Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda items 123 Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and 159 Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola, published in 1998.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1997–1998

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1998	A/RES/52/8C	Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola	1,593	60%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/8B	Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola	1,272	—
1997	A/RES/52/8A	Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola	—	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Angola Budget Contributions Financial Regulations Financing General Service Staff Peacekeeping Operations Recommendations Special Accounts

What’s in this document?

23 operative paragraphs

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Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola as at 15 May 1998, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 90,306,237 United States dollars, representing 9 per cent of the total assessed contributions from the inception of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission to the period ending 30 June 1997 and from the inception of the Observer Mission to the period ending 30 April 1998, notes that some 21 per cent of the Member States have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States concerned, in particular those in arrears, to ensure the payment of their outstanding assessed contributions;

Expresses concern about the financial situation with regard to peacekeeping activities, in particular as regards the reimbursement of troop contributors, which bear additional burdens owing to overdue payments by Member States of their assessments;

Expresses its appreciation to those Member States which have paid their assessed contributions in full;

Urges all other Member States to make every possible effort to ensure the payment of their assessed contributions to the Observer Mission in full and on time;

Takes note of the observations and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;3

Requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary action to ensure that the Observer Mission is administered with a maximum of efficiency and economy;

Also requests the Secretary-General, in order to reduce the cost of employing General Service staff, to continue efforts to employ locally recruited staff for the Observer Mission against General Service posts, commensurate with the requirements of the Observer Mission;

Takes note of the note by the Secretary-General⁵ and the annex thereto containing the observations and recommendations of the Office of Internal Oversight Services on the audits of the procurement process in the Verification Mission;

⁵A/52/881.

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly before the second part of its resumed fifty-third session a report on the status of implementation of measures taken or initiated to address appropriately the issues, observations and recommendations contained in the report of the Office of Internal Oversight Services⁶ and other related actions taken by the Observer Mission and the Secretariat;

⁶Ibid., annex.

Also requests the Secretary-General to ensure that all managers exercising financial responsibility are issued the revised and updated version of the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations;

Further requests the Secretary-General to ensure that every official of the United Nations is responsible to the Secretary-General for the regularity of the actions taken by him or her in the course of his or her official duties and that any official who takes any action contrary to the Financial Rules, or to the administrative instructions issued in connection therewith, may be held personally responsible and financially liable for the consequences of such action;

Recalls its request to the Secretary-General in its resolution 49/218 of 23 December 1994 to include full implementation of the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations as a specific performance indicator in the performance appraisal of all managers;

Also recalls the budgetary process set out in its resolution 49/233 A of 23 December 1994 on the administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations;

Notes that the recommendation contained in paragraph 7 of the report of the Advisory Committee3 deviates from Assembly resolution 49/233 A;

Takes note of the intention of the Advisory Committee⁷ to submit in due course its comments and observations to the General Assembly on the unencumbered balance of 3,564,300 dollars gross for the period from 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997;

⁷A/52/825, para. 12.

Authorizes the Secretary-General to utilize the amount of 2,204,300 dollars from the unencumbered balance for the period from 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997 to meet incurred expenses for the same period that have not yet been recorded;

Decides to appropriate to the Special Account for the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola an initial amount of 45,899,080 dollars gross (44,301,680 dollars net) for the operation of the Observer Mission for the period from 1 July to 31 October 1998, inclusive of the amount of 2,299,080 dollars for the support account for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999;

Decides also, as an ad hoc arrangement, to apportion the amount of 45,899,080 dollars gross (44,301,680 dollars net) for the period from 1 July to 31 October 1998 among Member States at a monthly rate of 11,474,770 dollars gross (11,075,420 dollars net), in accordance with the composition of groups set out in paragraphs 3 and 4 of its resolution 43/232 of 1 March 1989, as adjusted by the Assembly in its resolutions 44/192 B of 21 December 1989, 45/269 of 27 August 1991, 46/198 A of 20 December 1991, 47/218 A of 23 December 1992, 49/249 A of 20 July 1995, 49/249 B of 14 September 1995, 50/224 of 11 April 1996, 51/218 A to C of 18 December 1996 and 52/230 of 31 March 1998 and its decisions 48/472 A of 23 December 1993 and 50/451 B of 23 December 1995, and taking into account the scale of assessments for the year 1998, as set out in its resolution 52/215 A of 22 December 1997, subject to the decision of the Security Council to extend the mandate of the Observer Mission beyond 30 June 1998;

Decides further that, in accordance with the provisions of its resolution 973 (X) of 15 December 1955, there shall be set off against the apportionment among Member States, as provided for in paragraph 18 above, their respective share in the Tax Equalization Fund of the estimated staff assessment income of 1,597,400 dollars approved for the period from 1 July to 31 October 1998;

Decides that, for Member States that have fulfilled their financial obligations to the Observer Mission, there shall be set off against the apportionment, as provided for in paragraph 18 above, their respective share of the unencumbered balance of 3,564,300 dollars gross (1,999,400 dollars net) for the period from 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997;

Decides also that, for Member States that have not fulfilled their financial obligations to the Observer Mission, their share of the unencumbered balance of 3,564,300 dollars gross (1,999,400 dollars net) for the period from 1 July 1996 to 30 June 1997 shall be set off against their outstanding obligations;

Invites voluntary contributions to the Observer Mission in cash and in the form of services and supplies acceptable to the Secretary-General, to be administered, as appropriate, in accordance with the procedure and practices established by the General Assembly;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session the items entitled "Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission" and "Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola".

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