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Administrative and Budgetary Committee (Fifth Committee)

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How is 缅北禁地peacekeeping financed?

According to Article 17 of the United Nations Charter the General Assembly shall consider and approve the budget of the Organization and the expenses of the Organization shall be borne by the Members as apportioned by the General Assembly.

In its resolution of 23 December 2000, the General Assembly reaffirmed the general principles underlying the financing of peacekeeping operations:

The same resolution decided the rates of assessment for peacekeeping based on ten levels of contribution.

General Assembly Resolution on voluntary movements in connection with the apportionment of the expenses of United Nations peacekeeping operations also decided that:

Most recently in 2021, by its resolution , ?the General Assembly decided that, as from 1 January 2022, the rates of assessment for peacekeeping should be based on the 10 levels of contribution and parameters set forth in the resolution: and also decided to review the structure of the levels of the scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of United Nations peacekeeping operations during its seventy-ninth session.

 

Peacekeeping budgets

In its resolution of 23 December 1994, on the administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of United Nations peacekeeping operations, the General Assembly decided that the financial period for each peacekeeping operation shall be from 1 July to 30 June.

According to the timetable endorsed by this resolution the Fifth Committee resumes its work annually for a period of four weeks in May to consider the administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of peacekeeping operations.

Peacekeeping budgets are prepared based on the mandate from the Security Council. A start-up team is deployed as soon as feasible after the Security Council establishes mandate. A detailed budget is then prepared on the basis of findings of survey mission. It is prepared on an annualized basis (1 July of first year to 30 June to the following year) and therefore covers one mandate period and beyond.

In line with the provisions of resolution on results based budgeting, the budgets of peacekeeping missions are prepared based on the measures approved in the resolution including to:

This resolution was reaffirmed in section III of resolution , which:

In 2010, the General Assembly, in section VI it's resolution , decided that:

More information about peacekeeping budgets is available in this presentation.

 

 


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