Death and Disability Benefits

A/RES/52/177View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 142a Financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations, published in 1998.

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?

6 subjects

Administrative Procedure Claims Death Grant Disability Benefits Payments Arrangements Peacekeeping Operations

What’s in this document?

7 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on death and disability benefits;1

Takes note also of the observations and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;2

Authorizes the Secretary-General to implement without delay the administrative and payment arrangements and procedures contained in section II of his report for the payment of awards in cases of death and disability sustained by troops for incidents occurring after 30 June 1997;

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General, in accordance with its resolution 51/218 E, to present, as soon as possible and not later than April 1998, proposals for administrative resource reductions resulting from this new simplified system;

Also reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to present, in his next report, information on the cost of the new self-insurance system;

Requests the Secretary-General to settle the death and disability claims as soon as possible but not later than three months from the date of submission of a claim;

Also requests the Secretary-General to continue, in the new system, to take into account, when considering all mission-related death and disability claims, that such injury or death should be compensable, unless such injury or death was caused by the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the injured or deceased member of the contingent, and further requests the Secretary-General to include this notion in the aide-mémoire for troop-contributing countries.

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