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13. Stresses that the Secretary-General should continue to submit annually comprehensive proposals on
the total requirement for human and financial resources from all sources of funding for all departments involved
in the backstopping of peacekeeping operations;
14. Notes the observations of the Advisory Committee contained in paragraph 28 of its report,3 and
requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the delegation of authority to field missions is in accordance with
the Charter of the United Nations, the regulations and rules of the Organization and the relevant resolutions of
the General Assembly;
15. Notes with concern the reduction in the level of resources for the Training Unit, which may affect the
capacity of the Unit to perform its important functions in the backstopping of peacekeeping operations;
16. Requests the Secretary-General to examine further the requirements of the Training Unit and to include
the results of that review in the next support account budget proposal with a view to enhancing the training
function of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations;
17. Emphasizes the need for the coordination of the internal and external audits of the Department of
Peacekeeping Operations and the peacekeeping missions, with a view to avoiding duplication and overlap;
18. Decides to maintain for the period from 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2000 the funding mechanism for the
support account used in the current period, from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999, as provisionally approved in
paragraph 3 of its resolution 50/221 B;
19. Approves four hundred support account-funded temporary posts for the period from 1 July 1999 to
30 June 2000;
20. Regrets that a comprehensive review of a rapidly deployable mission headquarters, as requested in
paragraph 7 of its resolution 53/12 A, has not been carried out, and requests the Secretary-General to make the
comprehensive review available before the report on the support account for the period from 1 July 2000 to
30 June 2001 is submitted;
21. Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the necessary military and civilian police expertise in the
Department of Peacekeeping Operations is maintained;
22. Endorses the recommendation contained in paragraph 24 of the report of the Advisory Committee3 that
the six additional posts for the rapidly deployable mission headquarters be accommodated through redeployment
within the existing support account establishment throughout the Secretariat;
23. Decides to monitor closely the functions and activities to be performed by the rapidly deployable
mission headquarters, in particular its functions related to other structures in the Secretariat, and to revert to the
issue in the context of future reports of the Secretary-General on the support account;
24. Approves the support account post and non-post requirements for the period from 1 July 1999 to
30 June 2000 in the amount of 34,887,100 United States dollars;
25. Decides to apply the unencumbered balance of 3,865,800 dollars for the period from 1 July 1997 to
30 June 1998 to the resources required for the period from 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2000 and to appropriate the
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