Financing of the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti, the United Nations Transition Mission in Haiti and the United Nations Civilian Police in Haiti

A/RES/56/507View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 156 Financing of the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti, the United Nations Transition Mission in Haiti and the United Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti, published in 2002.

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12 subjects

Cash Management Costs Financial Regulations Haiti Peacekeeping Operations Police Reimbursement Report Preparation Resources Allocation Special Missions Staff Assessment Troop-Contributing States

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11 operative paragraphs

Takes note of the status of contributions to the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti, the United Nations Transition Mission in Haiti and the United Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti as at 30 April 2002, including the contributions outstanding in the amount of 19.8 million United States dollars, representing some 17 per cent of the total assessed contributions, notes with concern that only one hundred and thirty-two Member States have paid their assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States, in particular those in arrears, to ensure payment of their outstanding assessed contributions;

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

Expresses concern at the financial situation with regard to peacekeeping activities, in particular as regards the reimbursement of 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 recommendations contained in paragraph 82 of the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;2

Decides to suspend for the immediate future the provisions of regulations 4.3, 4.4 and 5.2 (d) of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations in respect of the surplus of 4,000,200 dollars in the light of the cash shortage of the Missions, and requests the Secretary-General to provide an updated report in one year;

Decides also to defer consideration of the treatment of the decrease in staff assessment income of 21,300 dollars in respect of the surplus referred to in paragraph 8 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-seventh session the item entitled “Financing of the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti, the United Nations Transition Mission in Haiti and the United Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti”.

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