United Nations A/RES/58/253 General Assembly Distr.: General 13 January 2004 Fifty-eighth session Agenda item 131 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2003 [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/58/579)] 58/253. 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 The General Assembly, Having considered the documents submitted by the Secretary-General on the financing for the biennium 2004–2005 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 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2 Recalling its resolution 49/251 of 20 July 1995, on the financing of the International Tribunal for Rwanda, and its subsequent resolutions thereon, the latest of which were resolutions 56/248 A of 24 December 2001, 56/248 B of 27 March 2002 and 57/289 of 20 December 2002, Recalling also Security Council resolution 1503 (2003) of 28 August 2003 concerning the creation of a new position of Prosecutor of the International Tribunal for Rwanda, Recalling further Security Council resolution 1512 (2003) of 27 October 2003 concerning the authorization for the use of up to nine additional ad litem judges in the International Tribunal for Rwanda, Welcoming the developments and improvements in the management and the activities of the Tribunal thus far achieved during the biennium 2002–2003, _______________ 1 2 03 50970 A/58/269, A/58/366, A/58/368, A/58/550 and A/58/367. A/58/554.