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7.
Requests the Board of Auditors to follow up and report at the
earliest opportunity on shortcomings in the internal audit coverage of the
organizations which it identified in its earlier report, 9/ with a view to
determining whether its recommendations have been implemented and the
situation rectified, following the establishment of the Office of Internal
Oversight Services;
8.
Recalls that, in its resolution 49/216 C of 23 December 1994, it
requested the Secretary-General to submit a report, through the Advisory
Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, containing proposals for
the improvement of the procurement activities of the Secretariat, and urges
the Advisory Committee to submit its report to the General Assembly as soon as
possible to enable it to consider these reports and decide on further
necessary action before the end of its fiftieth session;
9.
Requests the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees and all other entities for which the main source of income is
voluntary contributions and which account for them on an accrual basis to
provide annually, or upon request, more precise and transparent information on
the cash situation of these entities in their reports to the General Assembly
at its fifty-first and subsequent sessions;
10.
Requests the Secretary-General to consider measures to ensure
appropriate audit coverage of jointly financed administrative activities, to
consider the most appropriate way to present to the General Assembly the
financial, administrative and management information related to these
activities, and to report thereon to the Assembly during its resumed fiftieth
session.
100th plenary meeting
23 December 1995
B
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 48/216 A of 23 December 1993, especially
paragraph 6 thereof, as well as paragraph 2 of its resolution 48/216 C of 23
December 1993,
Reaffirming that the rectification of deficiencies and irregularities
identified by the Board of Auditors will enhance the effective exercise of the
functions of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
in providing international protection for refugees and will strengthen as well
its crucial role in seeking solutions to refugee problems,
1.
Expresses serious concern about the findings in the report of the
Board of Auditors on the voluntary funds administered by the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees, 2/ especially those concerning management
issues, such as the continuing problems of the lack of adequate managerial
control over the programmes carried out by implementing partners;
2.
Expresses particular concern about the persistent nature of
various problems and the non-implementation of the previous recommendations of
the Board of Auditors;
9/
Ibid., Forty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 5 and corrigendum
(A/47/5 and Corr.1), vol. I, paras. 288-310.
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