Examination of the administrative and budgetary procedures of the United Nations
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21 April 1961
XV. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FIFTH COMMITTEE
1620. Examination of the administrative and budgetary procedures of the United Nations
1. Decides to place on the provisional agenda of its sixteenth session, as a matter of prime importance and urgency, the question of the administrative and budgetary procedures of the United Nations, including the following points:
(a) Methods for covering the cost of peace-keeping operations;
(b) The relationship between such methods and the existing administrative and budgetary procedures of the Organization;
2. Requests the President of the General Assembly to appoint a working group composed of fifteen Member States - the permanent members of the Security Council, two States from Africa, two from Asia, two from Latin America, two from Western Europe, one from Eastern Europe and one from the Commonwealth - to consider the points mentioned in paragraph 1 above, in consultation, as appropriate, with the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and the Committee on Contributions, and to report in good time for the sixteenth session of the Assembly;
3. Requests the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, in assisting the working group, to consider what improvements might be required in the existing administrative and budgetary procedures of the United Nations and any other measures to ensure the financial stability of the Organization;
4. Requests Member States to submit not later than 1 July 1961, for consideration by the working group, observations on principles to be applied in determining a special scale of assessments for peace and security, and on other matters relevant to its study;
5. Decides to refer to its sixteenth session all relevant documentation for consideration under this item, the records of the fifteenth session and all draft resolutions submitted to it, any observations which may be made by Member States, and the reports requested in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3 above.
995th plenary meeting,21 April 1961. The President of the General Assembly, in pursuance of the above resolution, appointed the members of the working group established under the terms of Paragraph 2 of that resolution. The working group is composed as follows: BRAZIL, BULGARIA, CANADA, CHINA, FRANCE, INDIA, ITALY, JAPAN, MEXICO, NIGERIA, SWEDEN, UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS, UNITED ARAB REPUBLIC, UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND and UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
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