Special Subjects Relating to the Programme Budget for the Biennium 2018-2019

A/RES/72/262CView PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A document of the General Assembly, under agenda item 136 Proposed programme budget for the biennium 2018-2019, published in 2018.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

3 entities

(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited
Programme 4	Peacekeeping operations	31
Programme 2	Political affairs	217
Programme 25	Management and support services	7

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Who cites this mandate in the budget?

3 entities

(Sub-)Programme	Title	Total mandates cited	Expenditure
Programme 4	Peacekeeping operations	31	—
Programme 2	Political affairs	217	—
Programme 25	Management and support services	7	—

Historical expenditure covers the complete programme or subprogramme, not this mandate. For an overview of all UN entities and programmes, see UN entities and programmes.

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

50 reports · 2007–2025

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2025	A/80/313	Conditions of service and compensation for officials, other than Secretariat officials, serving the General Assembly : members of the International Court of Justice and President and judges of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/65/268
2025	A/80/178	Conditions of service and compensation for officials, other than Secretariat officials, serving the General Assembly : full-time members of the International Civil Service Commission and the Chair of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/65/268
2024	A/79/628	Standards of accommodation for air travel report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/63/268A/RES/65/268A/RES/67/254 AA/RES/69/274 AA/RES/71/272 BA/RES/72/262 B
2022	A/77/629	Standards of accommodation for air travel report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/63/268A/RES/65/268A/RES/67/254 AA/RES/69/274 AA/RES/71/272 BA/RES/72/262 B
2022	A/77/346	Conditions of service and compensation for officials other than Secretariat officials : members of the International Court of Justice and President and judges of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals report of the Secretary-General

What subjects does this mandate have?

10 subjects

Administrative Reform Financial Implications Information Management Organizational Change Organizational Reform Organizational Structure Peacebuilding Programme Budgeting Special Missions Support Services

What’s in this document?

36 operative paragraphs

C

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;1

Also takes note of the findings of the report of the Board of Auditors,2 and endorses the recommendations contained therein;

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;3

II Estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council

Recalling section XXII of its resolution 72/262 A of 24 December 2017 and its resolution 72/263 A of 24 December 2017,

Having considered the reports of the Secretary-General on the estimates in respect of special political missions, good offices and other political initiatives authorized by the General Assembly and/or the Security Council concerning the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan⁴ and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq,⁵ and the related reports of the Advisory Committee,⁶

⁴A/72/371/Add.9.

⁵A/72/371/Add.10.

⁶A/72/7/Add.47 and A/72/7/Add.48.

Takes note of the reports of the Secretary-General;4,5

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the reports of the Advisory Committee,6 subject to the provisions of the present resolution;

United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan

Decides to reduce resources for operational costs by 2,000,000 United States dollars;

Takes note of paragraph 20 of the report of the Advisory Committee,⁷ and decides to establish one position of Senior Programme Officer (P-5) within the proposed Donor Coordination Section;

⁷A/72/7/Add.47.

Decides not to establish one position of Assistant Human Rights Officer (National Professional Officer) in Herat, Afghanistan, and one position of Human Rights Database Manager (United Nations Volunteer);

United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq

Decides to reduce resources for operational costs by 2,000,000 dollars;

Recalls its stipulation that the use of external consultants should be kept to an absolute minimum and that the Organization should use its in-house capacity to perform core activities to fulfil functions that are recurrent over the long term;

Reaffirms that the Fifth Committee is the appropriate Main Committee of the General Assembly entrusted with responsibility for administrative and budgetary matters;

Takes note of paragraph 12 of the report of the Advisory Committee,⁸ and decides to reclassify one position of Gender Adviser (P-4) as a position of Senior Gender Adviser (P-5);

⁸A/72/7/Add.48.

Decides not to establish one position of Human Rights Officer (P-4);

Urges the Secretary-General to continue his efforts to promote the nationalization of positions, whenever appropriate, as well as to build local capacity within the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq and to report thereon in the context of future budget submissions;

Decides to approve a total amount of 255,924,400 dollars net of staff assessment for 2018 for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (147,807,400 dollars) and for the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (108,117,000 dollars);

Also decides to approve a charge of 123,490,900 dollars against the provision for special political missions appropriated under section 3, Political affairs, of the programme budget for the biennium 2018–2019, after taking into account an amount of 132,433,500 dollars, approved for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq and included as a portion of the charge against the provision for special political missions in accordance with General Assembly resolution 72/262 A;

III Revised estimates relating to the programme budget for the biennium 2018−2019 under section 3, Political affairs, and section 5, Peacekeeping operations, and the proposed budget for the support account for peacekeeping operations for the period from 1 July 2018 to 30 June 2019 related to the peace and security reform

Recalling its resolution 72/199 of 20 December 2017,

Recalling also its resolution 70/262 of 27 April 2016 on the review of the United Nations peacebuilding architecture, and noting that the reform of the peace and security pillar is an opportunity to further advance and strengthen conflict prevention,

Having considered the report of the Secretary-General⁹ and the related report of the Advisory Committee,¹⁰

⁹A/72/772.

