Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique

A/RES/52/240View PDF

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A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 129 Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique, published in 1998.

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7 documents · 1993–1998

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
1998	A/RES/52/240	Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique	1,068	–
1995	A/RES/49/235	Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique	1,475	–
1994	A/RES/48/240B	Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique	1,414	–
1993	A/RES/47/224C	Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique	—	–
1993	A/RES/47/224B	Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique resolutions	—	–

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5 subjects

Budget Contributions Financial Regulations Mozambique Peacekeeping Operations Troop-Contributing States

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13 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Operation in Mozambique as at 15 May 1998, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 38.6 million United States dollars, representing 7.3 per cent of the total assessed contributions from the inception of the Operation to the period ending 31 March 1995, notes that some 54 per cent of the Member States have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States concerned, in particular those in arrears, to ensure the payment of their outstanding assessed contributions;

Expresses concern about the financial situation with regard to peacekeeping activities, in particular as regards the reimbursement of troop contributors, which bear additional burdens owing to overdue payments by Member States of their assessments;

Expresses its appreciation to those Member States which have paid their assessed contributions in full;

Urges all other Member States to make every possible effort to ensure payment of their assessed contributions to the Operation in full to facilitate the closing of the Special Account for the Operation;

Takes note of the observations and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;2

Approves, on an exceptional basis, the special arrangements for the Operation with regard to the application of article IV of the financial regulations of the United Nations, whereby appropriations required in respect of obligations owed to Governments which provided contingents and/or logistic support for the Operation shall be retained beyond the period stipulated under financial regulations 4.3 and 4.4, as set out in the annex to the present resolution;

Reiterates its resolutions 50/222 of 11 April 1996 and 51/218 E of 17 June 1997;

Emphasizes that, in implementing paragraph 3 of its resolution 50/222, double payment and/or overpayment or underpayment should be avoided so as to ensure that reimbursement is in accordance with the decision of the General Assembly;

Decides that, for Member States that have fulfilled their financial obligations to the Operation, there shall be credited their respective share of the unencumbered balance of 36,956,800 dollars gross (35,705,000 dollars net) in respect of the period ending 31 March 1995 and their respective share of the miscellaneous income of 10,328,200 dollars and interest income of 4,971,000 dollars;

Decides also that, for Member States that have not fulfilled their financial obligations to the Operation, their share of the unencumbered balance of 36,956,800 dollars gross (35,705,000 dollars net) in respect of the period ending 31 March 1995 and their respective share of the miscellaneous income of 10,328,200 dollars and interest income of 4,971,000 dollars shall be set off against their outstanding obligations;

Takes note of the views expressed by Member States on the treatment of accumulated interest income in the Special Account for the Operation;

Also takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the disposition of the assets of the Operation;⁴

⁴A/52/680.

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-third session the item entitled "Financing of the United Nations Operation in Mozambique".

Special arrangements with regard to the application

of article IV of the financial regulations of the

United Nations

At the end of the twelve-month period provided for in financial regulation 4.3, any unliquidated obligations of the financial period in question relating to goods supplied and services rendered by Governments for which claims have been received or which are covered by established reimbursement rates shall be transferred to accounts payable; such accounts payable shall remain recorded in the Special Account for the United Nations Operation in Mozambique until payment is effected;

(a) Any other unliquidated obligations of the financial period in question owed to Governments for goods supplied and services rendered, as well as other obligations owed to Governments, for which required claims have not yet been received shall remain valid for an additional period of four years following the end of the twelve-month period provided for in financial regulation 4.3;

Claims received during this four-year period shall be treated as provided for under paragraph 1 of the present annex, if appropriate;

At the end of the additional four-year period, any unliquidated obligations shall be cancelled and the then remaining balance of any appropriations retained therefor shall be surrendered.

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