Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia

A/RES/48/247View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, published in 1994.

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9 documents · 1994–1997

Newer documents in this group exist (latest: 1997).

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1997	A/RES/51/3C	Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia	893	–
1997	A/RES/51/3B	Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia	1,403	–
1996	A/RES/51/3A	Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia	1,053	–
1996	A/RES/50/210	Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia	1,358	–
1995	A/RES/49/232B	Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia	904	–

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9 subjects

Budget Contributions Cost Effectiveness Election Verification Elections Financing Liberia Peacekeeping Operations Recommendations Special Accounts

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14 operative paragraphs

A/48/592.

A/48/900.

Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia as at 24 March 1994, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 26,411,962 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;

Reaffirms also 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 all United Nations activities related to the Liberian peace process, including the upcoming elections, are administered in a coordinated fashion 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 in accordance with relevant mandates of the Security Council;

Urges those Member States which have not paid their assessed contributions to the Observer Mission to do so promptly and in full;

Affirms that it expects that the Secretariat will make appropriate arrangements to ensure that the General Assembly is not asked to take any future decisions on budgets for peace-keeping operations retroactively;

Decides to appropriate to the Special Account referred to in General Assembly decision 48/478 an amount of 32,797,100 dollars gross (32,225,100 dollars net), authorized and apportioned in accordance with that decision, for the maintenance of the Observer Mission from 22 September 1993 to 21 April 1994;

Decides also, with regard to the period beyond 21 April 1994, to authorize the Secretary-General to enter into commitments at a monthly rate not to exceed 4,359,100 dollars gross (4,232,900 dollars net), for a period of three months, in connection with the maintenance of the Observer Mission, should the Security Council decide to continue the Mission beyond that date, and to apportion the amount of 7,520,900 dollars gross (7,335,700 dollars net) among Member States in accordance with the composition of groups set out in paragraphs 3 and 4 of General 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 there shall be set off against the assessments on Member States for the maintenance of the Observer Mission beyond 21 April 1994 an amount of 7,520,900 dollars gross (7,335,700 dollars net), representing the balance of the apportionment made in accordance with General Assembly decision 48/478;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit the performance report for the mandate period ending 21 April 1994 and the budget estimates corresponding to any new mandate period the Security Council may decide on, no later than 30 June 1994;

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;

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

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