Financing of the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy

A/RES/58/297View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 134 Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations, published in 2004.

What other versions does this mandate have?

27 versions · 1998–2026

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/274

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2026	A/RES/80/274	Financing of the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy	641	71%Compare
2025	A/RES/79/300	Financing of the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy	586	92%Compare
2024	A/RES/78/295	Financing of the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy	587	93%Compare
2023	A/RES/77/305	Financing of the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy	586	93%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/277	Financing of the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy	586	89%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

12 subjects

Costs Credit Equipment and Supplies Financial Management Inventories Logistics Peacekeeping Operations Purchasing Staff Assessment Standards Strategic Materials Support Services

What’s in this document?

16 operative paragraphs

Notes with appreciation the facilities provided by the Government of Italy to the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi;

Endorses the observations and recommendations contained in the reports of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,⁷ and requests the Secretary-General to ensure their full implementation;

⁷Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-eighth Session, Supplement No. 7 and corrigendum (A/58/7 and Corr.1), paras. II.36 and II.37 and A/58/759/Add.9.

Reiterates the need to implement, as a matter of priority, an effective inventory management standard, especially in respect of peacekeeping operations involving high inventory value;

Also reiterates paragraph 2 of its resolution 56/292, and requests the Secretary-General to report thereon expeditiously;

Field assets control system

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on progress in the implementation of the field assets control system;3

Strategic deployment stocks

Also takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the status of the implementation of the strategic deployment stocks;2

Requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session on the functioning of existing mechanisms of the strategic deployment stocks, in the light of lessons learned from experiences with mission start-ups;

Global procurement hub

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the analysis of establishing a global procurement hub for all peacekeeping missions in Brindisi;4

Endorses the observations and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,⁸ and requests the Secretary-General to ensure their full implementation;

⁸A/58/796.

Financial performance report for the period from 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the financial performance of the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi for the period from 1 July 2002 to 30 June 2003;⁹

⁹A/58/702.

Budget estimates for the period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005

Approves the cost estimates for the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi amounting to 28,422,000 United States dollars for the period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005;

Financing of the budget estimates

Decides to apply the balance of other income and adjustments in the total amount of 3,173,700 dollars in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2003 to the resources required for the period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005;

Also decides that the increase of 9,900 dollars in the estimated staff assessment income in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2003 shall be added to the credits from the amount referred to in paragraph 12 above;

Further decides to prorate the balance of 25,248,300 dollars among the individual active peacekeeping operation budgets to meet the financing requirements of the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi for the period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005;

Decides to set off against the balance referred to in paragraph 14 above the estimated staff assessment income of 1,412,500 dollars for the period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005, representing the difference between the estimated staff assessment income of 1,560,600 dollars for the period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005 and the adjustment in the staff assessment income of 148,100 dollars related to the period ended 30 June 2001, to be prorated among the individual active peacekeeping operation budgets;

Also decides to consider at its fifty-ninth session the question of the financing of the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi.