United Nations A/RES/59/273 General Assembly Distr.: General 7 March 2005 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 121 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 23 December 2004 [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/59/603)] 59/273. Financing of 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 The General Assembly, Having considered the reports of the Secretary-General, namely the first performance report for the biennium 2004–2005 on 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 1 and the report on biennial budgeting at the Tribunals, 2 Having also considered the report of the Board of Auditors and the recommendations contained therein, 3 Having further considered the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 4 Recalling its resolution 49/251 of 20 July 1995 on the financing of the Tribunal and its subsequent resolutions thereon, the latest of which were resolutions 58/252 and 58/253 of 23 December 2003, Takes note of the first performance report of the Secretary-General for the 1. biennium 2004–2005 on 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 _______________ 1 A/59/549. A/59/139. 3 Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-ninth Session, Supplement No. 5K (A/59/5/Add.11). 4 See A/59/561. 2 04-49264