Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia

A/RES/48/256View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 162 Financing of the United Nations Observation Mission in Georgia, published in 1994.

What other versions does this mandate have?

21 versions · 1994–2013

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/67/274

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2013	A/RES/67/274	Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia	482	21%Compare
2012	A/RES/66/272	Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia	431	62%Compare
2011	A/RES/65/299	Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia	659	40%Compare
2010	A/RES/64/234	Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia	1,236	52%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/293	Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia	1,090	61%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

9 subjects

Administration Budget Contributions Cost Effectiveness Costs Financing Georgia Peacekeeping Operations Recommendations Special Accounts

What’s in this document?

18 operative paragraphs

A/48/699 and Corr.1 and Add.1.

A/48/918.

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 concerning the form of budget documents on 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/

Requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary action to ensure that the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia 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 of the General Assembly and to report on the implementation of such measures in the context of the performance report on the Observer Mission for the period from 7 August 1993 to 31 March 1994;

Urges all Member States to make every possible effort to ensure payment of their assessed contributions to the Observer Mission promptly and in full;

Affirms that it expects that it will not be asked to take any future decisions on budgets for peace-keeping operations retroactively;

Decides to appropriate to the Special Account for the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia an amount of 2,278,800 United States dollars gross (2,198,400 dollars net), authorized and apportioned in accordance with General Assembly decision 48/475 A, for the maintenance of the Observer Mission for the period from 7 August 1993 to 31 January 1994;

Decides also to appropriate to the Special Account the amount of 1,251,800 dollars gross (1,220,100 dollars net) for the maintenance of the Observer Mission for the period from 1 February to 31 March 1994;

Decides further to appropriate to the Special Account the amount of 1,002,600 dollars gross (939,000 dollars net), inclusive of the commitment of 600,000 dollars gross (558,000 dollars net) authorized under General Assembly decision 48/475 B for the period from 1 April to 31 May 1994, for the maintenance of the Observer Mission for the period from 1 April to 30 June 1994;

Decides, as an ad hoc arrangement, to apportion the amount of 1,251,800 dollars gross (1,220,100 dollars net) for the period from 1 February to 31 March 1994 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 also that there shall be set off against the apportionment among Member States, as provided for in paragraph 11 above, the balance of the apportioned amount of 257,400 dollars gross (240,900 dollars net) authorized by the Assembly in its decision 48/475 A for the period ending 31 January 1994;

Decides further, as an ad hoc arrangement, to apportion the amount of 1,002,600 dollars gross (939,000 dollars net) for the period from 1 April to 30 June 1994 among Member States in accordance with the scheme set out in paragraph 11 above;

Decides 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 paragraphs 11 and 13 above, their respective share in the Tax Equalization Fund of the estimated staff assessment income of 31,700 dollars for the period from 1 February to 31 March 1994 and 63,600 dollars for the period from 1 April to 30 June 1994, respectively, approved for the Observer Mission;

Authorizes the Secretary-General to enter into commitments for the operation of the Observer Mission at a rate not to exceed 334,200 dollars gross (313,000 dollars net) per month for the period from 1 July to 31 October 1994, should the Security Council decide to continue the Observer Mission beyond 30 June 1994 and subject to the prior concurrence of the Advisory Committee for the actual level of commitments to be entered into for the period, the said amount to be apportioned among Member States in accordance with the scheme set out in the present resolution;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit the performance report for the mandate period ending 31 March 1994 and the budget estimates corresponding to any new mandate period the Security Council may decide on, no later than 15 September 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 in its resolutions 43/230 of 21 December 1988, 44/192 A of 21 December 1989 and 45/258 of 3 May 1991;

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

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