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 122Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations, published in 2007.

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Financial Regulations Financing Foreign Exchange Rates Holy See Montenegro National Income Payments Arrangements Peacekeeping Operations Principles Serbia and Montenegro Statistical Methodology

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Affirms that the determination of the scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations shall remain the prerogative of the General Assembly;

Reaffirms the obligation of all Member States to bear the expenses of the United Nations, as apportioned by the General Assembly, in conformity with Article 17, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations;

Also reaffirms the fundamental principle that the expenses of the Organization shall be apportioned broadly according to capacity to pay;

Further 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;

Decides that the scale of assessments for the period 2007–2009 shall be based on the following elements and criteria:

Estimates of gross national income;

Average statistical base periods of three and six years;

Conversion rates based on market exchange rates, except where that would cause excessive fluctuations and distortions in the income of some Member States, when price-adjusted rates of exchange or other appropriate conversion rates should be employed, taking due account of its resolution 46/221 B;

The debt-burden approach employed in the scale of assessments for the period 2004–2006;

A low per capita income adjustment of 80 per cent, with a threshold per capita income limit of the average per capita gross national income of all Member States for the statistical base periods;

A minimum assessment rate of 0.001 per cent;

A maximum assessment rate for the least developed countries of 0.01 per cent;

A maximum assessment rate of 22 per cent;

Resolves that the scale of assessments for the contributions of Member States to the regular budget of the United Nations for 2007, 2008 and 2009 shall be as follows:

Requests the Committee on Contributions, in accordance with its mandate and the rules of procedure of the General Assembly, to review the elements of the methodology of the scale of assessments in order to reflect the capacity of Member States to pay and to report thereon to the Assembly by the main part of its sixty-third session;

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 2007, 2008 and 2009 in currencies other than the United States dollar;

In accordance with financial regulation 3.8,Error: Reference source not found 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 2007, 2008 and 2009 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 its resolution 44/197 B of 21 December 1989;

Endorses the recommendations of the Committee on Contributions contained in paragraph 132 of its report;1

Decides that the rate of assessment for Montenegro, admitted to membership in the United Nations on 28 June 2006, shall be 0.001 per cent for 2006;

Also decides that Montenegro shall contribute at the rate of one twelfth of this percentage for each full month of membership in 2006;

Further decides that the contributions of Montenegro for 2006 shall be applied to the same basis of assessment as for other Member States, except that, in the case of appropriations or apportionments approved by the General Assembly for the financing of peacekeeping operations, the contributions of Montenegro, as determined by the level of contributions for peacekeeping operations to which it is assigned in 2006, pursuant to the provisions of Assembly resolution 55/235 of 23 December 2000, shall be calculated in proportion to the calendar year;

Decides that the assessments of Montenegro for 2006 shall be deducted from those of the former Serbia and Montenegro for that year;

Also decides that, in accordance with financial regulation 3.7,Error: Reference source not found the advance of Montenegro to the Working Capital Fund shall be calculated by the application of its rate of assessment for 2006 to the authorized level of the Fund and should be added to the Fund, pending its incorporation in a 100 per cent scale for the Fund for 2006–2007, pursuant to the related provisions of General Assembly resolution 60/283 of 7 July 2006;

Notes that, pursuant to its resolution 47/217 of 23 December 1992, the assessment of Montenegro for the Peacekeeping Reserve Fund will be calculated by the application of its first rate of assessment for peacekeeping operations to the authorized level of the Fund;

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on multi-year payment plans and of the related conclusions and recommendations of the Committee on Contributions;

Reaffirms paragraph 1 of its resolution 57/4 B;

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

Encourages Member States in arrears with their assessed contributions to the United Nations to consider submitting multi-year payment plans.

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