Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/60/608/Add.2)]
60/256.	Capital master plan


	The General Assembly,
	Recalling its resolutions 54/249 of 23 December 1999, 55/238 of 23 December 2000, 56/234 and 56/236 of 24 December 2001 and 56/286 of 27 June 2002, section II of its resolution 57/292 of 20 December 2002, its resolution 59/295 of 22 June 2005, section II of its resolution 60/248 of 23 December 2005 and its decision 58/566 of 8 April 2004,
	1.	Takes note of the third annual progress report of the Secretary-General on the implementation of the capital master plan and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;
	2.	Decides to appropriate an amount of 23.5 million United States dollars for financing the design and pre-construction phases of the capital master plan, including swing space requirements;
	3.	Also decides that the appropriation of 23.5 million dollars shall be financed in accordance with regulation 3.1 of the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations through assessment on Member States in 2006 on the basis of the regular budget scale of assessments in effect for the year;
	4.	Authorizes the Secretary-General to enter into commitments of up to 77 million dollars for the biennium 2006-2007 to provide for the construction, fit-out and related requirements of a conference swing space building on the North Lawn and for the leasing, design, pre-construction services, fit-out and related requirements of library and office swing space for the capital master plan;
	5.	Also authorizes the Secretary-General to enter into the lease commitments necessary for the implementation of the capital master plan;
	6.	Reaffirms paragraph 28 of its resolution 57/292, and calls upon the Secretary-General to explore the possibility of private donor funding for the capital master plan;
	7.	Recalls paragraph 12 of the report of the Advisory Committee,2 and requests the Secretary-General to present a more detailed business analysis on the possibility of constructing a new permanent building on the North Lawn by the second part of its resumed sixtieth session;
	8.	Decides to revert, as a matter of priority, to the consideration of the reports on the capital master plan during the second part of its resumed sixtieth session.

79th plenary meeting
8 May 2006
 A/60/550 and Corr.1 and 2 and Add.1.
 A/60/7/Add.12. For the final text, see Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixtieth Session, Supplement No. 7A.
 ST/SGB/2003/7.

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Sixtieth session
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