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Financial Emergency of the United Nations

A/RES/37/13No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 105Financial emergency of the United Nations, published in 1982.

What else is in this group?

19 documents · 1977–1989
Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1989).
  • 1989A/RES/43/220Financial emergency of the United NationsCompare with earlier document
  • 1988A/RES/42/216[B]Financial emergency of the United Nations resolutionsCompare with earlier document
  • 1988A/RES/42/216[A]Financial emergency of the United Nations resolutionsCompare with earlier document
  • 1988A/RES/42/216Financial emergency of the United Nations resolutionsCompare with earlier document
  • 1987A/RES/41/204[B]Financial emergency of the United Nations resolutionsCompare with earlier document

This group bundles related documents that are not individually ordered.

iGrouped automatically by matching titles within the same organ.

What subjects does this mandate have?

1 topic
Financing

What does this mandate say?

11 operative paragraphs
1
Reaffirms its commitment to seek a comprehensive and lasting solution to the financial problems of the United Nations, based on the principle of collective financial re­ sponsibility of Member States;
2
Renews its appeal to all Member States to make their best efforts to overcome constraints to the prompt payment early each year of full assessed contributions and of ad­ vances to the Working Capital Fund;
3
Expresses its appreciation to all Member States which pay their assessed contributions in full within thirty days of the receipt of the Secretary-General's request, in accordance with regulation 5.4 of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations;
4
Requests the Secretary-General, in addition to his official communications to the permanent representatives of Member States, to approach, as and when appropriate, the Governments of Member States for the purpose of encour­ aging expeditious payment in full of assessed contributions,
in compliance with regulation 5.4 of the Financial Regu­ lations of the United Nations;
5
Invites Member States also to provide, in response to the official communication of the Secretary-General and consistent with regulation 5.4 of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations, information regarding their expected pattern of payments, in order to facilitate the financial plan­ ning by the Secretary-General;
6
Requests the Negotiating Committee on the Financial Emergency of the United Nations to keep the financial situation of the Organization under review and to report, as appropriate, to the General Assembly;
7
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the Gen­ eral Assembly at its thirty-eighth session:
a
Detailed information relating to the extent, rate of increase and composition of the deficit of the Organization, the pattern of payments of Member States, the reasons for delays in such payments as known to the Secretary-General, the cash-flow situation and voluntary contributions received from Member States and other sources pursuant to General Assembly resolutions 2053 A (XX) of 15 December 1965 and 3049 A (XXVII) of 19 December 1972;
b
A progress report on the status of the project on the issue of special postage stamps, including proposals to use a portion of the revenues to further the cause of the pro­ tection of nature;
8
Further requests the Secretary-General to include in his report a study of suggestions and proposals put forward by Member States during the discussions of this item at the thirty-seventh session of the General Assembly;
9
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-eighth session the item entitled '' Financial emergency of the United Nations: report of the Negotiating Committee on the Financial Emergency of the United Nations".

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