 61/263 of 4 April 2007, 62/236 of 22 December 2007, 63/262 of 24 December
2008, 64/243 of 24 December 2009, 65/259 of 24 December 2010, 66/246 and
66/247 of 24 December 2011, 68/246 of 27 December 2013 and 69/262 and 69/264
of 29 December 2014,
Reaffirming also the respective mandates of the Advisory Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary Questions and the Committee for Programme and
Coordination in the consideration of the proposed programme budget,
Reaffirming further the role of the General Assembly, through the Fifth
Committee, in carrying out a thorough analysis and approval of posts and financial
resources, as well as of human resources policies,
Having considered the proposed programme budget for the biennium
2016–2017,1 the ninth progress report of the Secretary-General on the implementation
of projects financed from the Development Account, 2 the report of the Independent
Audit Advisory Committee on internal oversight: proposed programme budget for
the biennium 2016–2017 3 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 4
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1
A/70/6 (Introduction), (Sect. 1), (Sect. 2) and Corr.1, (Sect. 3) and Corr.1, (Sect. 4), (Sect. 5) and Corr.1,
(Sect. 6), (Sect. 7), (Sect. 8) and Corr.1, (Sects. 9–12), (Sect. 13) and Add.1/Rev.1, (Sect. 14) and Corr.1,
(Sect. 15), (Sect. 16), (Sect. 17) and Corr.1, (Sect. 18) and Corr.1, (Sects. 19–23), (Sect. 24) and Corr.1,
(Sects. 25–27), (Sect. 28) and Corr.1 and 2, (Sect. 29), (Sect. 29A) and Corr.1, (Sect. 29B), (Sect. 29C) and
Corr.1, (Sect. 29D), (Sect. 29E), (Sect. 29F) and Corr.1, (Sect. 29G), (Sect. 29H) and (Sects. 30–36) and
(Income Sects. 1–3).
2
A/70/97.
3
A/70/86.
4
Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventieth Session, Supplement No. 7 (A/70/7).
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