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UNITED
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General Assembly
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GENERAL
A/RES/52/228
27 April 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 125
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/52/843)]
52/228. Financing of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western
Sahara
The General Assembly,
Having considered the reports of the Secretary-General on the financing of the United Nations
Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara1 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on
Administrative and Budgetary Questions,2
Bearing in mind Security Council resolution 690 (1991) of 29 April 1991, by which the Council
decided to establish the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, and the subsequent
resolutions in which the Council extended the mandate of the Mission, the latest of which was resolution
1133 (1997) of 20 October 1997,
Recalling its resolution 45/266 of 17 May 1991 on the financing of the Mission and its subsequent
resolutions and decisions thereon, the latest of which was resolution 51/2 B of 13 June 1997,
Reaffirming that the costs of the Mission are expenses of the Organization to be borne by Member
States in accordance with Article 17, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations,
1
A/52/730/Add.1 and Add.2.
2
A/52/816 and Corr.1.
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