A/RES/61/114. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2006

• Resolution Number: A/RES/61/114
• Year: 2006
• Session: 61st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/61/114

General Assembly Distr.: General

15 January 2007

Sixty-first session

Agenda item 31

06-50127

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 14 December 2006

[on the report of the Special Political and Decolonization Committee

(Fourth Committee) (A/61/407)]

61/114. Operations of the United Nations Relief and Works

Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolutions 194 (III) of 11 December 1948, 212 (III) of

19 November 1948, 302 (IV) of 8 December 1949 and all subsequent related

resolutions, including its resolution 60/102 of 8 December 2005,

Recalling

also

the relevant Security Council resolutions,

Having considered

the report of the Commissioner-General of the United

Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East covering

the period from 1 January to 31 December 2005,

1

Taking note

of the letter dated 28 September 2006 from the Chairperson of the

Advisory Commission of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine

Refugees in the Near East addressed to the Commissioner-General,

2

Deeply concerned

about the critical financial situation of the Agency, as well

as about the rising expenditures of the Agency resulting from the deterioration of

the socio-economic and humanitarian conditions in the region and their significant

negative impact on the provision of necessary Agency services to the Palestine

refugees, including its emergency-related and development programmes,

Recalling

Articles 100, 104 and 105 of the Charter of the United Nations and

the Convention on the Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations,

3

Recalling also

the Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated

Personnel,

4

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1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 13 (A/61/13).

2 Ibid., p. viii.

3 Resolution 22 A (I).

4 United Nations, Treaty Series, vol. 2051, No. 35457.