A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/52/245 24 September 1998 Fifty-second session Agenda item 140 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/52/941)] 52/245. Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force The General Assembly, Having considered the reports of the Secretary-General on the financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force1 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,2 Recalling Security Council resolutions 983 (1995) of 31 March 1995, by which the Council decided that the United Nations Protection Force within the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia should be known as the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force, and 1142 (1997) of 4 December 1997, by which the Council extended the mandate of the Force for a final period, until 31 August 1998, Recalling also its decision 50/481 of 11 April 1996 on the financing of the Force and its subsequent resolutions thereon, the latest of which was resolution 51/154 B of 13 June 1997, Reaffirming that the costs of the Force 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/52/768 and A/52/805. 2 A/52/860/Add.1. 98-77449 /...