United Nations A/RES/59/272 General Assembly Distr.: General 2 February 2005 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 119 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2004 [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/59/649)] 59/272. Review of the implementation of General Assembly resolutions 48/218 B and 54/244 The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 48/218 B of 29 July 1994 and 54/244 of 23 December 1999, 1. Decides to maintain the reporting procedures for the Office of Internal Oversight Services in full compliance with its resolutions 48/218 B and 54/244, and in this context requests the Secretary-General to ensure that: (a) Annual reports submitted by the Office of Internal Oversight Services to the General Assembly contain the titles and brief summaries of all reports of the Office issued during the year; (b) Semi-annual reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services contain the titles and brief summaries of all other reports of the Office issued in the reporting period; (c) Original versions of the reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services not submitted to the General Assembly are, upon request, made available to any Member State; Also decides that when access to a report would be inappropriate for 2. reasons of confidentiality or the risk of violating the due process rights of individuals involved in Office of Internal Oversight Services investigations, the report may be modified, or withheld in extraordinary circumstances, at the discretion of the Under-Secretary-General for Internal Oversight Services, who will provide reasons for this to the requesting party; Further decides that reports of the Office of Internal Oversight Services 3. shall be submitted directly to the General Assembly as submitted by the Office and that the comments of the Secretary-General may be submitted in a separate report; Affirms its primary role in the consideration of and action taken on the 4. reports submitted to it; 5. Notes that no mechanism has been established for the follow-up to Office of Internal Oversight Services recommendations, including those considered by the General Assembly; 04-49258