At its 78th plenary meeting, on 20 December 2002, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the Fifth Committee,130 having considered the statement submitted by the Secretary-General176 on the programme budget implications of draft resolution A/C.3/57/L.70 on the Khmer Rouge trials and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,177 endorsed the recommendations of the Advisory Committee, and noted that, in the event of the adoption of the draft resolution, the requirements would be met from within existing resources under section 8, Legal affairs, of the programme budget for the biennium 2002–2003.171
