A/RES/65/250. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2010

• Resolution Number: A/RES/65/250
• Year: 2010
• Session: 65th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/65/250*

General Assembly Distr.: General

24 February 2011

Sixty-fifth session

Agenda items 128 and 139

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 24 December 2010

[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/65/649)]

65/250. Report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services

on its activities

The General Assembly

,

I

Activities of the Office of Internal Oversight Services

Recalling

its resolutions 48/218 B of 29 July 1994, 54/244 of 23 December

1999, 59/272 of 23 December 2004, 60/259 of 8 May 2006, 63/265 of 24 December

2008, 63/287 of 30 June 2009, 64/232 of 22 December 2009 and 64/263 of

29 March 2010,

Having considered

the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on

its activities for the period from 1 July 2009 to 30 June 2010,

1

1.

Reaffirms

its primary role in the consideration of and action taken on

reports submitted to it;

2.

Also reaffirms

its oversight role and the role of the Fifth Committee in

administrative and budgetary matters;

3.

Further reaffirms

the independence and the separate and distinct roles of

the internal and external oversight mechanisms;

4.

Recalls

that the Office of Internal Oversight Services of the Secretariat

shall exercise operational independence under the authority of the Secretary-General

relating to the performance of its internal oversight functions, in accordance with

the relevant resolutions;

5.

Encourages

the Office of Internal Oversight Services to enhance its

analysis in future annual reports of general trends and strategic challenges regarding

internal oversight in the United Nations;

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* Reissued for technical reasons on 15 March 2011.

1 A/65/271 (Part I) and Corr.1 and Add.1 and Add.1/Corr.1.