Death and Disability Benefits

A/RES/50/223View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 138a Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations, published in 1996.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1996–2003

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/57/316

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2003	A/RES/57/316	Death and disability benefits	73	17%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/177	Death and disability benefits	313	22%Compare
1996	A/RES/50/223	Death and disability benefits	205	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Casualty Insurance Claims Compensation Death Grant Disability Benefits Reimbursement Troop-Contributing States

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Reiterates the decision, contained in section III, paragraph 1, of its resolution 49/233 A of 23 December 1994, that underlying any system of compensation for death and disability should be the need for:

Equal treatment of Member States;

Compensation to the beneficiary that is not lower than reimbursement by the United Nations;

Simplification of administrative arrangements to the extent possible;

Speedy settlement of claims for death and disability;

Requests the Secretary-General to examine also the possibility of an insurance scheme to cover all troops, on the basis of a request for proposals from the global insurance market;

Also requests the Secretary-General to present the results of the above-mentioned action and to respond to issues raised in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions 2/ by 15 July 1996 for the consideration of the General Assembly, through the Committee.

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