Closed Peacekeeping Missions

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Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 150Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations, published in 2022.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 2003–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/78/296

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What subjects does this mandate have?

4 topics

Cash Management Dissolution Financial Management Peacekeeping Operations

What does this mandate say?

7 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, subject to the provisions of the present resolution;

Urges all Member States to fulfil their financial obligations as set out in the Charter of the United Nations on time, in full and without conditions;

Notes that the use of unreturned balances to cover temporary liquidity needs of the Organization is not an established mechanism, and emphasizes that this practice is not sustainable;

Decides to return cash assets in closed peacekeeping missions to Member States, subject to sufficient and concomitant action being taken regarding the financial situation of the Organization, as follows:

To return by 31 March 2023 all cash assets as of 31 December 2022 in missions with cash surpluses, excluding only cash necessary to cover claims of troop- and police-contributing countries in those missions, to Member States that have paid their assessed contributions in full to the closed peacekeeping missions as of 31 December 2022, based on the scale applicable to each mission’s last assessment;

To cross-borrow the remaining cash available in all closed missions to pay by 31 March 2023 all outstanding claims of troop- and police-contributing countries in closed peacekeeping missions, prioritizing the claims by countries without arrears in closed peacekeeping missions.

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