Scale of Assessments for the Apportionment of the Expenses of the United Nations

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 124Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations, published in 2004.

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Financial Regulations Foreign Exchange Rates Holy See Payments Arrangements Statistical Methodology

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Reaffirms its earlier decision in its resolution 55/5 B that the elements of the scale of assessments outlined in paragraph 1 of that resolution will be fixed until 2006;

Resolves that the scale of assessments for the contributions of Member States to the regular budget of the United Nations for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 shall be as follows:

Also resolves that:

Notwithstanding the terms of financial regulation 3.9, the Secretary-General shall be empowered to accept, at his discretion and after consultation with the Chairman of the Committee on Contributions, a portion of the contributions of Member States for the calendar years 2004, 2005 and 2006 in currencies other than the United States dollar;

In accordance with financial regulation 3.8,6 the Holy See, which is not a Member of the United Nations but which participates in certain of its activities, shall be called upon to contribute towards the expenses of the Organization for 2004, 2005 and 2006 on the basis of a notional assessment rate of 0.001 per cent, which represents the basis for the calculation of the flat annual fees to be charged to the Holy See in accordance with General Assembly resolution 44/197 B of 21 December 1989;

Notes that the application of the current methodology, as set out above, leads to substantial increases in the rate of assessment of some Member States, including developing countries;

Emphasizes the need for future scales of assessments to reflect the principle that the expenses of the Organization shall be apportioned broadly according to capacity to pay;

Requests the Committee on Contributions, in accordance with its mandate and the rules of procedure of the General Assembly, to continue to review the methodology of future scales of assessments based on the principle that the expenses of the Organization shall be apportioned broadly according to capacity to pay;

Recalls paragraph 7 of its resolution 54/237 D of 7 April 2000, and requests the Committee on Contributions to continue its consideration of possible systematic criteria for deciding when market exchange rates should be replaced with price-adjusted rates of exchange or other appropriate conversion rates for the purposes of preparing the scale of assessments, taking into account the relevant provisions of resolution 46/221 B, and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session;

Requests the Committee on Contributions to continue to make a thorough analysis of the revised method of calculating price-adjusted rates of exchange and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session;

Recalls paragraph 1 of its resolution 48/223 C of 23 December 1993, and reaffirms that the Committee on Contributions as a technical body is required to prepare the scale of assessments strictly on the basis of reliable, verifiable and comparable data;

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on multi-year payment plans;3

Urges all Member States to pay their assessed contributions in full, on time and without imposing conditions;

Reaffirms paragraph 1 of resolution 57/4 B;

Notes the decision of the Committee on Contributions, contained in paragraph 130 of its report,2 to consider further at its sixty-fourth session the question of measures to encourage the payment of arrears, and requests the Committee to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session;

Endorses the preliminary observations of the Committee on Contributions concerning criteria for ad hoc adjustments of the rates of assessment, contained in paragraphs 45 and 47 of its report;2

Notes the decision of the Committee on Contributions to consider the question further at its sixty-fourth session, and requests the Committee to report thereon to the General Assembly at its fifty-ninth session;

Reaffirms paragraph 4 of its resolution 57/4 B, and urges the Committee on Contributions to expedite its work on the criteria regarding ad hoc adjustments of the rates of assessment;

Endorses the recommendations of the Committee on Contributions contained in paragraph 122 of its report;2

Decides to defer until its fifty-ninth session consideration of the question of the outstanding assessed contributions of the former Yugoslavia.

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