Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola

A/RES/55/260View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 129 Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola, published in 2001.

What other versions does this mandate have?

5 versions · 1999–2003

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/57/329

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2003	A/RES/57/329	Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola	122	11%Compare
2001	A/RES/55/260	Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola	978	58%Compare
2000	A/RES/54/17B	Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola	1,419	11%Compare
1999	A/RES/54/17A	Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola	424	11%Compare
1999	A/RES/53/228	Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola	1,354	–

What subjects does this mandate have?

5 subjects

Angola Angola Situation Dissolution Peacekeeping Operations Reimbursement

What’s in this document?

12 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola as at 30 April 2001, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 75.8 million United States dollars, representing 5 per cent of the total assessed contributions, notes that some 45 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 in full;

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

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

Also expresses concern at the delay experienced by the Secretary-General in deploying and providing adequate resources to some recent peacekeeping missions, in particular those in Africa;

Emphasizes that all future and existing peacekeeping missions shall be given equal and non-discriminatory treatment in respect of financial and administrative arrangements;

Also emphasizes that all peacekeeping missions shall be provided with adequate resources for the effective and efficient discharge of their respective mandates;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,⁴ and requests the Secretary-General to ensure their full implementation;

⁴A/55/879.

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

Decides that, for Member States that have fulfilled their financial obligations to the Observer Mission, there shall be credited their respective share of the unencumbered balance of 967,600 dollars gross (116,200 dollars net) in respect of the period from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 2000, comprising an unencumbered balance of 149,500 dollars gross and additional requirements of 787,600 dollars net in respect of the period from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 1999, and an unencumbered balance of 818,100 dollars gross (903,800 dollars net) in respect of the period from 1 July 1999 to 30 June 2000, 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 subsequent relevant resolutions and decisions, for the ad hoc apportionment of peacekeeping appropriations, the latest of which were resolution 52/230 of 31 March 1998 and decisions 54/456 to 54/458 of 23 December 1999 for the period 1998–2000, and taking into account the scale of assessments for the years 1998, 1999 and 2000, as set out in its resolutions 52/215 A of 22 December 1997 and 54/237 A of 23 December 1999;

Decides also that, for Member States that have not fulfilled their obligations to the Observer Mission, their share of the unencumbered balance of 967,600 dollars gross (116,200 dollars net) in respect of the period from 1 July 1998 to 30 June 2000 shall be set off against their outstanding obligations in accordance with the scheme set out in paragraph 9 above;

Emphasizes that no peacekeeping mission shall be financed by borrowing funds from other active peacekeeping missions;

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its fifty-sixth session the item entitled “Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission and the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola”.

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