Support Account for Peacekeeping Operations

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1997.

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Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/RES/80/240 B	Support account for peacekeeping operations	—	–
2025	A/RES/80/240	Support account for peacekeeping operations	107	–
2025	A/RES/79/298	Support account for peacekeeping operations	1,447	–
2024	A/RES/78/293	Support account for peacekeeping operations	1,354	–
2023	A/RES/77/304	Support account for peacekeeping operations	1,302	–

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Claims Financing Peacekeeping Operations Staffing Support Accounts

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Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the support account for peacekeeping operations;1

Also takes note of the observations and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;2

Regrets the delayed submission by the Secretary-General of his report on the support account, and decides that his next report on the support account, for the period from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999, should be submitted no later than 31 March 1998;

Also regrets the non-compliance of the Secretary-General with the request in paragraph 8 of its resolution 50/221 B to submit a comprehensive proposal on the total requirement for human resources from all sources of funding for the backstopping of peacekeeping operations;

Emphasizes that it is necessary to have fully substantiated and comprehensive proposals for the total requirements for human and material resources from all sources of funding for the backstopping of peacekeeping operations, including from the regular budget, trust funds and voluntary contributions, both in cash and in kind, for the period of the support account proposal;

Reiterates its requests to the Secretary-General in paragraphs 7, 8 and 9 of its resolution 50/221 B, in preparing his annual proposals for the support account, and taking into consideration the temporary nature of the current level of resources, to review and substantiate comprehensively the entire post and non-post requirements for the support account; in preparing his report on the support account for the period from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999, to submit a comprehensive proposal on the total requirement for human resources from all sources of funding for the backstopping of peacekeeping operations, including posts financed from the regular budget and trust funds, officers on loan from Member States and other voluntary contributions during the period, to enable the General Assembly to decide on the level of human resources required; and to submit proposals that reflect as closely as possible the overall evolution of peacekeeping budgets and any additional relevant observations and recommendations regarding the lessons learned from the previous year of operation of the support account;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit an in-depth evaluation and subsequent budgetary proposals that reflect as closely as possible the overall evolution of peacekeeping trends, including any relevant restructuring of the various divisions and units involved in backstopping activities, taking into account the lessons learned from previous years' experience of operating the support account and the workload relating to closed and completed missions;

Also requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its fifty-second session the evaluation portion of the above-mentioned report;

Regrets the lack of a performance report on the operation of the support account in the context of the annual consideration by the General Assembly of the proposals of the Secretary-General for the account, as requested in paragraph 6 of its resolution 50/221 B;

Requests the Secretary-General, in his report on the support account for the period from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999, to submit a performance report, including information on redeployments, if any, between units, covering the period from 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997 and the period from 1 July to 31 December 1997;

Affirms the need for adequate funding for the backstopping of peacekeeping operations;

Decides to maintain for the period from 1 July 1997 to 30 June 1998 the funding mechanism for the support account provisionally approved in paragraph 3 of its resolution 50/221 B;

Approves, for the period from 1 July 1997 to 30 June 1998, the proposals of the Secretary-General with regard to post and non-post resource requirements as contained in his report,1 as amended by the Advisory Committee in paragraphs 19, 21, 22, 24, 26, 28, 29, 31, 33 and 37 of its report,2 subject to the provisions of the present resolution;

Also approves an appropriation in the amount of 158,500 United States dollars under general temporary assistance for the sole purpose of processing the backlog of claims referred to in paragraph 16 below;

Endorses the recommendation of the Advisory Committee to create one P-4 post and one General Service post in the Claims and Information Management Section of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations of the Secretariat,⁵ and requests the Secretary-General to utilize the P-2 post proposed for redeployment to the Personnel Management and Support Service⁶ for processing claims in the Claims and Information Management Section;

⁵See A/51/906 and Corr.1, para. 22.

⁶See A/51/890, annex I.A, para. 35.

Notes from the information provided by the Secretariat that the current backlog of death and disability claims is five hundred and sixty-four;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly quarterly written reports on the progress made in clearing the backlog;

Takes note of the usefulness of the lessons learned capacity, and requests the Secretary-General to submit, no later than 31 August 1997, for consideration during the third part of its resumed fifty-first session, proposals on resources and structure to strengthen the functions and to ensure the sharing and application of experience gained in peacekeeping operations;

Approves an appropriation of 1 million dollars for the rental of premises;

Authorizes the Secretary-General to enter into additional commitments not exceeding 808,500 dollars for the rental of premises;

Requests the Secretary-General to include in the performance report information on the use of resources provided for the rental of premises since 1992;

Decides that officers in the Office of Operations of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations whose workload has been reduced owing to the ending of some peacekeeping operations should be detailed to assist in eliminating the backlog;

Reaffirms the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly in which it requested the Secretary-General to fill the vacant support account posts as soon as possible, in a manner consistent with those resolutions and the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations;

Decides that posts funded from the support account shall be filled and managed in compliance with the Charter of the United Nations, the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly;

Calls upon the Secretary-General to stop immediately the practice of giving personnel on short-term appointments consultant contracts for a short period and then rehiring them on short-term appointments in violation of the spirit of open and transparent recruiting practices;

Requests the Secretary-General to assign the functions referred to in paragraphs 16, 17 and 22 of the report of the Advisory Committee2 to personnel occupying approved posts and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-second session, no later than 31 March 1998.

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