Support Account for Peace-Keeping Operations

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 138aFinancing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations, published in 1994.

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11 topics

Accounts Administration Financing Job Classification Peacekeeping Operations Recommendations Reimbursement Secondment Staffing Standards Temporary Employment

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13 operative paragraphs

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Endorses the observations and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2/ subject to the provisions of the present resolution;

Authorizes the continued funding of the existing posts from the support account for peace-keeping operations based on its resolution 48/226 A;

Agrees to continue, on a temporary and exceptional basis, funding of the decision contained in its resolution 48/226 B until its consideration of the report requested in paragraph 10 below;

Authorizes, on an exceptional basis, in order to allow for consideration at its forty-ninth session of the report referred to in paragraph 10 below, the sum of up to 1 million United States dollars for general temporary assistance for the period from 1 July to 31 December 1994, to be devoted to meeting essential workload requirements, particularly those relating to the administrative and logistical functions of the Department of Peace-keeping Operations, to continued funding of the position of the Special Adviser to the Secretary-General and to funding of the posts requested in paragraph 33 of the report of the Secretary-General; 1/

Also authorizes the resources for general temporary assistance (167,700 dollars), overtime (80,000 dollars), travel on official business (140,000 dollars) and specialized equipment for the Situation Centre (592,000 dollars) as recommended in paragraph 59 of the report of the Advisory Committee, 2/ and the non-post resources for training (480,000 dollars) requested in annex IV to the report of the Secretary-General;

Reaffirms that the posts funded from the support account to support and backstop peace-keeping operations must be, unless otherwise decided by the General Assembly, temporary posts, and requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Assembly at its forty-ninth session, in the context of the report referred to in paragraph 10 below, proposals regarding the status of posts financed from the support account;

Takes note of the request of the Advisory Committee that the Secretary-General submit a report on the various aspects related to the secondment to the Department of Peace-keeping Operations, at no cost to the United Nations, of military and civilian personnel by a number of Member States, and requests that the report address the question of providing reimbursement of expenses to those personnel;

Decides that the current 8.5 per cent charge against civilian staff costs included in peace-keeping budgets shall be maintained for the time being and that amounts contributed by individual peace-keeping budgets shall be adjusted to reflect actual levels of expenditure on civilian staff expenses;

Requests the Secretary-General, in consultation with Member States and the Advisory Committee, to develop a more transparent document for presenting all resource allocations from the support account, along with information concerning related staff and non-staff resources financed from the regular budget;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit a report, as soon as possible, to the General Assembly at its forty-ninth session pursuant to the recommendation contained in paragraph 21 of the report of the Advisory Committee;

Also requests the Secretary-General to use the funds in the support account for only those posts approved by the General Assembly;

Further requests the Secretary-General to apply approved classification procedures and standards to all posts funded from the support account;

Requests the Secretary-General, in preparing future funding proposals for the support account, to review the continued need for all previously approved resources.

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