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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/51/232
25 June 1997
Fifty-first session
Agenda item 123 (a)
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/51/724/Add.1)]
51/232.
Financing of the United Nations
Disengagement Observer Force
The General Assembly,
Having considered the reports of the Secretary-General on the financing
of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force,1 and the related report of
the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,2 and taking
note of the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services,3
Bearing in mind Security Council resolution 350 (1974) of 31 May 1974,
by which the Council established the United Nations Disengagement Observer
Force, and the subsequent resolutions by which the Council extended the
mandate of the Force, the latest of which was resolution 1081 (1996) of
27 November 1996,
Recalling its resolution 3211 B (XXIX) of 29 November 1974 on the
financing of the United Nations Emergency Force and the United Nations
Disengagement Observer Force and its subsequent resolutions thereon, the
latest of which was resolution 50/20 B of 7 June 1996,
Reaffirming that the costs of the United Nations Disengagement Observer
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,
Recalling its previous decisions regarding the fact that, in order to
meet the expenditures caused by the Force, a different procedure is required
from the one applied to meet expenditures of the regular budget of the United
Nations,
1
A/51/405/Add.1 and 2.
2
See A/51/684/Add.1.
3
A/51/432, annex.
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