Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations : cross-cutting issues : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly

Requests the Secretary-General, when submitting future budget proposals and performance reports, to include information on the most significant management decisions relating to the mission's budget and its implementation, including those related to operational costs and to integrate operational, logistical and financial aspects fully in the planning phase of peacekeeping operations by linking results-based budgeting to the mandate implementation plans of peacekeeping operations; decides to continue to suspend the application of the 4-year maximum limit for appointments of limited duration until 31 Dec. 2007; authorizes the Secretary-General, to reappoint, under the 100 series of the Staff Rules, those mission staff whose service under 300 series contracts has reached the 4-year limit by 31 Dec. 2007; request the Secretary-General to conduct a comprehensive review of the administrative and payment arrangements and procedures for the payment of compensation in cases of death and disability sustained by members of peacekeeping contingents and formed police units, civilian police officers and military; decides to authorize the payment, as necessary, of mission subsistence allowance to staff officers during in-mission official travel in cases where accommodation and/or food cannot be provided by the mission; requests the Secretary-General to include information on progress made towards global management of spare parts in his next overview report; requests the Secretary-General to provide, in the context of the budget submissions of complex integrated peacekeeping missions, a clear description of the role and responsibility of missions vis-à-vis integrated mission partners as well as the strategies of the missions for enhancing coordination and collaboration with UN country teams in order to achieve better results under relevant components.

Adopted without vote, 104th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 61st sess., Suppl. no. 49.