¹⁰A/72/859.

Commending the Secretary-General for his efforts to enhance the performance of the peace and security pillar of the Secretariat,

Stressing that the actions to restructure the United Nations peace and security pillar should be implemented with full respect for the relevant mandates, decisions and resolutions of the General Assembly and of the Security Council, without changing established mandates, functions or funding sources of the peace and security pillar,

Stressing also that the prevention of conflicts remains a primary responsibility of States and that actions by the United Nations undertaken within the framework of conflict prevention should support and complement, as appropriate, the conflict prevention roles of national Governments,

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;9

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee,10 subject to the provisions of the present resolution;

Reiterates its support for the vision of the Secretary-General for reforming the peace and security pillar, and welcomes the whole-of-pillar approach to integrating political and operational responsibilities;

Endorses the establishment of the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and the Department of Peace Operations;

Recognizes the complementary roles of cultural change, leadership and accountability in the success of structural changes;

Notes that dual reporting lines will exist between the Assistant Secretaries-General heading the single political-operational structure and the Under-Secretaries-General for Peace Operations and for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs, and requests the Secretary-General to keep the implementation of dual reporting lines arrangements under close review and to take concrete actions to ensure that line management within the single political-operational structure is clear, coherent and accountable;

Also notes the intention of the Secretary-General to establish and chair a Standing Principals’ Group to provide unified leadership for strategic, political and operational responsibilities to facilitate coherence at Headquarters and in the field, and requests the Secretary-General, without prejudice to the decision taken in the present resolution, to present information on, inter alia, its functioning and composition, to the General Assembly at the main part of its seventy-third session;

Recalls paragraph 22 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and decides not to approve the relocation of the D-2 post from New York to Nouakchott;

Decides to establish four stand-alone divisions for Africa, effective from 1 January 2019, within approved resources, and requests the Secretary-General to present to the General Assembly at the main part of its seventy-third session information on the organizational structure, taking into account views expressed by Member States;

Affirms, after considering the report of the Secretary-General, “Middle East Division” as the name of the related new regional division;

Decides to place the current lead responsibility for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan and the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq in the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs;

Recalls paragraph 32 of the report of the Advisory Committee, and decides to consider the three posts in the context of resolution 72/288 of 5 July 2018 on the support account for peacekeeping operations;

Takes note of paragraph 42 of the report of the Advisory Committee;

Recognizes the important contribution and increasing role of the police component in peacekeeping operations, including their peacebuilding efforts, and requests the Secretary-General to conduct an assessment on the functions, structure, capacity and level of the Police Division in the new structure and to report thereon to the General Assembly at its seventy-third session;

Requests the Secretary-General to address the issue of equitable geographical representation of Member States, in conformity with Article 101 of the Charter of the United Nations, at all levels of the two Departments and to intensify his efforts to ensure proper representation of troop-contributing countries in the relevant new departments, taking into account their contributions to United Nations peacekeeping, and to report thereon in the context of future overview reports;

Also requests the Secretary-General to undertake a comprehensive review of the implementation of the present resolution and to report thereon to the General Assembly at the main part of its seventy-fifth session;

IV Global service delivery model for the United Nations Secretariat

Recalling section III of its resolution 67/246 of 24 December 2012, paragraph 13 of section VII of its resolution 69/262 of 29 December 2014, paragraph 19 of its resolution 69/273 of 2 April 2015, section XIX of its resolution 70/248 A of 23 December 2015 and section XVII of its resolution 71/272 A of 23 December 2016,

Having considered the report of the Secretary-General¹¹ and the related report of the Advisory Committee,¹²

¹¹A/72/801 and A/72/801/Add.1/Rev.1.

¹²A/72/7/Add.50.

Having considered also the note by the Secretary-General transmitting the report of the Joint Inspection Unit entitled “Administrative support services: the role of service centres in redesigning administrative service delivery”¹³ and the note by the Secretary-General transmitting his comments and those of the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination thereon,¹⁴

¹³A/72/299.

¹⁴A/72/299/Add.1.

Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;11

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the Advisory Committee,12 subject to the provisions of the present resolution;

Takes note of paragraphs 10, 11 and 23 of the report of the Advisory Committee;

Requests the Secretary-General to submit to the General Assembly, no later than at the first resumed part of its seventy-third session, a new proposal for the global service delivery model which fully takes into account paragraph 5 of the report of the Advisory Committee and the comments, observations and recommendations of the Joint Inspection Unit,13 and to consult with Member States and relevant stakeholders and consider the views expressed by them.

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