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Programme Budget for 2025 Resolutions

A/RES/79/259 A-CNo PDF available

Who created this mandate?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 139Proposed programme budget for 2025, published in 2024.

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
  • 2024A/RES/79/259 A-CProgramme budget for 2025 resolutionsCompare with previous version
  • 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?

19 operative paragraphs

A

Resolves that, for 2025:
1
Appropriations totalling 3,717,379,600 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 2025 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.
55th (resumed) plenary meeting
24 December 2024

B

Resolves that, for 2025:
1
Estimates of income totalling 364,273,100 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.
55th (resumed) plenary meeting
24 December 2024

C

Resolves that, for 2025:
1
Budget appropriations totalling 3,743,352,400 United States dollars, consisting of 3,717,379,600 dollars approved for 2025 by the General Assembly in paragraph 1 of resolution A above, and 25,972,800 in additional appropriations for 2024, as approved by the Assembly in its resolutions 78/273 and 78/274 of 24 April 2024 and its decision 78/549 of 24 April 2024, 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
34,801,100 dollars, representing the estimated income other than staff assessment income approved for 2025 under resolution B above;
b
88,824,100 dollars, as reflected in the financial performance report on the programme budget for 2023;
c
5,200,000 dollars, representing the returnable income from cost recovery from the United Nations Support Mission in Libya;
d
3,614,527,200 dollars, representing the assessment to be apportioned among Member States, of which an amount of 3,589,527,200 dollars is to be apportioned in accordance with Assembly resolution 79/249 of 24 December 2024 on the scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations. The remaining amount of 25,000,000 dollars is to be apportioned in accordance with the scale of assessments for peacekeeping operations of the United Nations for 2025, in line with the decision of the Assembly reflected in its resolution 78/257 of 22 December 2023, in which it decided that the assessment rates applicable to the regular budget are applied to half of the grant to the Peacebuilding Account, while the assessment rates applicable to the financing of United Nations peacekeeping operations are applied to the other half;
2
In addition, there shall be added an amount totalling 139,500,000 dollars, relating to the following:
a
A commitment authority in the amount of 86,500,000 dollars for special political missions approved by the General Assembly in section VIII of its resolution 79/258 of 24 December 2024;
b
A commitment authority in the amount of 53,000,000 dollars to provide sufficient funding for the reinvigorated resident coordinator system approved by the Assembly in section XVIII of its resolution 79/258;
3
As a result, the total assessment amounts to 3,754,027,200 dollars;
4
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 totalling 329,472,000 dollars relating to the appropriations for 2025 and 1,300,000 dollars relating to the additional appropriations for 2024.
55th (resumed) plenary meeting
24 December 2024

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