United Nations Operations in the Congo: Cost Estimates and Financing for the Period 1 July to 31 December 1963

A/RES/1876(S-IV)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1963.

What other versions does this mandate have?

2 versions · 1963–1964

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/1885(XVIII)

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1964	A/RES/1885(XVIII)	United Nations Operations in the Congo: cost estimates and financing for the period 1 January to 30 June 1964	1,528	31%Compare
1963	A/RES/1876(S-IV)	United Nations Operations in the Congo: cost estimates and financing for the period 1 July to 31 December 1963	1,131	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

8 subjects

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

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14 operative paragraphs

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Decides to continue the Ad H oc Account for the United Nations Operation in the Congo;

Authorizes the Secretary-General to expend up to 31 December 1963 at an average monthly rate not to exceed $5.5 million for the continuing cost of the United Nations Operation in the Congo;

8 Official Records of the Security Council, Fifteenth Year, Supplement for July, August and September 1960 document S/4387.

' 9 1/nd., document S/4405.

10 ]Ind., document S/4426.

11 Ibid., Sixteenth Year, Si,pp/ement for January, February and March 1961, document S/4741.

12 Ibid., Supplement for October, November and December 1961, document S/5002.

13 _Official Records of t~e General Assembly, Fourth Special Session, Annexes, agenda item 7, document A/5416.

Decides to appropriate an amount of $33 million for the United Nations Operation in the Congo for the period 1 July to 31 December 1%3;

Decides to apportion:

The amount of $3 million among all Member States in accordance with the regular scale of assessments for 1963,

( b) The $30 million balance of the amount appropriated in paragraph 3 above among all Member States in accordance with the regular scale of assessments for 1963, 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, Nether lands, 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 ahove make voluntary contrihutions 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 Ad H oc Account as and when an economically less developed 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 Operation in the Congo 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.

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27 Ju.ne 1963. 1877 (S-IV). Payment of arrears in respect of assessed contributions to the United Nations Emergency Force Special Account and the Ad Hoe Account for the United Nations Operation in the Congo

Appeals to Member States which continue to be in arrears in respect of their assessed contributions for payment to the United Nations Emergency Force Special Account and the Ad H oc Account for the United Nations Operation in the Congo to pay their arrears, disregarding other factors, as soon as their respective constitutional and financial arrangements can be processed, and, pending such arrangements, to make an announcement of their intention to do so;

Expresses its conviction that Member States which are in arrears and object on political or juridical grounds to paying their assessments on these accounts nevertheless will, without prejudice to their respective positions, make a special effort towards solving the financial difficulties of the United Nations by making these payments;

Requests the Secretary-General to consult with those Member States which are in arrears on the United Nations Emergency Force Special Account and on the Ad Hoe Account for the United Nations Operation in the Congo and to work out with them arrangements as to the most appropriate modalities within the letter and spirit of the Charter of the United Nations, including the possibility of payment by instalments, for bringing the payments of these accounts up to date as soon as possible;

Requests Member States which are in arrears on these accounts to make the arrangements with the Secretary-General set out in paragraph 3 above before 31 October 1963 ;

Requests the Secretary-General to report, as appropriate, to the General Assembly on the consultations and arrangements mentioned in paragraphs 3 and 4 of the present resolution.

27 June 1963.

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