United Nations operations in the Congo: cost estimates and financing

XVI. RESOLUTION ADOPTED ON THE REPORT OF THE FIFTH COMMITTEE
1732. United Nations operations in the Congo: cost estimates and financing

The General Assembly, Recalling the Security Council resolutions of 14 July 1960,[1] 22 July 1960,[2] 9 August 1960,[3] 21 February 1961[4] and 24 November 1961,[5] and General Assembly resolutions 1474 (ES-IV) of 20 September 1960, 1599 (XV), 1600 (XV) and 1601 (XV) of 15 April 1961, 1619 (XV) of 21 April 1961 and 1633 (XVI) of 30 October 1961, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the estimated cost of United Nations operations in the Congo in 1962[6] and the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions thereon,[7] Bearing in mind that the extraordinary expenses for the United Nations operations in the Congo are essentially different in nature from the expenses of the Organization under the regular budget and that, therefore, a procedure different from that applied in the case of the regular budget is required for meeting these extraordinary expenses, Bearing in mind that the permanent members of the Security Council have a special responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security and, therefore, for contributing to the financing of peace and security operations,

1. Decides to continue the ad hoe account for the expenses of the United Nations operations in the Congo;

2. Authorizes the Secretary-General to expend, during 1962, at an average monthly rate not to exceed $10 million for the continuing cost of the United Nations operations in the Congo;

3. Decides to appropriate an amount of $80 million for the operations of the United Nations in the Congo for the period 1 November 1961 to 30 June 1962;

4. Decides to apportion as expenses of the Organization the amount of $80 million among the Member States in accordance with the scale of assessment for the regular budget,[8] subject to the provisions of paragraph 5 below, pending the establishment of a different scale of assessment to defray the extraordinary expenses of the Organization resulting from these operations;

5. Decides to reduce:

(a) By 80 per cent the assessment of Member States whose contributions to the regular budget range from 0.04 per cent to 0.25 per cent inclusive;

(b) By 80 per cent the assessment of Member States receiving assistance during 1961 under the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance, whose contributions to the regular budget range from 0.26 per cent to 1.25 per cent inclusive;

(c) By 50 per cent the assessment of Member States receiving assistance during 1961 under the Expanded Programme of Technical Assistance, whose contributions to the regular budget are 1.26 per cent and above;

6. Urges the permanent members of the Security Council to make sizable additional contributions;

7. Appeals to all Member States which are in a position to assist to make voluntary contributions to help defray the costs of the United Nations operations in the Congo;

8. Calls upon the Government of Belgium, a State directly concerned with the situation in the Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville), to make a substantial contribution;

9. Decides to apply the additional contributions of Member States under paragraphs 6, 7 and 8 above to offset the deficit resulting from the implementation of the provisions of paragraph 5.

1086th plenary meeting,
20 December 1961.

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[1] Official Records of the Security Council, Fifteenth Year, Supplement for July, August and September 1960, document S/4387. [2] Ibid., document S/4405. [3] Ibid., document S/4426. [4] Ibid., Sixteenth Year, Supplement for January, February and March 1961, document S/4741. [5] Ibid., Supplement for October, November and December 1961, document S/5002. [6] Official Records of the General Assembly, Sixteenth Session, Annexes, agenda item 55, document A/C.5/904. [7] Ibid., document A/5019. [8] See resolution 1691 (XVI) of 18 December 1961.