Requests the Secretary-General to intensify his efforts to achieve economies of scale within and between field missions without undermining their operational requirements and the implementation of their respective mandates and to report thereon in the context of the overview report; decides to revert to the establishment of minimum welfare and recreation standards at the second part of its resumed 65th session; also decides to increase the level of compensation for death for all categories of uniformed personnel to US$70,000; reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to make the fullest possible use of facilities and equipment at the UN Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy, in order to minimize the costs of procurement for field missions; requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary measures to prevent unsubstantiated allegations of misconduct from damaging the credibility of any UN peacekeeping operation; strongly urges Member States to take all appropriate measures to ensure that crimes by UN officials and experts on mission do not go unpunished and that the perpetrators of such crimes are brought to justice; decides that, if a decision of the Security Council relating to the start-up phase or expansion phase of peacekeeping operations results in the need for expenditure, the Secretary-General is authorized to enter into commitments up to $100 million from the available balance of the Peacekeeping Reserve Fund and to enter into commitments up to $50 million of the available balance of the stores available from the Organization's strategic deployment stocks; decides that the regional service centre at Entebbe will be a family duty station, effective 1 July 2011.

Adopted without vote, 101st plenary meeting

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Issued in GAOR, 64th sess., Suppl. no. 49.