Financing of the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 148Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations, published in 2015.

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Brindisi (Italy)Financial Resources Logistics Peacekeeping Operations

What does this mandate say?

15 operative paragraphs

Notes with appreciation the facilities provided by the Government of Italy to the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy, and by the Government of Spain to the secondary active telecommunications facility in Valencia, Spain;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,Error: Reference source not found subject to the provisions of the present resolution, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure their full implementation;

Underlines the fact that the provision by the Global Service Centre of support to clients should be carried out within the terms of the relevant General Assembly mandates;

Takes note of paragraph 50 of the report of the Advisory Committee, recalls paragraph 5 of General Assembly resolution 67/288 of 28 June 2013, and reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to present a comprehensive study regarding the deployment of the Global Service Centre in two locations;

Decides to defer consideration of the relocation of the post of Chief of the Service for Geospatial, Information and Telecommunications Technologies until the second part of the resumed seventieth session of the General Assembly;

Recalls paragraph 13 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and requests the Secretary-General to establish an effective and reliable mechanism for monitoring complaints and measuring customer satisfaction regarding the services provided by the United Nations Logistics Base to field missions, including from troop-contributing countries and police-contributing countries, and to report thereon at the seventieth session of the General Assembly and thereafter include in the results-based budgeting frameworks for the Logistics Base relevant indicators of achievement for assessing performance and measuring progress in the provision of customer services;

Also recalls paragraph 46 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the centralization effort under way regarding geospatial information systems results in a reduction in the resources dedicated to such systems in the field missions and to report thereon in his next report on the United Nations Logistics Base;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the full implementation of the relevant provisions of its resolutions 59/296 of 22 June 2005, 60/266 of 30 June 2006, 61/276 of 29 June 2007, 64/269 of 24 June 2010, 65/289 of 30 June 2011, 66/264 of 21 June 2012 and 69/307 of 25 June 2015, as well as other relevant resolutions;

Budget performance report for the period from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the budget performance of the United Nations Logistics Base for the period from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014;

Budget estimates for the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016

Approves the cost estimates for the United Nations Logistics Base amounting to 67,157,000 United States dollars for the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016;

Financing of the budget estimates

Decides that the requirements for the United Nations Logistics Base for the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016 shall be financed as follows:

The unencumbered balance and other income in the amount of 1,854,500 dollars in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2014, to be applied against the resources required for the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016;

The balance of 65,302,500 dollars, to be prorated among the budgets of the active peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016;

The estimated staff assessment income of 6,617,400 dollars, comprising the amount of 6,097,700 dollars for the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016 and the increase of 519,700 dollars in respect of the period from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014, to be set off against the balance referred to in subparagraph (b) above, to be prorated among the budgets of the individual active peacekeeping operations;

Also decides to consider at its seventieth session the question of the financing of the United Nations Logistics Base.

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