GEN

Approves the increase of US$2,204,000 in total additional resources for the biennium 2008-2009; approves the amendment to article 24 (b) of the Regulations of the Fund which would allow participants who return to active contributory service after a period of disability to count such periods of disability as contributory service without requiring the participant to pay contributions for that period; approves the agreement of the Board to clarify that the scope of the revision in 2006 of article 24 did not cover only those participants who had received a withdrawal settlement, but also those who had elected a deferred retirement benefit as long as no periodic benefit payments of their deferred benefit had been made; decides that the Special Tribunal for Lebanon shall be admitted as a new member organization of the Fund, effective 1 Jan. 2009; approves the inclusion of contractual settlement provisions in the agreement with the Global Custodian of the Fund.

Adopted without vote, 74th plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 63rd sess., Suppl. no. 49.