Implementation of General Assembly Resolution 3254(xxix)

A/RES/3463(XXX)View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1976.

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Experts Military Budgets Military Expenditures Report Preparation

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10 operative paragraphs

Appeals to all States, in particular the States permanent members of the Security Council as well as any other State with comparable military expenditures, to strive to reach agreed reductions in their military budgets;

Urges the two States with the highest levels of military expenditure in absolute terms, pending such agreement, to carry out reductions in their military budgets;

Requests the Secretary-General, assisted by a group of qualified experts appointed by him after consultations with Member States, to prepare a report containing an in-depth analysis and examination in concrete terms of the various matters specified in paragraph 5 below, including conclusions and recommendations;

Calls upon ali Governments to extend their full co-operation in providing all such assistance as may be required for the efficient preparation of this report;

Decides that the report shall give emphasis particularly to the following matters:

The definition and scope of the military sector and of military expenditures, as well as the classification and structuring of expenditures within the military budgets, with the over-all aim of achieving generally acceptable and universally applicable delimitations and definitions and a standardized accounting system, so as to permit eflective comparisons of the military budgets;

( b) The valuation of resources in the military sector,

considering different economic systems and different structures of production within the military sector, with the purpose of examining methods concerning the relationships between resources and military output;

The deflation for price change in military production in different countries, witb the aim of examining methods of measuring real expenditure trends over a period of time, taking into account differences between countries in the rate of price change;

The international value comparison and exchange rates relevant to military production, with the purpose of examining methods for accurate currency comparison of military expenditures;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit the report to the General Assembly at its thirty-first session;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its thirty-first session an itero entitled "Reduction of military budgets: report of the Secretary-General under General Assembly resolution 3463 (XXX)".

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