A/RES/52/217 Page 2 2. Notes that the Secretary-General will phase out by the end of 1998 the use of gratis personnel in the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991, in accordance with the provisions of General Assembly resolution 51/243 of 15 September 1997; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to provide in the budget performance report for 1997 the actual performance indicators, with a view to facilitating the assessment of the activities for the International Tribunal; 4. Also requests the Secretary-General to include in the budget performance report for 1997 the information requested in paragraph 7 of General Assembly resolution 51/214 B of 13 June 1997; 5. Agrees that the consideration of the pension entitlement for members of the International Tribunal should be deferred until the review of the report of the Secretary-General on the emoluments and pension scheme of members of the International Court of Justice to be submitted to the General Assembly at its fifty-third session in accordance with Assembly resolution 50/216 of 23 December 1995; 6. Approves the budgetary recommendations of the Advisory Committee as contained in paragraph 21 of its report;3 7. Decides to appropriate to the Special Account for the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 a total amount of 68,829,800 United States dollars gross (62,331,600 dollars net) for the period from 1 January to 31 December 1998; 8. Recalls its resolutions 49/242 B of 20 July 1995, 50/212 A of 23 December 1995, 50/212 B and C of 11 April and 7 June 1996, 51/214 A of 18 December 1996 and 51/214 B of 13 June 1997, in which it decided, as an ad hoc and exceptional arrangement, that Member States should waive their respective shares in the credits arising from previous budgets of the United Nations Protection Force, to be transferred to the Special Account for the International Tribunal from the Special Account for the United Nations Protection Force; 9. Recognizes that the unencumbered balance of the Special Account for the United Nations Protection Force has now been depleted; 10. Decides that the financing of the appropriation for the period from 1 January to 31 December 1998 under the Special Account for the International Tribunal shall take into account the cumulative surplus fund balance of 5.6 million dollars as at 31 December 1995 and the anticipated availability of an unencumbered balance of 10,873,800 dollars gross (10 million dollars net) for 1997, and shall be set off against the aggregate amount of the appropriation, as detailed in the annex to the present resolution; 11. Takes note of the information on the expected unencumbered balance at the end of 1997, and decides to take up this issue in the context of its consideration of the budget performance report for 1997; 12. Decides to apportion the amount of 26,178,000 dollars gross (23,365,800 dollars net) among Member States in accordance with the scale of assessments applicable to the regular budget of the United Nations for the year 1998; 13. Decides also to apportion the amount of 26,178,000 dollars gross (23,365,800 dollars net) among Member States in accordance with the scale of assessments applicable to peacekeeping operations for the year 1998; /...