Financial Emergency of the United Nations Resolutions

A/RES/42/216View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 117 Financial emergency of the United Nations, published in 1988.

What else is in this group?

19 documents · 1977–1989

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1989).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1989	A/RES/43/220	Financial emergency of the United Nations	—	–
1988	A/RES/42/216	Financial emergency of the United Nations resolutions	842	–
1988	A/RES/42/216[B]	Financial emergency of the United Nations resolutions	—	–
1988	A/RES/42/216[A]	Financial emergency of the United Nations resolutions	—	–
1987	A/RES/41/204	Financial emergency of the United Nations resolutions	975	–

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9 subjects

Africa Budget Contributions Budget Deficits Cash Management Development Assistance Financial Crisis Financing Information Dissemination Postage Stamps

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11 operative paragraphs

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Reaffirms its commitment to seek a comprehensive and generally acceptable solution to the financial prob lems of the United Nations, based on the principle of the collective financial responsibility of Member States and in strict compliance with the Charter of the United Nations;

Urges all Member States to meet their financial obli 2. gations under the Charter;

Renews its appeal to all Member States to make their best efforts to overcome constraints to the prompt pay ment early each year of full assessed contributions and of advances to the Working Capital Fund;

Expresses its appreciation to all Member States that 4. pay their assessed contributions in full within thirty days of the receipt of the Secretary-General's communication, in accordance with regulation 5.4 of the Financial Regula tions of the United Nations;

Requests the Secretary-General, in addition to send ing his official communications to the permanent repre sentatives of Member States, to approach, as and when ap propriate, the Governments of Member States for the purpose of encouraging expeditious payment in full of as sessed contributions, in compliance with regulation 5.4 of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations;

Invites Member States also to provide, in response to the Secretary-General's official communication and con sistent with regulation 5.4 of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations, information regarding their expected pattern of payments, in order to facilitate the financial planning by the Secretary-General;

37th, 39th and 60th meetings; and ibid., Fifth Committee, Sessional Fascicle, corrigendum.

Requests the Negotiating Committee on the Finan cial Emergency of the United Nations to keep the financial situation of the Organization under review and to report, as and when appropriate, to the General Assembly;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly at its forty-third session detailed infor mation relating to the extent, rate of increase and compo sition of the deficit of the Organization, the pattern of pay ments of Member States, the cash-flow situation and voluntary contributions received from Member States and other sources pursuant to Assembly resolutions 2053 A (XX) of 15 December 1965 and 3049 A (XXVII) of 19 December 1972;

Requests the Secretary-General to update, as neces sary, the information provided in his report on the prac tices of other organizations of the United Nations system for achieving prompt and full payment of assessed contri butions46 and to report to the General Assembly at its forty-third session;

Decides to suspend the provisions of regulations 10. 4.3, 4.4 and 5.2 (d) of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations in respect of surpluses arising at the end of the financial period 1986-1987;

Decides also that should the situation regarding unpaid assessments improve in the future the General As sembly would, at that time, decide on the return to Mem ber States of the amounts held in suspense (or portion thereof);

Decides further to include in the provisional 12. agenda of its forty-third session the item entitled "Finan cial emergency of the United Nations".

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41 Official Records of the General Assembly, Forty-second Session.

ISSUE OF SPECIAL POSTAGE STAMPS 44 Official Records of the General Assembly, Thirty-first Session. Sufjlement No. 37 (A/31/37).

Ibid., Thirty-second Session, Fifth Committee, 32nd, 33rd, 35th,

49 Official Records of the General A.±sembly, Forty-.²econd Session. Supplement No. 34 (A/42/34 and Corr. I).

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