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Programme Budget for 2021 Resolutions

A/RES/75/254 A-CNo PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 141Proposed programme budget for 2021, published in 2021.

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

iVersions are identified automatically by matching titles within the same organ (~97% accuracy on a manual audit).

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 topics
AppropriationsIncome SourcesProgramme BudgetingResources Allocation

What does this mandate say?

16 operative paragraphs

A

Resolves that, for 2021:
1
Appropriations totalling 3,208,080,100 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 2021 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.
48th (resumed) plenary meeting
31 December 2020

B

Resolves that, for 2021:
1
Estimates of income other than assessments on Member States totalling 302,522,600 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.
48th (resumed) plenary meeting
31 December 2020

C

Resolves that, for 2021:
1
Budget appropriations totalling 3,208,080,100 United States dollars approved for 2021 by the General Assembly in paragraph 1 of resolution A above 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
31,371,600 dollars, consisting of 19,084,700 dollars for the estimated income other than staff assessment income approved for 2021 under resolution B above, plus 12,286,900 dollars, being the increase in income other than staff assessment income for the biennium 2018–2019, as reported in volume I of the financial reports and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2019;
b
649,900 dollars credited from the unencumbered balance of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia in the year 2019, as approved in section XX of Assembly resolution 75/253 of 31 December 2020;
c
3,176,058,600 dollars, representing 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 283,499,500 dollars, consisting of:
a
283,437,900 dollars, being the estimated staff assessment income approved for 2021 in paragraph 1 of resolution B above;
b
61,600 dollars, being the increase in income from staff assessment for the biennium 2018–2019, as reported in volume I of the financial reports and audited financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2019.
48th (resumed) plenary meeting
31 December 2020

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