United Nations Operation in the Congo: cost estimates and financing for the period I January to 30 June 1964

XVIII. RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED ON THE REPORTS OF THE FIFTH COMMITTEE
1885. United Nations Operation in the Congo: cost estimates and financing for the period I January to 30 June 1964

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, 1583 (XV) of 20 December 1960, 1595 (XV) of 3 April 1961, 1599 (XV). 1600 (XV) and 1601 (XV) of 15 April 1961, 1619 (XI) of 21 April 1961, 1633 (XVI) of 30 October 1961, 1732 (XVI) of 20 December 1961 and 1876 (S-IV) of 27 June 1963, Having considered the request of the Government of the Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) for reduced military assistance tip to 30 June 1964, as referred to at the 1007th meeting of the Fifth Committee, on 25 September 1963, Having noted the support given to the request, particularly by the independent African States, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the cost estimates of the United Nations Operation in the Congo for the period I January to 30 June 1964[6] and the report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions thereon,[7] Having considered that the Secretary-General would like the General Assembly to act in this matter as soon as possible in view of logistic and supply problems in connexion with the maintenance of the United Nations Force in the Congo,

1. Decides to continue the Ad Hoc Account for the United 'Nations Operation in the Congo until 30 June 1964;

2. Authorizes the Secretary-General to expend up to $18.2 million for the present phase of the United Nations Operation in the Congo during the period 1 January to 30 June 1964;

3. Decides that in connexion with any necessary expenditures after 30 June 1964 relating to the disposal of United Nations-owned equipment and supplies and the termination of the United Nations Operation in the Congo, including the closing of the accounts, the Secretary-General, with the concurrence of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, is authorized to utilize for these purposes after 30 June 1964, to the extent required, any balance remaining in the Ad Hoc Account for the United Nations Operation in the Congo as at 30 June 1964 and, notwithstanding the provisions of rule 111.9 of the Financial Rules of the United Nations, the proceeds from the sale or other disposition after 30 June 1964 of United Nations-owned property;

4. Decides to appropriate an amount of $15 million for the United Nations Operation in the Congo for the period 1 January to 30 June 1964;

5. Decides to apportion:

(a) The amount of $3 million among all Member States in accordance with the regular scale of assessments for 1964,

(b) The $12 million balance of the amount appropriated in paragraph 4 above among all Member States in accordance with the regular scale of assessments for 1964, except that each economically less developed country shall be assessed an amount calculated at a maximum of 45 per cent of its rate under the regular scale of assessments for 1964,

provided that this apportionment shall constitute an ad hoc arrangement for the financing of this final cost estimate for the United Nations Operation in the Congo and shall not constitute a precedent for any other peacekeeping operation;

6. Decides that, for the purpose of the present resolution the term "economically less developed countries" shall mean all Member States except Australia, Austria, Belgium, the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Finland, France, Hungary. Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Sweden, the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the United States of America;

7. Recommends that the Member States named in paragraph 6 above make voluntary contributions in addition to their assessments tinder the present resolution in order to finance authorized expenditures in excess of the total amount assessed under this resolution, such voluntary contributions to be credited to a special account by the Secretary-General and transferred to the Ad Hoc Account for the United Nations Operation in the Congo as and when an economically less developed country has once paid to the credit of the latter account its assessment tinder paragraph 5 (b) above or an equal amount, the transfer to be of an amount which bears the same proportion to the total of such voluntary contributions as the amount of such payment bears to the total of the assessments on economically less developed countries under paragraph 5 (b) ; any amount left in such special account on 31 December 1965 shall revert to the Member States that made such voluntary contributions in proportion to their respective voluntary contributions;

8. Appeals to all other Member States which are in a position to assist to make similar voluntary contributions or alternatively to forgo having their assessments calculated at the rate mentioned in the exception contained in paragraph 5 (b) above;

9. Decides that the voluntary contributions referred to in paragraphs 7 and 8 above may be made by a Member State, at its option, in the form of services and supplies acceptable to the Secretary-General, furnished for use in connexion with the United Nations Operation in the Congo during the period 1 January to 30 June 1964, for which the Member State does not require reimbursement, the Member State to be credited with the fair value thereof as agreed upon by the Member State and the Secretary General.

1247th plenary meeting,
18 October 1963.

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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, Eighteenth Session, Annexes, agenda item 59, document A/C.5/983. [7] Ibid., document A/5560.