Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia Ii

A/RES/56/501View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 147 Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II, published in 2002.

What other versions does this mandate have?

3 versions · 1994–2002

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2002	A/RES/56/501	Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II	753	28%Compare
1995	A/RES/49/229	Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II	1,715	41%Compare
1994	A/RES/48/239	Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II	1,565	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Appropriations Claims Costs Equipment and Supplies Financial Regulations Peacekeeping Operations Reimbursement Somalia Staff Assessment Troop-Contributing States

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Operation in Somalia II as at 30 April 2002, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 60.8 million United States dollars, representing some 3 per cent of the total assessed contributions, notes with concern that only one hundred and forty-eight Member States have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States, in particular those in arrears, to ensure payment of their outstanding assessed contributions;

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

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

Also expresses concern at the delay experienced by the Secretary-General in deploying and providing adequate resources to some recent peacekeeping missions, in particular those in Africa;

Emphasizes that all future and existing peacekeeping missions shall be given equal and non-discriminatory treatment in respect of financial and administrative arrangements;

Also emphasizes that all peacekeeping missions shall be provided with adequate resources for the effective and efficient discharge of their respective mandates;

Endorses the recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;2

Authorizes the Secretary-General to retain an amount of 19,616,000 dollars from the balance of appropriations of 40,940,700 dollars to meet the cost of outstanding Government claims;

Decides to suspend for the immediate future the provisions of regulations 4.3, 4.4 and 5.2 (d) of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations in respect of the remaining surplus of 21,324,700 dollars in order to allow for the reimbursement of troop contributors and in the light of the cash shortage of the Operation, and requests the Secretary-General to provide an updated report in one year;

Decides also to defer consideration of the treatment of the increase in staff assessment income of 950,300 dollars in respect of the surplus referred to in paragraph 9 above;

Emphasizes that no peacekeeping mission shall be financed by borrowing funds from other active peacekeeping missions;

Requests the Secretary-General to settle expeditiously the claims pending to troop-contributing countries, particularly claims towards write-offs;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-seventh session the item entitled “Financing of the United Nations Operation in Somalia II”.

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