Current Financial Crisis of the United Nations

A/RES/42/212View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 43 Current financial crisis of the United Nations, published in 1988.

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2 versions · 1988–1989

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/43/215

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1989	A/RES/43/215	Current financial crisis of the United Nations	317	33%Compare
1988	A/RES/42/212	Current financial crisis of the United Nations	327	–

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2 subjects

Budget Contributions Financial Crisis

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Reaffirms the obligation of all Member States, un- Requests the Secretary-General to communicate to der the Charter of the United Nations, to finance the exall Member States the latest information on the magnitude penses of the Organization as apportioned by the General of the current financial crisis facing the Organization and, Assembly, and calls upon them to pay all their assessed

taking into account the views of Member States on the ficontributions in full and in a timely manner;

nancial situation of the Organization, to prepare a sum- 2.

Concurs with the recommendations made by the mary of those views together with an updated report on Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary the financial situation of the Organization, for the consid- Questions in its report on the current financial crisis of the eration of the General Assembly. United Nations;2lf 3.

Requests the President of the General Assembly, in consultation with the Secretary-General and the chairmen

Contingency fund

CRITERIA FOR USE OF THE CONTINGENCY FUND The contingency fund should be used for the following: (a)

Additional resources that may be required as a result of the consideration of statements of programme budget implications; (b)

Revised estimates in respect of:

(i) Amounts required over and above the estimates in the proposed programme budget for activities which had been included in the proposed programme budget but which were not acted upon at first reading pending the submission of additional information;

(ii) Additional requirements for construction related only to changes in the scope of the projects which are so urgent that the matter cannot wait to be considered in the context of the budget outline; additional requirements related to cost increases should be handled under provisions for dealing with inflation and currency fluctuations; similarly, additional requirements related to the effects of natural disasters or unforeseen obstacles should be handled on an ad hoe basis and should not be covered by the contingency fund;

(iii) Additional requirements resulting from legislative mandates,

such as those resulting from the decisions of the Economic and Social Council.

PERIOD COVERED AND PATTERN OF USE OF THE CONTINGENCY FUND I.

The fund covers additional expenditures relating to the biennium which are based on decisions taken in the year preceding the biennium and during the biennium. 2.

While prudent use of the fund requires that it should not be exhausted before the end of the period of use, no pre-determined propor-

26 A/42/640, paras 4-14. tion for a given year should be set, pending review of the question, in the light of experience with the actual operation of the fund.

OPERATION OF THE CONTINGENCY FUND I.

In the off-budget year, the General Assembly would decide on the size of the fund in accordance with the provisions of annex I to its resolution 41/213.

Starting with the budget year (i.e., the year before the commencement of the biennium) and continuing throughout the biennium, the General Assembly would decide on the actual amounts to be utilized from the fund on the basis of statements of programme budget implications and proposals for revised estimates.

Each statement of programme budget implications and each proposal for revised estimates should contain a precise indication of how the alternatives mentioned in paragraph 9 of annex I to General Assembly resolution 41/213 would be applied in case it is not possible to finance all or part of the additional requirements from the fund. It would be understood that each draft resolution accompanied by a statement of programme budget implications would be adopted subject to the provisions of that statement.

The statements of programme budget implications and proposals for revised estimates, formulated as indicated in paragraph 3 above, would be considered by the Assembly as in the past. The resolutions could be adopted by the Assembly subject to the understanding described in paragraph 3 above.

A deadline should be set for the consideration of statements of programme budget implications and proposals for revised estimates. After that date, the Secretary-General would prepare and submit a consolidated statement of all programme budget implications and revised estimates considered at that session of the General Assembly. The amounts in that statement would correspond to those previously recommended by the Fifth Committee upon its consideration of individual statements and proposals for revised estimates ( see paras. 3 and 4 above). Should the consolidated amount be within the available balance in the contingency fund, the Assembly would proceed to appropriate the required amounts under the relevant sections of the programme budget.

Should the consolidated amount exceed the balance available in the fund for that year, the Secretary-General would, in his consolidated statement, make proposals for revising the amount so that it would not exceed the available balance. In so doing, the Secretary-General would be guided by the indications of alternatives included in each statement of programme budget implications and in each proposal for revised estimates. The respective legislative bodies should take action on such alternatives at the time they adopt the decision or resolution in question (see para. 3 above). The Secretary-General would also take into account any indications of relative urgency that each legislative body might wish to make regarding its resolutions and decisions. Upon consideration of the consolidated statement, the General Assembly would proceed to appropriate the funds necessary under the relevant sections of the programme budget

27 A/42/841.

28 A/42/861.

Amount appropriated Increase by resolution or Final 41/211 A (decrease)

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29 A/C.5/42/40 and Add. I, Add.2 (Parts I and 11), Add.3 and 4, Add.5 (Parts I-III), Add.6-16 and Add. 18-36. 3o A/42/863.

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