Closed Peacekeeping Missions

A/RES/74/278View PDF

Who adopted this document and its mandates?

A Resolution of the General Assembly, under agenda item 148 Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations, published in 2020.

What other versions does this mandate have?

6 versions · 2003–2024

This is an older version — the most recent is A/RES/78/296

Year	Symbol	Title	Word length	Text similarity
2024	A/RES/78/296	Closed peacekeeping missions	77	26%Compare
2022	A/RES/76/280	Closed peacekeeping missions	275	42%Compare
2021	A/RES/75/296	Closed peacekeeping missions	277	44%Compare
2020	A/RES/74/278	Closed peacekeeping missions	319	31%Compare
2011	A/RES/65/293	Closed peacekeeping missions	390	18%Compare

Which reports were submitted under this mandate?

5 reports · 2016–2020

Year	Symbol	Title	Mandate resolution
2020	A/75/619	Updated financial position of closed peacekeeping missions as at 30 June 2020 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/74/278
2019	A/74/574	Updated financial position of closed peacekeeping missions as at 30 June 2019 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/57/323
2018	A/73/604	Updated financial position of closed peacekeeping missions as at 30 June 2018 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/57/323
2017	A/72/649	Updated financial position of closed peacekeeping missions as at 30 June 2017 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/57/323
2016	A/71/652	Updated financial position of closed peacekeeping missions as at 30 June 2016 report of the Secretary-General	A/RES/57/323

What subjects does this mandate have?

4 subjects

Cash Management Dissolution Financial Management Peacekeeping Operations

What’s in this document?

9 operative paragraphs

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

Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the reports of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,2 subject to the provisions of the present resolution;

Stresses that all Member States should fulfil their financial obligations as set out in the Charter of the United Nations on time, in full and without conditions;

Urges all Member States to make every possible effort to ensure payment of their assessed contributions in full;

Takes note of paragraphs 10 and 11 (b) of the report of the Advisory Committee;³

³A/74/772.

Recalls regulations 5.3, 5.4, 5.5 and 5.10 of the Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations,⁴ regrets that claims payable to troop- and police-contributing countries and outstanding dues to Member States from closed peacekeeping operation budgets have not been settled, and emphasizes its commitment to resolve this issue;

⁴ST/SGB/2013/4 and ST/SGB/2013/4/Amend.1.

Requests the Secretary-General to continue to take every measure necessary to reimburse troop- and police-contributing countries before the closure of any peacekeeping mission, and to avoid the current practice of delaying reimbursements to troop- and police-contributing countries;

Notes that the use of unreturned balances to cover temporary liquidity needs of the Organization in 2018 and 2019 is not an established mechanism, and emphasizes that this practice is not sustainable;

Decides to consider at the second part of its resumed seventy-fifth session the financial position of closed peacekeeping missions, under the agenda item entitled “Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations”.

30 June 2020

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