A/RES/61/240. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2006

• Resolution Number: A/RES/61/240
• Year: 2006
• Session: 61st
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/61/240

General Assembly Distr.: General

13 March 2007

Sixty-first session

Agenda item 126

06-50877

Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2006

[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/61/664)]

61/240. United Nations pension system

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its resolutions 55/224 of 23 December 2000, 57/286 of 20 December

2002 and 59/269 of 23 December 2004 and section III of its resolution 60/248 of

23 December 2005,

Having considered

the report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board

on its fifty-third session to the General Assembly and to the member organizations

of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund,

1

the report of the Secretary-General

on the investments of the Fund

2

and the related report of the Advisory Committee

on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,

3

I

Actuarial matters

Recalling

its resolutions 57/286, section I, and 59/269, section I,

Having considered

the results of the valuation of the United Nations Joint Staff

Pension Fund, which revealed a fifth consecutive actuarial surplus as at 31 December

2005, and the observations thereon by the consulting actuary of the Fund, the

Committee of Actuaries and the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board,

1.

Takes note

of the results of the actuarial valuation of the United Nations

Joint Staff Pension Fund, which went from an actuarial surplus of 0.36 per cent of

pensionable remuneration as at 31 December 1997 to an actuarial surplus of

4.25 per cent of pensionable remuneration as at 31 December 1999, to an actuarial

surplus of 2.92 per cent of pensionable remuneration as at 31 December 2001, to an

actuarial surplus of 1.14 per cent of pensionable remuneration as at 31 December

2003 and to an actuarial surplus of 1.29 per cent of pensionable remuneration as at

31 December 2005 and, in particular, of the opinions provided by the consulting

actuary and the Committee of Actuaries, as reproduced in annexes VII and VIII,

respectively, to the report of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board;

1

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1 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-first Session, Supplement No. 9 (A/61/9).

2 A/C.5/61/2.

3 A/61/545.