United Nations A/RES/56/285 General Assembly Fifty-sixth session Agenda item 123 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/56/736/Add.2)] 56/285. Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials: members of the International Court of Justice, judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, judges of the International Tribunal for Rwanda and ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia The General Assembly, Recalling section VIII of its resolution 53/214 of 18 December 1998 on the conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials: members of the International Court of Justice, judges of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 and judges of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International 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, and its resolution 55/249 of 12 April 2001 on the conditions of service and compensation for the ad litem judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, Reiterating paragraph 6 of section III of its resolution 56/242 of 24 December 2001, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General 1 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2 Reaffirming the general principle that the terms and conditions of service for the judges of the International Tribunal for Rwanda shall be those of the judges of the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, 1. Endorses the observations and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions contained in its report2 with _______________ 1 A/C.5/56/14. A/56/7/Add.2. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-sixth Session, Supplement No. 7A. 2 01 49549 Distr.: General 12 July 2002