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Programme Budget for 2020 Resolutions

A/RES/74/264 A-CNo PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 135Proposed programme budget for 2020, published in 2020.

What other versions does this mandate have?

7 versions · 2020–2025
This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/80/244 A-C
  • 2025A/RES/80/244 A-CProgramme budget for 2026 resolutionsLatestCompare with previous version
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  • 2023A/RES/78/254 A-CProgramme budget for 2024 resolutionsCompare with previous version
  • 2023A/RES/77/264 A-CProgramme budget for 2023 resolutionsCompare with previous version
  • 2022A/RES/76/247 A-CProgramme budget for 2022 resolutionsCompare with previous version

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What subjects does this mandate have?

4 topics
AppropriationsIncome SourcesProgramme BudgetingResources Allocation

What does this mandate say?

17 operative paragraphs

A

Resolves that, for 2020:
1
Appropriations totalling 3,073,830,500 United States dollars are hereby approved for the following purposes:
2
The Secretary-General shall be authorized to transfer credits between sections of the budget, with the concurrence of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;
3
In addition to the appropriations approved under paragraph 1 above, an amount of 75,000 dollars is appropriated for 2020 from the accumulated income of the Library Endowment Fund for the purchase of books, periodicals, maps and library equipment and for such other expenses of the Library at the Palais des Nations in Geneva as are in accordance with the objects and provisions of the endowment.

52nd (resumed) plenary meeting 27 December 2019

B

Resolves that, for 2020:
1
Estimates of income other than assessments on Member States totalling 295,590,700 United States dollars are approved as follows:
2
The income from staff assessment shall be credited to the Tax Equalization Fund in accordance with the provisions of General Assembly resolution 973 (X) of 15 December 1955;
3
Direct expenses of the United Nations Postal Administration, services to visitors, the sale of statistical products, catering operations and related services, garage operations, television services and the sale of publications not provided for under the budget appropriations shall be charged against the income derived from those activities.

52nd (resumed) plenary meeting 27 December 2019

C

Resolves that, for 2020:
1
Budget appropriations consisting of 3,073,830,500 United States dollars approved for 2020 by the General Assembly in paragraph 1 of resolution A above, plus 61,854,500 dollars, being the increase in appropriations for the biennium 2018–2019 approved by the Assembly in its resolutions 73/279 B of 15 April 2019 and 73/306 of 3 July 2019, shall be financed in accordance with regulations 3.1 and 3.2 of the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations, as follows:
a
25,884,300 dollars, consisting of 22,419,300 dollars for the estimated income other than staff assessment income approved for 2020 under resolution B above, plus 3,465,000 dollars, being the increase in income other than staff assessment income for the biennium 2018–2019 approved by the Assembly in its resolution 74/250 B of 27 December 2019;
b
25,192,422 dollars credited from the cancellation of prior-period obligations for the biennium 2016–2017;
c
3,084,608,300 dollars, being the assessment on Member States in accordance with Assembly resolution 73/271 of 22 December 2018 on the scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations;
2
There shall be set off against the assessment on Member States, in accordance with the provisions of General Assembly resolution 973 (X) of 15 December 1955, their respective share in the Tax Equalization Fund in the total amount of 279,273,000 dollars, consisting of:
a
273,171,400 dollars, being the estimated staff assessment income approved for 2020 in paragraph 1 of resolution B above;
b
912,500 dollars, being the increase in income from staff assessment for the biennium 2018–2019 approved by the Assembly in its resolutions 73/279 B and 73/306;
c
5,189,100 dollars, being the increase in income from staff assessment for the biennium 2018–2019 approved by the Assembly in its resolution 74/250 B.
52nd (resumed) plenary meeting 27 December 2019

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