Study of the Nature of the Increases in the Level of Expenditure in the United Nations Regular Budget

A/RES/2617(XXIV)View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1969.

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13 subjects

Budget Budget Contributions Cost of Living Economic Development Gross National Product Language Services Members National Budgets Professional Staff Programme Expenditures Purchasing Power Report Preparation Social Development

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Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its twenty-fifth session an economic and financial analysis of the nature of the increase in the activities, staff and budget of the United Nations, clearly distinguishing between the increase in money terms and that in real terms, taking into account, to the extent possible, inter alia, the following factors:

The reduction in the purchasing power of the amounts contributed by Member States to the regular budget of the United Nations as a result of a general rise in the cost of goods and services and the rise in the cost of living at the locations of principal United Nations offices;

( b) The correlation between:

The rise in the contributions to the regular budgets of the United Nations and the specialized agencies as well as to international programmes within the United Nations system for promoting the economic development of the developing countries, and

46 Official Records of the General Assembly, Twenty-fourth Session, Annexes, agenda item 74, document A/C.5/1264.

47 Ibid., document A/C.5/1265.

48 Ibid., document A/7806.

49 Ibid., documents A/C.5/1264, para. 15, and A/C.5/1265, para. 23. Re11olution11 adopted on the reportll of the Fifth Committee

The rise in the level of national budgets with particular reference to the rate of expansion of the national administrative establishments and the level and growth of the gross national product of States contributing more than 1 per cent of the regular budget of the United Nations;

( c) The growth in the traditional and the new fields of activity of the United Nations in carrying out its responsibilities in promoting international co-operation in the areas of economic and social development;

The extent of the increase in the United Nations regular budget as a result of:

The increase in the membership of the Organization;

The increase in the number of working languages;

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The wider experience and higher qualifications of personnel now required by the Organization, particularly for its development work,

because of the growing complexity and interdisciplinary character that the developmental problems have come to acquire.

17 December 1969.

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