Requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary measures in order to improve the distribution of food rations in the Mission; also requests the Secretary-General to consider the posts required for the election process; authorizes the Secretary-General to employ 17 additional staff in the Office of Public Information for the purposes of the election process; requests the Secretary-General to present in his next budget proposal workload indicators for the international staff in the Office of Public Information; decides to appropriate to the Special Account for the UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo the amount of US$746,072,500 for the period 1 July 2004-30 June 2005; decides also to apportion among Member States the amount of $746,072,500 at a monthly rate of $62,172,708; decides to apportion among Member States the amount of $59,038,300 already appropriated for the maintenance of the Mission for the period 1 July 2003-30 June 2004; decides to include in the provisional agenda of its 59th session the item entitled "Financing of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo".

Adopted without vote, 91st plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 58th sess., Suppl. no. 49.