United Nations General Assembly A/RES/59/58 Distr.: General 16 February 2005 Fifty-ninth session Agenda item 108 Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 3 December 2004 [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/59/448/Add.1)] 59/58. Estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council: United Nations advance team in the Sudan The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council 1 and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2 1. Endorses the observations and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;2 2. Decides to approve the budget for the United Nations advance team in the Sudan for the period from 11 September to 10 December 2004 in the amount of 21,789,400 United States dollars gross (21,008,100 dollars net); Notes that part of the requirements would be met from the unspent 3. balance of 998,600 dollars of the amount already provided for the mission; 4. Decides to approve a charge, against the provision for special political missions appropriated under section 3, Political affairs, of the programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005, in the amount of 3,002,600 dollars, corresponding to the unassigned balance in that provision; Also decides to appropriate, under the procedure provided for in 5. paragraph 11 of annex I to General Assembly resolution 41/213 of 19 December 1986, the amount of 17,006,900 dollars under section 3, Political affairs, and 781,300 dollars under section 34, Staff assessment, of the programme budget for the biennium 2004-2005, the amount of 781,300 dollars to be offset by a corresponding _______________ 1 2 04-47974 A/59/534. A/59/569.