United Nations

A/62/604
Distr.: General 24 December 2007 Original: English

General Assembly

Sixty-second session Agenda item 126

Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations
Report of the Fifth Committee
Rapporteur: Mr. Steven Ssenabulya Nkayivu (Uganda)

I. Introduction
1. At its 3rd plenary meeting, on 21 September 2007, the General Assembly, on the recommendation of the General Committee, decided to include in the agenda of its sixty-second session the item entitled "Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations" and to allocate it to the Fifth Committee. 2. The Fifth Committee considered the item at its 26th meeting, on 21 December 2007. Statements and observations made in the course of the Committee's consideration of the item are reflected in the relevant summary records (A/C.5/62/SR.26).

II. Consideration of draft decision A/C.5/62/L.24
3. At its 26th meeting, on 21 December, the Committee had before it a draft decision entitled "Questions deferred for future consideration" (A/C.5/62/L.24), submitted by the Chairman of the Committee. 4. At the same meeting, the Committee adopted draft decision A/C.5/62/L.24 without a vote (see para. 5).

III. Recommendation of the Fifth Committee
5. The Fifth Committee recommends to the General Assembly the adoption of the following draft decision:

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Questions deferred for future consideration
A The General Assembly decides to defer until the resumed part of its sixtysecond session consideration of the following agenda items and related documents: Item 140 Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations Report of the Secretary-General on the updated financial position of closed peacekeeping missions as at 30 June 2005; 1 Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions; 2 Report of the Secretary-General on the updated financial position of closed peacekeeping missions as at 30 June 2006; 3 Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions; 4 Item 146 Financing of the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor Report of the Secretary-General on the final performance report of the United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor; 5 Report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions; 6 B The General Assembly decides to defer until its sixty-third session consideration of the following documents under agenda item 132: Item 132 Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations Report of the Committee on Contributions; 7 Report of the Secretary-General on multi-year payment plans; 8 Report of the Secretary-General on the unpaid assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia; 9 Letter dated 2 November 2006 from the Permanent Representative of Slovenia to the United Nations addressed to the Secretary-General; 10
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A/60/437. A/60/551. A/61/867. A/61/920. A/62/555. A/62/574. Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-second Session, Supplement No. 11 (A/62/11). A/62/70. A/60/140 and Corr.1. A/C.5/61/11.

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Letter dated 27 December 2001 from the Secretary-General to the President of the General Assembly; 11 Note by the Secretary-General on the outstanding assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia. 12

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A/56/767. A/58/189.

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