Death and Disability Benefits

A/RES/50/223No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 138aFinancing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations, published in 1996.

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3 versions · 1996–2003

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/57/316

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1996A/RES/50/223Death and disability benefits

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7 topics

Casualty Insurance Claims Compensation Death Grant Disability Benefits Reimbursement Troop-Contributing States

What does this mandate say?

7 operative paragraphs

Reiterates the decision, contained in section III, paragraph 1, of its resolution 49/233 A of 23 December 1994, that underlying any system of compensation for death and disability should be the need for:

Equal treatment of Member States;

Compensation to the beneficiary that is not lower than reimbursement by the United Nations;

Simplification of administrative arrangements to the extent possible;

Speedy settlement of claims for death and disability;

Requests the Secretary-General to examine also the possibility of an insurance scheme to cover all troops, on the basis of a request for proposals from the global insurance market;

Also requests the Secretary-General to present the results of the above-mentioned action and to respond to issues raised in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions 2/ by 15 July 1996 for the consideration of the General Assembly, through the Committee.

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