A/RES/67/256. Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, 2013

• Resolution Number: A/RES/67/256
• Year: 2013
• Session: 67th
• Issuer: General Assembly of the United Nation

United Nations A/RES/67/256

General Assembly Distr.: General

6 June 2013

Sixty-seventh session

Agenda item 136

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Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 12 April 2013

[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/67/817)]

67/256. Joint Inspection Unit

The General Assembly

,

Recalling

its previous resolutions on the Joint Inspection Unit, in particular

resolutions 31/192 of 22 December 1976, 50/233 of 7 June 1996, 54/16 of

29 October 1999, 57/284 A and B of 20 December 2002, 58/286 of 8 April 2004,

59/267 of 23 December 2004, 60/258 of 8 May 2006, 61/238 of 22 December 2006,

61/260 of 4 April 2007, 62/226 of 22 December 2007, 62/246 of 3 April 2008,

63/272 of 7 April 2009, 64/262 of 29 March 2010, 65/270 of 4 April 2011 and

66/259 of 9 April 2012,

Reaffirming

the statute of the Unit

1

and the unique role of the Unit as the only

external and independent system-wide inspection, evaluation and investigation

body,

Having considered

the report of the Unit for 2012 and programme of work for

2013

2

and the note by the Secretary-General on the report of the Unit for 2012,

3

1.

Takes note

with appreciation

of the report of the Joint Inspection Unit for

2012 and programme of work for 2013;

2

2.

Takes note

of the note by the Secretary-General on the report of the Unit

for 2012;

3

3.

Acknowledges

the efforts of the Unit to continuously update and improve

its medium- and long-term strategy for 2010–2019, taking into account the

dynamics and challenges of the environment in which it undertakes its activities;

4.

Notes with appreciation

the launch of the web-based tracking system,

and requests the participating organizations to make full use of the new system and

provide in-depth analysis on how the recommendations of the Unit are being

implemented;

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1 Resolution 31/192, annex.

2 Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixty-seventh Session, Supplement No. 34 (A/67/34).

3 A/67/724.