Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force

A/RES/53/20BView PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 140 Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force, published in 1999.

What other versions does this mandate have?

8 versions · 1996–2002

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/56/299

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2002	A/RES/56/299	Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force	986	59%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/275	Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force	770	50%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/20B	Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force	1,151	72%Compare
1998	A/RES/53/20A	Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force	1,130	73%Compare
1998	A/RES/52/245	Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force	1,054	66%Compare

What subjects does this mandate have?

7 subjects

Appropriations Dissolution North Macedonia Peacekeeping Operations Reimbursement Support Accounts Troop-Contributing States

What’s in this document?

14 operative paragraphs

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²Consequently, resolution 53/20, in section VI of the Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-third Session, Supplement No. 49 (A/53/49), vol. I, becomes resolution 53/20 A.

Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force as at 30 April 1999, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 12.2 million United States dollars, representing 8.2 per cent of the total assessed contributions from the inception of the Force to the period ending 28 February 1999, notes that some 26 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 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 Force in full and on time;

Endorses the observations and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;⁵

⁵A/53/958.

Requests the Secretary-General to take all necessary action to ensure that the liquidation of the Force is administered with a maximum of efficiency and economy;

Decides to reduce the appropriation provided by the General Assembly in its resolutions 52/245 of 26 June 1998 and 53/20 A in the amount of 50,053,745 dollars gross (48,751,045 dollars net), inclusive of the amount of 1,053,745 dollars for the support account for peacekeeping operations, for the maintenance of the Force in respect of the period from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999, to the amount of 43,062,700 dollars gross (42,004,600 dollars net), inclusive of the amount of 1,053,745 dollars for the support account;

Decides also as an ad hoc arrangement, and taking into account the amount of 21,053,745 dollars gross (20,580,245 dollars net) already apportioned in accordance with its resolution 52/245 and the amount of 12,315,418 dollars gross (11,920,452 dollars net) apportioned in accordance with its resolution 53/20 A, to apportion among Member States the additional amount of 9,693,537 dollars gross (9,503,903 dollars net) for the period from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999 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, 47/218 A of 23 December 1992, 49/249 A of 20 July 1995, 49/249 B of 14 September 1995, 50/224 of 11 April 1996, 51/218 A to C of 18 December 1996 and 52/230 of 31 March 1998 and its decisions 48/472 A of 23 December 1993 and 50/451 B of 23 December 1995, and taking into account the scale of assessments for the years 1998 and 1999, as set out in its resolution 52/215 A of 22 December 1997;

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 8 above, their respective share in the Tax Equalization Fund of the estimated additional staff assessment income of 189,634 dollars approved for the Force for the period from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999;

Decides that, for Member States that have fulfilled their financial obligations to the Force, there shall be set off against the apportionment, as provided for in paragraph 8 above, their respective share of the unencumbered balance of 6,895,700 dollars gross (6,310,400 dollars net) in respect of the period ending 30 June 1998;

Decides also that, for Member States that have not fulfilled their financial obligations to the Force, their share of the unencumbered balance of 6,895,700 dollars gross (6,310,400 dollars net) in respect of the period ending 30 June 1998 shall be set off against their outstanding obligations;

Decides further to appropriate the amount of 183,730 dollars gross (166,330 dollars net) for the liquidation of the Force for the period from 1 July to 15 October 1999, inclusive of the amount of 9,305 dollars for the support account for peacekeeping operations and the amount of 1,825 dollars for the United Nations Logistics Base at Brindisi, Italy;

Invites voluntary contributions to the Force 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 and practices established by the General Assembly;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-fourth session the item entitled “Financing of the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force”.

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