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Scale of Assessment for the Apportionment of the Expenses of the United Nations

A/RES/1870(XVII)No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1963.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 1959–1968
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/2291(XXII)
  • 1968A/RES/2291(XXII)Scale of assessment for the apportionment of the expenses of the United NationsLatestCompare with previous version
  • 1963A/RES/1870(XVII)Scale of assessment for the apportionment of the expenses of the United NationsCompare with previous version
  • 1962A/RES/1691(XVI)[B]Scale of assessment for the apportionment of the expenses of the United NationsCompare with previous version
  • 1962A/RES/1691(XVI)[A]Scale of assessment for the apportionment of the expenses of the United NationsCompare with previous version
  • 1959A/RES/1308(XIII)[B]Scale of assessment for the apportionment of the expenses of the United NationsCompare with previous version

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 topics
Budget ContributionsEgyptMauritaniaMongoliaSierra LeoneSyrian Arab RepublicTanganyika

What does this mandate say?

8 operative paragraphs
1
Resolves that the rates of assessment for Mauritania, Mongolia, Sierra Leone and Tanganyika shall be as follows:
Per end Mauritania 0.04
Mongolia ............ .
0.04 Sierra Leone 0.04 Tanganyika ......... .
0.04 These rates shall be in addition to the scale of assessments for 1962, 1963 and 1964 of 100 per cent contained in paragraph 1 of General Assembly resolution 1691 A
XVI
of 18 December 1961 and shall be applied to the same basis of assessment as for other Member States;
2
Resolves that, in view of the fact that Sierra Leone became a Member of the United Nations on 27 September 1961, Mauritania and Mongolia on 27 October 1961, and Tanganyika on 14 December 1961, these States shall contribute for the year of admiss10n an amount equal to one-ninth of their percentag-e assessment for 1962 applied to the net budget for 1961;
3
Resolves that the joint assessment of 0.30 per cent for Syria and the United Arab Republic in the scale of assessments for 1962, 1963 and 1964 contained in paragraph 1 of resolution 1691 A (XVI) shall be divided between these two States as follows:
Per cent Syria . .
. ....... .
0.05 United Arab Republic.
0.25
4
Resolves that the advances to the Working Capital Fund by Mauritania, Mongolia, Sierra Leone and Tanganyika, under regulation 5.8 of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations, shall for each of these States be 0.04 per cent of the total amount of the Fund and that these advances shall be carried as additional to the authorized level of the Fund, pending the foclusion of the rates of assessments of the four new Members in the scale of 100 per cent;
5
Requests the Secretary-General to undertake an expert study of different systems of national accounting with a view to obtaining advice on all relevant problems of comparability arising in the preparation of statistical material for use bv the Committee on Contributions when it further exa~ines the scale of assessments;
6
Invites the Secretary-General to transmit to the Committee on Contributions the record of the discussions on the scale of assessments of the seventeenth session, together with the report of the Fifth Committee on that subject ;88
87 Ibid., Seventeenth Session, Supplement No. 10 (A/5210).
SB Ibid., Seventeenth Session, Annexes, agenda item 67, document A/5392/Rev.1
Re1olution11 adopted on the reporu of the Fifth Committee
7
Requests the Committee on Contributions, in the recommendations concerning possible rev1s1ons in the light of the results of the expert study provided for in scale of assessments as may appear warranted. paragraph 5 above and of all information from Members which may be made available to it, to report to the
20 December 1962.

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