Proposed Programme Budget Outline for the Biennium 2004-2005

A/RES/57/280View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 111 Review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations, published in 2003.

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?

16 subjects

Africa Common Services Conference and Meeting Services Contingency Funds Development Disarmament Drug Control Human Rights Humanitarian Assistance Information Technology International Law International Security Programme Budgeting Programme Priorities Special Missions Sustainable Development

What’s in this document?

27 operative paragraphs

Endorses the relevant conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Committee for Programme and Coordination2 and the observations and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;3

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

A preliminary estimate of resources needed 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 and promote greater involvement of Member States in the budgetary process, thereby facilitating the broadest possible agreement on the programme budget;

Further reaffirms that the budget proposals of the Secretary-General should reflect resource levels commensurate with mandates for their full, efficient and effective implementation;

Reiterates its request to the Secretary-General to submit, in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005, 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;

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

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to include in the proposed budget outlines and in the proposed programme budget provisions for expenditures for special political missions related to peace and security expected to be extended or approved in the course of the biennium;

Also requests the Secretary-General to make appropriate provisions in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005 to minimize adverse impacts on the provision of adequate conference services and other related services, in accordance with its resolutions 56/254 D and 56/287, drawing, inter alia, on the improvements made in the management of conference services;

Invites the Secretary-General to prepare his proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005 on the basis of a preliminary estimate of 2,876 million United States dollars at revised 2002–2003 rates;

Requests the Secretary-General to resubmit the proposed information technology strategy in accordance with resolution 56/239 of 24 December 2001 during the resumed fifty-seventh session of the General Assembly;

Decides to consider in the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005, in addition to the preliminary estimate, a provision in the amount of 29.8 million dollars for information technology and common services facility infrastructure, bearing in mind the comments of the Secretary-General in paragraph 5 of his report;1

Decides also that the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005 shall contain provisions for recosting on the basis of the existing methodology;

Decides further that the priorities for the biennium 2004–2005 shall be 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, in view of his preliminary indicative estimates contained in the proposed budget outline, to reflect the priorities outlined in paragraph 13 above when presenting the proposed programme budget for the biennium 2004–2005;

Decides that the contingency fund shall be set at the level of 0.75 per cent of the preliminary estimate, namely at 21.6 million dollars, that this amount shall be in addition to the overall level of the preliminary estimate and that it shall be used in accordance with the procedures for the use and operation of the contingency fund.

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