United Nations A/RES/58/295 General Assembly Distr.: General 21 July 2004 Fifty-eighth session Agenda items 121, 131, 134, 137, 138, 140, 141, 142, 145 (a) and (b), 146 and 147 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 18 June 2004 [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/58/820)] 58/295. Strengthening the security and safety of United Nations operations, staff and premises The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 56/255 of 24 December 2001, 56/286 of 27 June 2002, 57/305 of 15 April 2003, 58/270 of 23 December 2003 and all relevant resolutions regarding the security and safety of United Nations operations, staff and premises, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on strengthening the security and safety of United Nations operations, staff and premises, 1 Having also considered the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2 1. Endorses the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions contained in its report,2 subject to the provisions of the present resolution; 2. Stresses the need, for the purposes of objective analyses, for a dedicated functional staff at Headquarters to review the recommendations on country risk assessments made by security officers in the field with the assistance of and input from national authorities of the host country; Approves the establishment of 58 new field security posts for the Office 3. of the United Nations Security Coordinator, and decides, without prejudice to such decisions as may be arrived at regarding cost-sharing arrangements, to appropriate 2,583,000 United States dollars, being the portion of costs normally attributable to the United Nations using current formulas, and to revert to the required residual funding of 8,162,100 dollars at the fifty-ninth session when determining costsharing arrangements; _______________ 1 2 03 51222 A/58/756. A/58/758.