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Financial Emergency of the United Nations Resolutions

A/RES/40/241No PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 118Financial emergency of the United Nations, published in 1986.

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?

4 topics
Budget ContributionsFinancial CrisisFinancial RegulationsFinancing

What does this mandate say?

10 operative paragraphs

A

2
Urges all Member States to meet their financial obli­ gations;
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3
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 advances to the Working Capital Fund;
4
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 communica­ tion, in accordance with regulation 5.4 of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations;
5
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 encouraging expeditious payment in full ofassessed contri­ butions, in compliance with regulation 5.4 of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations;
6
Invites Member States also to provide, in response to the Secretary-General's official communication 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 planning by the Secretary-General;
7
Requests the Negotiating Committee on the Finan­ cial Emergency of the United Nations to keep the financial situation of the Organization under review and to report, as and when appropriate, to the General Assembly;
8
Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-first session detailed infor­ mation relating to the extent, rate of increase and compo­ sition of the deficit of the Organization, the pattern of pay­ ments of Member States, the cash-flow situation and voluntary contributions received from Member States and other sources pursuant to Assembly resolutions 2053 A
XX
of 15 December 1965 and 3049 A (XXVII) of 19 December 1972;
9
Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-first session the item entitled "Financial emergency of the United Nations".
12 I st plenary meeting I 8 December I 985

B

2
Recommends that the Secretary-General continue to study various options to alleviate the financial difficulties of the Organization, taking into account the views ex-
pressed by Member States at the fortieth session of the General Assembly.

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