Strengthening of the Office of the United Nations Disaster Relief Co-ordinator : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.

Endorses Economic and Social Council resolution 1990/63 of 26 July 1990 concerning the Office of the UN Disaster Relief Coordinator; requests the Secretary-General, in this connection, taking into account, inter alia, the experience gained by the Office of the UN Disaster Relief Coordinator in the situation between Iraq and Kuwait, to make proposals to the Economic and Social Council at its 2nd regular session of 1991 for the strengthening of the capacity of the Office to fulfil its mandate; also requests the Secretary-General to consider the need to adapt further, in the case of the Office of the UN Disaster Relief Coordinator, existing UN procedures concerning the procurement, transport and storage of emergency supplies; recognizes the importance for the Office of the UN Disaster Relief Coordinator to be in a position immediately to provide small emergency grants to countries stricken by disasters to meet their most immediate needs; requests the Economic and Social Council to review the situation at its 2nd regular session of 1991 and authorizes the Office of the UN Disaster Relief Coordinator, pending that review, to continue to make grants available to disaster-stricken countries, not to exceed $50,000 per disaster, out of the existing reserve of $360,000 allocated for that purpose in the programme budget of the Office for the biennium 1990-1991; calls upon Governments and private and voluntary organizations to make generous cash contributions to the existing contingency relief fund of the Office of the UN Disaster Relief Coordinator.

Adopted without vote, 71st meeting

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Adopted at the 71st plenary meeting, 21 Dec. 1990.
In: Resolutions and decisions adopted by the General Assembly during its 45th session, Volume 1, 18 September-21 December 1990. - A/45/49. - 1991. - p. 156. - (GAOR, 45th sess., Suppl. no. 49).