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4. Also endorses the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary
Questions;4
5. Decides that the temporal and financial limitations set out in paragraphs 8 to 11 below shall
apply to third-party claims against the Organization for personal injury, illness or death, and for property
loss or damage (including non-consensual use of premises) resulting from or attributable to the activities
of members of peacekeeping operations in the performance of their official duties, as described in
paragraph 13 of the report of the Secretary-General;1
6. Endorses the view of the Secretary-General that liability is not engaged in relation to third-party
claims resulting from or attributable to the activities of members of peacekeeping operations arising from
"operational necessity", as described in paragraph 14 of the first report of the Secretary-General on
third-party liability;5
7. Also endorses the views of the Secretary-General, reflected in paragraph 14 of his report,1 with
regard to third-party claims resulting from gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the personnel provided
by troop-contributing States for peacekeeping operations, and requests him to report on their
implementation in the relevant performance reports;
8. Decides that, where the liability of the Organization is engaged in relation to third-party claims
against the Organization resulting from peacekeeping operations, the Organization will not pay
compensation in regard to such claims submitted after six months from the time the damage, injury or loss
was sustained, or from the time it was discovered by the claimant, and in any event after one year from
the termination of the mandate of the peacekeeping operation, provided that in exceptional circumstances,
such as described in paragraph 20 of the report of the Secretary-General,1 the Secretary-General may
accept for consideration a claim made at a later date;
9. Decides also, in respect of third-party claims against the Organization for personal injury, illness
or death resulting from peacekeeping operations, that:
(a) Compensable types of injury or loss shall be limited to economic loss, such as medical and
rehabilitation expenses, loss of earnings, loss of financial support, transportation expenses associated with
the injury, illness or medical care, legal and burial expenses;
(b) No compensation shall be payable by the United Nations for non-economic loss, such as pain
and suffering or moral anguish, as well as punitive or moral damages;
(c) No compensation shall be payable by the United Nations for homemaker services and other such
damages that, in the sole opinion of the Secretary-General, are impossible to verify or are not directly
related to the injury or loss itself;
(d) The amount of compensation payable for injury, illness or death of any individual, including
for the types of loss and expenses described in subparagraph (a) above, shall not exceed a maximum of
4
A/52/410, para. 5.
5
A/51/389.
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