Questions Relating to the Proposed Programme Budget for the Biennium 1996-1997

A/RES/50/216View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 116 Proposed programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997, published in 1996.

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What subjects does this mandate have?

16 subjects

Budget Contingency Funds Costs Disarmament Research Fact-Finding Missions Financing Guatemala Human Rights Income Sources International Civil Service Judges Management Information Systems Pension Funds Salaries and Allowances Staff Assessment Top Echelon Staff

What’s in this document?

13 operative paragraphs

I

Takes note of the report of the Secretary General² and the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions in its report;³

²A/C.5/50/26.

³A/50/7/Add.9.

Approves the estimate of 7,124,800 United States dollars for the United Nations Mission for the Verification of Human Rights and of Compliance with the Commitments of the Comprehensive Agreement on Human Rights in Guatemala for the period from 1 January to 31 March 1996, under section 3 (Peace-keeping operations and special missions) of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997;⁴

⁴Official Records of the General Assembly, Fiftieth Session, Supplement No. 6 (A/50/6/Rev.1), vols. I and II.

Authorizes the Secretary General to enter into commitments in an amount not exceeding a monthly level of 2,329,700 dollars should the mandate of the Mission be extended beyond 31 March 1996;

II.Revised estimates under section 1 (Overall policy-making,

direction and coordination), section 32 (Staff assessment)

and income section 1 (Income from staff assessment)

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the revised estimates under section 1 (Overall policy-making, direction and coordination), section 32 (Staff assessment) and income section 1 (Income from staff assessment)⁵ of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997; 3/

⁵A/C.5/50/40.

Endorses the recommendation of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions⁶ to approve a temporary post at the Under-Secretary-General level, as requested by the Secretary-General, and that such additional appropriation as might be required should be reflected in the performance report for the biennium 1996-1997;

⁶A/50/7/Add.10, para. 6.

III.Integrated Management Information System project:

seventh progress report of the Secretary-General

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General⁷ and the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;⁸

⁷A/C.5/50/35.

⁸See A/C.5/50/SR.41.

IV.Conditions of service and compensation for officials other

than Secretariat officials: members of the International

Court of Justice

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;⁹

⁹A/C.5/50/18.

Approves the recommendation thereon of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions in its report;¹⁰

¹⁰A/50/7/Add.11, para. 14.

Requests the Secretary-General to address the issues raised by the Advisory Committee concerning the conditions of service of members of the International Court of Justice in the context of the next review, at the fifty-third session of the General Assembly;

V.Request for subvention to the United Nations Institute for

Disarmament Research resulting from the recommendations of

the Board of Trustees of the Institute contained in the

report of the Board¹¹

¹¹A/50/416, annex II, para. 48.

Approves the recommendation of a subvention of 220,000 dollars from the regular budget of the United Nations for 1996, on the understanding that no additional appropriation would be required under section 2 (Political affairs) of the proposed programme budget for the biennium 1996-1997; 3/

VI.Conditions of service and compensation for officials, other

than Secretariat officials, serving the General Assembly:

full-time members of the International Civil Service

Commission and the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on

Administrative and Budgetary Questions

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;¹²

¹²A/C.5/50/12.

Requests the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions to report thereon to the General Assembly at the first part of its resumed fiftieth session, in accordance with established procedures;

VII.Administrative expenses of the United Nations

Joint Staff Pension Fund

Having considered the report of the Standing Committee of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board for 1995 to the General Assembly and to the member organizations of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund,¹³ and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,¹⁴

¹³A/50/312.

¹⁴A/50/7/Add.1.

Concurs with the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions on the administrative expenses of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund;

Approves expenses, chargeable directly to the Fund, totalling 40,208,300 dollars net for the biennium 1996-1997 and an increase in expenses of 835,500 dollars net for the biennium 1994-1995, for the administration of the Fund;

Authorizes the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Board to supplement the voluntary contributions to the Emergency Fund for the biennium 1996-1997 by an amount not exceeding 200,000 dollars;

VIII.Contingency fund

Notes that a balance of 19,427,000 dollars remains in the contingency fund;¹⁵

¹⁵A/C.5/50/49, para. 3.

IX.Unforeseen and extraordinary expenses

Decides to consider the report of the Secretary-General¹⁶ at its resumed fiftieth session, and, pending a decision on the Secretary-General's proposal, to authorize him to continue with the current arrangements until a decision is taken on the basis of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions.

¹⁶A/C.5/50/30.