A/RES/63/252 United Nations Distr.: General 20 March 2009 General Assembly Sixty-third session Agenda item 126 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 24 December 2008 [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/63/641)] 63/252. United Nations pension system The General Assembly, Recalling its resolutions 55/224 of 23 December 2000, 57/286 of 20 December 2002, 59/269 of 23 December 2004, 61/240 of 22 December 2006 and 62/241 of 22 December 2007, Having considered the report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board for 2008 to the General Assembly and to the member organizations of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund, 1 including the financial statements of the Fund for the biennium ended 31 December 2007, the audit opinion and report of the Board of Auditors thereon, the information provided on the internal audits of the Fund and the observations of the Pension Board, the reports of the Secretary-General on the investments of the Fund and steps and efforts undertaken to increase diversification 2 and on the administrative and financial implications arising from the report of the Pension Board 3 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 4 0F 1F 2F 3F 1. Takes note of the report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board,1 and in particular the action taken by the Board as set out in chapter II.B of the report; 2. Notes that the report of the Board of Auditors on the accounts of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund for the biennium ended 31 December 2007 indicated that the financial statements presented fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Fund and that the transactions tested as part of the audit were, in all significant respects, in accordance with the Regulations and Rules of the Fund and legislative authority; 5 4F _______________ 1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 9 (A/63/9). A/C.5/63/2. 3 A/63/363. 4 A/63/556. 5 See Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-third Session, Supplement No. 9 (A/63/9), annex VIII. 2 08-48591