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General Assembly: Press Release


GA/AB/3229
18 May 1998


Press Release
GA/AB/3229


FIFTH COMMITTEE CONCLUDES GENERAL DISCUSSION OF FINANCING OF SEVERAL PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS

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The Secretariat should explain its use of gratis personnel to negotiate contracts with troop-contributing countries, the Fifth Committee (Administrative and Budgetary) was told this afternoon as it concluded its general discussion of the individual budgets of most United Nations peacekeeping operations.