A/RES/63/259 United Nations Distr.: General 20 March 2009 General Assembly Sixty-third session Agenda item 118 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 24 December 2008 [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/63/648)] 63/259. Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials: members of the International Court of Justice and judges and ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda The General Assembly, Recalling section VIII of its resolution 53/214 of 18 December 1998, its resolutions 55/249 of 12 April 2001, 56/285 of 27 June 2002 and 57/289 of 20 December 2002, section III of its resolution 59/282 of 13 April 2005, paragraph 11 of its resolution 61/262 of 4 April 2007 and its decision 62/547 of 3 April 2008, Recalling also Article 32 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, as well as relevant resolutions of the General Assembly that govern the conditions of service and compensation for the members of the International Court of Justice and the judges of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General 1 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2 0F 1F I 1. Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;1 2. Reaffirms the principle that the conditions of service and compensation for non-Secretariat United Nations officials shall be separate and distinct from those for officials of the Secretariat; _______________ 1 2 08-48633 A/62/538/Add.2. A/63/570.