Proposed Programme Budget Outline for the Biennium 2002-2003

A/RES/55/233View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 116 Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations, published in 2001.

What other versions does this mandate have?

14 versions · 1991–2017

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/71/274

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2017	A/RES/71/274	Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2018-2019	512	68%Compare
2015	A/RES/69/264	Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2016-2017	632	48%Compare
2013	A/RES/67/248	Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2014-2015	916	40%Compare
2011	A/RES/65/262	Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2012-2013	803	43%Compare
2009	A/RES/63/266	Proposed programme budget outline for the biennium 2010-2011	1,000	42%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

1 report · 2007

Year	Symbol	Title		Mandate resolution
2007	A/62/229	Review of the experience of the utilization of the contingency fund report of the Secretary-General		A/RES/61/254

What subjects does this mandate have?

3 subjects

Programme Budgeting Special Missions Staff Security

What’s in this document?

26 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination⁵ and the report and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;3

⁵Official Records of the General Assembly, Fifty-fifth Session, Supplement No. 16 (A/55/16).

Reaffirms that the proposed programme budget outline shall contain an indication of the following:

Preliminary estimate of resources to accommodate the proposed programme of activities during the biennium;

Priorities reflecting general trends of a broad sectoral nature;

Real growth, positive or negative, compared with the previous budget;

Size of the contingency fund expressed as a percentage of the overall level of resources;

Also reaffirms that the budget outline should provide a greater level of predictability of resources required for the following biennium, promote greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process and thereby facilitate the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget;

Notes that the budget outline is a preliminary estimate of resources;

Endorses the recommendation of the Advisory Committee contained in paragraph 8 of its report,3 that provision should be made in the budget outline for expenditures for special political missions related to peace and security expected to be extended or approved in the course of the biennium;

Decides that the preliminary estimate of resources for the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2002-2003 should therefore include a provision for special political missions, in the amount of 93.7 million United States dollars at revised 2000-2001 rates, which should be reflected in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2002-2003, and that additional requirements shall continue to be treated in accordance with the provisions of General Assembly resolution 41/213;

Notes that the preliminary estimates of the Secretary-General for the proposed programme budget did not include provision for the requirements for the biennium 2002-2003 for the implementation of the report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations,⁶ that those requirements remain under discussion by the General Assembly and that the requirements pertinent to the regular budget should be reflected in the programme budget for the biennium 2002-2003, subject to approval by the Assembly;

⁶See A/55/305-S/2000/809.

Notes also that the preliminary estimates of the Secretary-General for the proposed programme budget did not include provision for the requirements for the biennium 2002-2003 for safety and security of personnel, that those requirements remain under discussion by the General Assembly, and that the requirements pertinent to the regular budget should be reflected in the programme budget for the biennium 2002-2003, subject to approval by the Assembly;

Invites the Secretary-General to prepare his proposed programme budget for the biennium 2002-2003 on the basis of a total preliminary estimate of 2,515.3 million dollars at revised 2000-2001 rates;

Decides that the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2002-2003 shall contain provisions for recosting on the basis of the existing methodology;

Decides also that the priorities for the biennium 2002-2003 are the following:

Maintenance of international peace and security;

Promotion of sustained economic growth and sustainable development, in accordance with the relevant resolutions of the General Assembly and recent United Nations conferences;

Development of Africa;

Promotion of human rights;

Effective coordination of humanitarian assistance efforts;

Promotion of justice and international law;

Disarmament;

Drug control, crime prevention and combating international terrorism in all its forms and manifestations;

Requests the Secretary-General, having considered his preliminary indicative estimates contained in the proposed budget outline, when presenting the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2002-2003, to reflect the priorities as outlined in paragraph 11 above;

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to submit, in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2002-2003, the total amount of resources that he should have at his disposal, from all sources of financing, in order to implement fully all mandated programmes and activities;

Decides that the contingency fund shall be set at the level of 0.75 per cent of the preliminary estimate, namely at 18.9 million dollars, and that this amount is in addition to the overall level of the preliminary estimate and is to be used in accordance with the procedures for the use and operation of the contingency fund.

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