Financing of the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy

A/RES/70/288View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 148 Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations, published in 2016.

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?

5 subjects

Brindisi (Italy)Financial Resources Logistics Peacekeeping Operations Programme Budgeting

What’s in this document?

23 operative paragraphs

Notes with appreciation the facilities provided by the Government of Italy to the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy, and by the Government of Spain to the secondary active telecommunications facility in Valencia, Spain;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,2 subject to the provisions of the present resolution, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure their full implementation;

Requests the Secretary-General to ensure the full implementation of the relevant provisions of its resolutions 59/296 of 22 June 2005, 60/266 of 30 June 2006, 61/276 of 29 June 2007, 64/269 of 24 June 2010, 65/289 of 30 June 2011, 66/264 of 21 June 2012, 69/307 of 25 June 2015 and 70/286 of 17 June 2016, as well as other relevant resolutions;

Recalls paragraph 20 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and requests the Secretary-General to resubmit proposals for the official designation of the facility in Valencia;

Underlines the fact that the provision by the Global Service Centre of support to clients should be carried out within the terms of the relevant General Assembly mandates;

Recalls paragraphs 37 and 38 of the report of the Advisory Committee, requests the Secretary-General to entrust the Office of Internal Oversight Services of the Secretariat with the conduct of a review and evaluation covering the level, size and composition of strategic deployment stocks, rotation processes, governance and clearing-house policy and their value in view of historical utilization trends, as well as their contribution to faster mission start-up and expansion, and requests the Secretary-General to report thereon to the General Assembly at the second part of its resumed seventy-first session, with a view to the Assembly taking a decision on the write-off and replenishment of strategic deployment stocks;

Also recalls paragraph 37 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and requests the Secretary-General to entrust the Office of Internal Oversight Services with the conduct of an audit, including a review of procedures, policies and internal controls;

Notes the ongoing centralization effort regarding geospatial information systems and the reorganization of the Geospatial Information Systems Section;

Requests the Secretary-General to present, in the next report on the budget for the United Nations Logistics Base, comprehensive and updated information on the Service for Geospatial, Information and Telecommunications Technologies and its client missions, including resource requirements at the client missions, the status of outputs, the utilization of such outputs and the impact of the Service on mandate delivery;

Stresses that any decisions taken on the operational needs of the Service for Geospatial, Information and Telecommunications Technologies should be in full compliance with all relevant rules and regulations of the United Nations, and requests the Secretary-General to keep track of and record all relevant decisions taken in this regard, along with any expenditures incurred, and to report on the matter in the context of the relevant performance report;

Recalls paragraph 72 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and decides to approve the conversion of five general temporary assistance positions (1 P-5, 1 P-3, 3 P-2) to posts in the Geospatial Information Systems Section;

Also recalls paragraph 29 of the report of the Advisory Committee, expresses its concern at the continued lack of progress made towards improving the performance and enhancing the effectiveness of the Strategic Air Operations Centre, and requests the Secretary-General to ensure strict and full implementation of the standard operating procedures related to strategic and out-of-mission-area flights;

Further recalls paragraph 93 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and encourages the Secretary-General to continue to develop a scalability model for the United Nations Logistics Base, taking into account support requirements related to the provision of hosting services for information and communications technologies and enterprise data centre services to the Secretariat as a whole, as well as benefits derived from Umoja, and to report thereon in the context of his next report;

Recalls paragraphs 40 and 91 of the Advisory Committee, stresses that indicators of achievement should be measurable, objective and meaningful, and urges the Secretariat to review the indicators of achievement to ensure that they provide a meaningful assessment of the achievements of the United Nations Logistics Base;

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to provide in future budget submissions a breakdown of resource requirements and expenditures, including performance targets and actual achievements in service delivery for the United Nations Logistics Base and for the secondary active telecommunications facility in Valencia, and to include the corresponding information in performance reports;

Takes note of paragraph 73 of the report of the Advisory Committee, decides not to abolish four posts (2 P-4 and 2 P-3) in the Standing Police Capacity tenant unit, and decides to abolish five posts (1 P-4, 2 P-3 and 2 national General Service) in the Integrated Training Service tenant unit, effective 1 January 2017;

Budget performance report for the period from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the budget performance of the United Nations Logistics Base for the period from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015;³

³A/70/609.

Budget estimates for the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017

Approves the cost estimates for the United Nations Logistics Base amounting to 82,857,800 United States dollars for the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017;

Financing of the budget estimates

Decides that the requirements for the United Nations Logistics Base for the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017 shall be financed as follows:

The unencumbered balance and other income in the amount of 4,605,500 dollars in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2015, to be applied against the resources required for the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017;

The balance of 78,252,300 dollars, to be prorated among the budgets of the active peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017;

The estimated staff assessment income of 5,688,600 dollars, comprising the amount of 5,917,100 dollars for the period from 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017 and the decrease of 228,500 dollars in respect of the period from 1 July 2014 to 30 June 2015, to be offset against the balance referred to in subparagraph (b) above, to be prorated among the budgets of the individual active peacekeeping operations;

Also decides to consider at its seventy-first session the question of the financing of the United Nations Logistics Base.