Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador

A/RES/48/243View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 134 Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador, published in 1994.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 1991–1996

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/50/246

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1996	A/RES/50/246	Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador	1,156	43%Compare
1995	A/RES/49/246	Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador	1,374	37%Compare
1994	A/RES/48/243	Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador	1,258	—
1993	A/RES/47/234	Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador	—	—
1992	A/RES/46/240	Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador	—	—

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Budget Contributions Cost Effectiveness Documents El Salvador Equipment and Supplies Financing Peacekeeping Operations Property Recommendations Special Accounts

What’s in this document?

17 operative paragraphs

A/48/842 and Corr.1.

A/48/898.

Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador as at 22 March 1994, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 24,040,049 United States dollars;

Expresses concern about the deteriorating financial situation with regard to peace-keeping activities due to overdue payments by Member States of their assessments, particularly Member States in arrears;

Reaffirms its resolution 48/227 of 23 December 1993 and stresses the need for the Secretariat to submit budget documents in time in order to allow for a proper and thorough review and approval by the General Assembly of the budgets before their implementation;

Notes with satisfaction an improvement in the compliance by the Secretariat with certain resolutions of the General Assembly with regard to the form of budget documents concerning peace-keeping operations;

Reaffirms the importance of the role of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions as an advisory body to the General Assembly in the budget process;

Endorses the observations and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee, 2/ subject to the provisions of the present resolution;

Requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary action to ensure that the Observer Mission is administered with a maximum of efficiency and economy and, in particular, to implement fully the economy, financial and efficiency measures to be approved during the resumed forty-eighth session but no later than 1 May 1994, and to report on the implementation of such measures in the context of the performance report relevant to that period;

Urges all Member States to make every possible effort to ensure payment of their assessed contributions to the combined Special Account for the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador and the United Nations Observer Group in Central America promptly and in full;

Affirms that the failure by Member States to pay assessed contributions promptly and in full and the fact that the General Assembly has unfortunately been led to consider and approve peace-keeping budgets without adequate documentation have damaged and continue to damage the ability of peace-keeping operations to implement their activities effectively;

Decides to appropriate to the Special Account, in accordance with the recommendation contained in paragraph 18 of the report of the Advisory Committee, an amount of 19,527,000 dollars gross (17,672,700 dollars net) for the operation of the Observer Mission for the period from 1 December 1993 to 31 May 1994;

Decides also, as an ad hoc arrangement, to apportion the additional amount of 14,144,700 dollars gross (12,792,700 dollars net) for the period from 1 December 1993 to 31 May 1994, taking into account the amount of 5,382,300 dollars gross (4,880,000 dollars net) already apportioned in accordance with General Assembly decision 48/468 A, among Member States in accordance with the composition of groups set out in paragraphs 3 and 4 of Assembly resolution 43/232 of 1 March 1989, as adjusted by the Assembly in its resolutions 44/192 B of 21 December 1989, 45/269 of 27 August 1991,

46/198 A of 20 December 1991 and 47/218 A of 23 December 1992 and its decision 48/472 A of 23 December 1993, and taking into account the scale of assessments for the years 1992, 1993 and 1994 as set out in Assembly resolutions 46/221 A of 20 December 1991 and 48/223 A of 23 December 1993 and Assembly decision 47/456 of 23 December 1992;

Decides further that, in accordance with the provisions of its resolution 973 (X) of 15 December 1955, there shall be set off against the apportionment among Member States, as provided for in paragraph 11 above, their respective share in the Tax Equalization Fund of the estimated additional staff assessment income of 1,352,000 dollars approved for the Observer Mission for the period from 1 December 1993 to 31 May 1994;

Decides that the unencumbered balance of appropriations in the amount of 7,260,498 dollars gross (6,511,398 dollars net) shall be retained in the Special Account in light of the outstanding assessed contributions;

Authorizes the Secretary-General to enter into commitments for the Observer Mission not to exceed 3,895,900 dollars gross (3,612,300 dollars net), subject to the decision of the Security Council, for the period from 1 June to 15 September 1994, and subject also to obtaining the prior concurrence of the Advisory Committee for the actual level of commitments to be entered into;

Invites voluntary contributions to the Observer Mission in cash and in the form of services and supplies acceptable to the Secretary-General, to be administered, as appropriate, in accordance with the procedure established by the General Assembly in its resolutions 43/230 of 21 December 1988, 44/192 A of 21 December 1989 and 45/258 of 3 May 1991;

Decides that the disposition of the property of the Observer Mission shall proceed on the basis of the principle that the equipment of the Mission should, wherever possible and cost-effective, be transferred to other missions, and, in that connection, endorses the recommendation of the Advisory Committee with regard to the disposition of equipment, 3/ and requests the Secretary-General to proceed with the disposition on that basis;

Decides also to include in the provisional agenda of its forty-ninth session the item entitled "Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador".

See A/47/990.

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