United Nations Emergency Force: Cost Estimates and Financing for the Period 1 July to 31 December 1963

A/RES/1875(S-IV)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1963.

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

Appropriations Budget Contributions Equipment and Supplies Financing Least Developed Countries Middle East Peacekeeping Operations Special Accounts

What’s in this document?

8 operative paragraphs

Authorizes the Secretary-General to expend up to 31 December 1963 at an average monthly rate not to exceed $1,580,000 for the continuing cost of the United Nations Emergency Force;

Decides to appropriate an amount of $9.S million for the operations of the United Nations Emergency Force for the period 1 July to 31 December 1963;

Decides to apportion:

The amount of $2.S million among all Member States in accordance with the regular scale of assessments for 1963 ;

( b) The $7 million balance of the amount appropriated in paragraph 3 above among all Member States in accordance with the regular scale of assessments for 1%3, except that each economically less developed country shall be assessed an amount calculated at 45 per cent of its rate under the regular scale of assessments for 1963; provided that this apportionment shall constitute an ad hoe arrangement for the present phase of this peace-

keeping operation, and shall not constitute a precedent for the future ;

Decides that, for the purpose of the present resolution, the term "economically less developed countries" shall mean all Member States except Australia, Austria, Belgium, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Sweden, Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America;

Recommends that the Member States named in paragraph 5 above make voluntary contributions in addition to their assessments under the present resolution in order to finance authorized expenditures in excess of the total amount assessed under this resolution, such voluntary contributions to be credited to a special account by the Secretary-General and transferred to the United Nations Emergency Force Special Account as and when an economically less developed

6 Jbid., Seventeenth Session, Annexes, agenda items 32 and 63, document A/5187. country has once paid to the credit of the latter account its assessment under paragraph 4 ( b) above or an equal amount, the transfer to be of an amount which bears the same proportion to the total of such voluntary contributions as the amount of such payment bears to the total of the assessments on economically less developed countries under paragraph 4

( b) ; any amount left in such special account on 31 December 1965 shall revert to the Member States that made such voluntary contributions in proportion to their respective voluntary contributions;

Appeals to all other Member States which are in a position to assist to make similar voluntary contributions or alternatively to forgo having their assessments calculated at the rate mentioned in the exception contained in paragraph 4 ( b) above ;

Decides that the voluntary contributions referred to in paragraphs 6 and 7 above may be made by a Member State, at its option, in the form of services and supplies acceptable to the Secretary-General, furnished for use in connexion with the United Nations Emergency Force during the period 1 July to 31 December 1963, for which the Member State does not require reimbursement, the Member State to be credited with the fair value thereof as agreed upon by the Member State and by the Secretary-General.

27 June 1963.

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