Proposed Programme Budget Outline for the Biennium 1990-1991 and Use and Operation of the Contingency Fund

A/RES/43/214View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 49 Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations, published in 1989.

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6 subjects

Budget Contingency Funds Currency Instability Inflation Programme Budgeting Reserve Assets

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11 operative paragraphs

Emphasizes that sound programme budgeting, including a greater level of predictability of resources required, is not fully achievable until the current financial crisis is fully brought toan end by the full and prompt payment of assessments by Member States;

Recognizes that the outline of the proposed programme budget is part of the process of improving the efficiency and etfectiveness of the Organization;

Affirms that the outline, being a part ofthe new budget process defined in its resolution 41/213, is in a developmental period, that its methodology requires further improvement and that the whole exercise should be applied with flexibility, in accordance with resolutions 41/213 and 42/211;

1' A/43/524.

14 A/43/929.

Recognizes also that the outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium, while ensuring that such resources are adequate for the fulfilment of the objectives, programmes and activities of the Organization, as mandated by the relevant legislative bodies of the United Nations, thereby facilitating the widest possible agreement on the programme budget;

Decides that the Secretary-General should prepare his proposed programme budget for the biennium 1990-1991 on the basis of the total preliminary estímate of 1,767,060,000 United States dollars at 1988 rates (equivalent to 1,982,523,700 dollars at 1990-1991 rates) as shown in paragraph 16 of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions; 14 6.

Decides also that the contingency fund of the programme budget for the biennium 1990-1991 shall be established ata leve! of0.75 per cent ofthe preliminary estímate at 1990-1991 rates referred to above,

i.e.,

15 million dollars, shall be appropriated as needed and shall be used according to the purpose and procedures set out in the annexes to its resolutions 41/213 and 42/211 and relevant regulations and rules;

Decidesfurtherto keep under review, during the implementation of the programme budget for the biennium 1990-1991 and in the light of the evolving situation, the appropriateness and adequacy of the level of the contingency fund, as well as its mode of operation;

Reaffirms the need for a comprehensive and satisfactory solution to the problem of controlling the effects of inflation and currency fluctuation on the budget of the United Nations;

Notes with appreciation the work undertaken on this issue by the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and its observations on the establishment of a reserve that would cover additional requirements dueto currency fluctuation, non-staff costs inflation and statutory cost increases for staff; 15 1 O.

Agrees to the concept of a reserve as described in paragraph 9 above, requests the Secretary-General to formulate a set of procedures for the operation of the reserve to be submitted through the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session, and agrees to address

further at that time the question of setting up such a reserve for the biennium 1990-1991;

Stresses the importance of indicating in the outline of the proposed programme budget priorities reflecting general trends of a broad sectoral nature, endorses the recommendations of the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination in this regard, 16 and requests the Secretary- General to submit a report on ali aspects of prioritysetting in future outlines to the General Assembly at its forty-fourth session through the Committee for Programme and Co-ordination;

Requests the Secretary-General to present his proposed programme budget for the biennium 1990-1991 in accordance with the present resolution and paragraph 10 of resolution 43/213 of 21 December 1988.

12 Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-third Session, Sup'f/ement No. 16 (A/43/16), part two.

15 /bid., paras. 27-31.

16 Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-third Session,

Supplemcnt No. /6 (A/43/16), part two, para. :14.

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