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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/54/18
22 November 1999
Fifty-fourth session
Agenda item 130 (a)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/54/510)]
54/18.
Financing of the United Nations Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 52/238 of 26 June 1998 and 53/229 of 8 June 1999,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financing of the United Nations IraqKuwait Observation Mission1 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and
Budgetary Questions,2
1. Notes with deep concern the mishandling of this matter by the Administration, as observed by the
Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions in paragraph 4 of its report;2
2. Requests the Board of Auditors to undertake a comprehensive audit of the United Nations IraqKuwait Observation Mission, in particular the question of the payment of mission subsistence allowance,
as a matter of priority;
3. Requests the Secretary-General to submit a comprehensive report on this question within a period
not exceeding three months following the adoption of the present resolution, for consideration during the first
part of its resumed fifty-fourth session;
1
A/53/1023.
2
A/54/418.
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