United Nations A/RES/59/296 General Assembly Distr.: General 15 August 2005 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 123 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 June 2005 [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/59/532/Add.1)] 59/296. Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations: cross-cutting issues The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 49/233 A of 23 December 1994, 49/233 B 31 March 1995, 51/218 E of 17 June 1997 and 57/290 B of 18 June 2003, Having considered the general report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the report of the Board of Auditors concerning the administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations, 1 I 1. Appreciates the efforts of all peacekeeping personnel in dealing with the current unprecedented surge in peacekeeping operations; 2. Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the general report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,1 subject to the provisions of the present resolution; 3. Requests the Secretary-General to submit an annual overview report on the financing of peacekeeping missions, reporting, inter alia, on trends in the size, composition and funding of the peacekeeping missions, relevant developments in peacekeeping operations, efforts to improve the management and functioning of peacekeeping operations and the management priorities for the coming year as well as actions taken to implement the provisions of the present resolution; Also requests the Secretary-General to provide relevant information in 4. the individual budget submissions of peacekeeping operations for the financial period 2006/07 on the efficiencies resulting from the implementation of the applicable provisions of the present resolution; _______________ 1 04-49489 A/59/736.