A/RES/54/240
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Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General on the budget performance of the International
Tribunal for Rwanda for 19983 and the comments of the Advisory Committee thereon,4
1. Deeply regrets the delay in the submission of the report of the Secretary-General on the financing
of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other
Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan
Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring
States between 1 January and 31 December 1994,1 as well as the failure to submit to the General Assembly
the report of the expert review group on the effective operation and functioning of that Tribunal and 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, as requested in its
resolution 53/213;
2. Notes with concern that, owing to the late submission of the report on the financing of the
International Tribunal for Rwanda, the General Assembly did not have adequate time to consider it properly;
3. Requests that future reports on the financing of the International Tribunal for Rwanda be submitted
by 1 October of the year in which they are to be considered;
4. Requests the Secretary-General to issue, as a matter of priority, the report of the expert review
group in the six official languages of the United Nations;
5. Also requests the Secretary-General to obtain comments and observations from the International
Tribunal for Rwanda on the report of the expert review group, and to submit them, through the Advisory
Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, to the General Assembly for consideration at its
resumed fifty-fourth session;
6. Further requests the Secretary-General to improve further the workload indicators and to use them,
as much as possible, as the basis for supporting the resources requested in the budget estimates;
7. Approves the recommendations of the Advisory Committee5 on the note of the Secretary-General
on conditions of service for the judges of the International Tribunal for Rwanda and the International
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia6 concerning the establishment of a lump-sum payment for survivors of
the judges;
8. Also approves the budgetary recommendations of the Advisory Committee as contained in
paragraph 71 of its report,7 subject to the provisions of the present resolution;
3
A/54/496 and Corr.1.
4
See A/54/646.
5
A/54/646, para. 75.
6
A/C.5/54/30.
7
A/54/646.
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