Establishment of a Peace-keeping Reserve Fund : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
1992
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SymbolA/RES/47/217
TitleEstablishment of a Peace-keeping Reserve Fund : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly.
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Summary
Decides: to establish under the authority of the Secretary-General effective 1 Jan. 1993 a Peace-keeping Reserve Fund as a cash flow mechanism to ensure the rapid response of the Organization to the needs of peace-keeping operations; to authorize the Secretary-General to advance from the Peace-keeping Reserve Fund such sums as may be necessary to finance: (i) unforeseen and extraordinary expenses relating to peace-keeping operations; (ii) budgetary appropriations, including start-up costs, approved by the General Assembly for new, expanded or renewed peace-keeping operations; that the level of the Peace-keeping Reserve Fund shall be US$150 million; that Member States's shares of the Peace-keeping Reserve Fund shall remain fixed; that the Peace-keeping Reserve Fund will be financed by the transfer of the balance of the excess of income over expenditures in the special accounts and UNIIMOG after the credits to Member States have been applied and by the transfer of whatever portion of the amount of $154,881,112 that has been retained in the General Fund pursuant to General Assembly resolution 42/216 A of 21 Dec. 1987; that States which shall become Members of UN following the date of the adoption of the present resolution shall contribute to the Fund in accordance with the scale of apportionment for peace-keeping operations in effect on the date of their first assessment for UN peace-keeping operations; that all outstanding unpaid contributions to UNTAG and/or UNIIMOG at the date of the final liquidation of these accounts shall be transferred as receivable assets to the Peace-keeping Reserve Fund.
Action note1992-12-23
Vote summary
Adopted without vote, 94th meeting
Meeting record
A/47/PV.94
Agenda information
A/47/251 124 Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of the United Nations peacekeeping operations. PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS--FINANCING
Date[New York] : UN, 12 Feb. 1993.
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3 p.
Notes
Adopted at the 94th plenary meeting, 23 Dec. 1992.