| Date | 23 December 1999 |
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Agenda item 143
Financing of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Genocide and Other Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of Rwanda and Rwandan Citizens Responsible for Genocide and Other Such Violations Committed in the Territory of Neighbouring States between 1 January and 31 December 1994
Report of the Fifth Committee (A/54/679)
The President
The Assembly will now take a decision on the draft resolution recommended in paragraph 6 of its report. The Fifth Committee adopted the draft resolution without a vote. May I take it that the Assembly wishes to do likewise?
The President
I call on the representative of Finland, who wishes to speak in explanation of position on the resolution just adopted.
Mr. Kääriäinen (Finland)
I have the honour to speak on behalf of the European Union.
The European Union was pleased to join the consensus on the adoption of resolutions 54/239 and 54/240. The European Union has continuously supported the work of the International Criminal Tribunals. For that reason, we had hoped to have adequate time to address the issues related to the proposed budgets thoroughly. As we have said, it is fundamentally important for the Tribunals to be able to carry out their functions effectively and with an efficient use of resources. We have expressed our concern about the important issues relating to administrative functions that remain to be addressed. We are pleased that the resolutions just adopted will allow a thorough discussion of these issues while guaranteeing that the functioning of the Tribunals will not be hampered in any way.
The President
We have thus concluded this stage of our consideration of agenda item 143.
