Issue of Special Postage Stamps

A/RES/40/242View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 118 Financial emergency of the United Nations, published in 1986.

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2 versions · 1985–1986

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1986	A/RES/40/242	Issue of special postage stamps	259	—
1985	A/RES/39/239[A]	Issue of special postage stamps	—	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

6 subjects

Africa Declarations Economic Conditions Financing Postage Stamps Special Accounts

What’s in this document?

3 operative paragraphs

Decides, in accordance with its resolution 39/239 A, to place one half of the revenue eamed therefrom at the disposal of the Secretary-General for the implementation of objectives as detailed in the Declaration on the Critica! Economic Situation in Africa, 26 adopted by the General Assembly on 3 December 1984, and to place the remaining half in a special account;

Requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary steps to economize on the operational expenses of the project on the issue of special postage stamps with a view to increasing the net revenue and to submit a financia! report to the General Assembly at its forty-first session;

A/so requests the Secretary-General to explore the possibility of having recourse to other feasible revenueproducing activities that could be undertaken by the United Nations.

12 J st plenary meeting J 8 December J 985

26 Resolution 39/~9. annex.

28 /bid.. annex 11. 27 O/fictal Records o( the General Assemblv, Fortieth Session. Supp/emenr No. 3[(N40!32)

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