Programme budget for the biennium 1986-1987

 

Programme budget for the biennium 1986-1987

  The General Assembly, Resolves that for the biennium 1986-1987:

1. Appropriations totalling $US 1,663,341,500 are hereby voted for the following purposes: Section (US dollars)

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2. The Secretary-General shall be authorized to transfer credits between sections of the budget with the concurrence of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions;

3. The total net provision made under the various sections of the budget for contractual printing shall be administered as a unit under the direction of the United Nations Publications Board;

4. The appropriations for the regular programme of technical co-operation under part IV, section 24, shall be administered in accordance with the Financial Regulations of the United Nations, except that the definition of obligations and the period of validity of obligations shall be subject to the following procedures:

(a) Obligations for personal services established in the current biennium shall be valid for the succeeding biennium, provided that appointments of the experts concerned are effected by the end of the current biennium, and that the total period to be covered by obligations established for these purposes against the resources of the current biennium shall not exceed twenty-four work-months;

(b) Obligations established in the current biennium for fellowships shall remain valid until liquidated, provided that the fellow has been nominated by the requesting Government and accepted by the Organization, and that a formal letter of award has been issued to the requesting Government;

(c) Obligations in respect of contracts or purchase orders for supplies or equipment recorded in the current biennium shall remain valid until payment is effected to the contractor or vendor, unless they are cancelled;

5. In addition to the appropriations voted under paragraph 1 above, an amount of $19,000 is appropriated for each year of the biennium 1986-1987 from accumulated income of the Library Endowment Fund for the purchase of books, periodicals, maps and library equipment and for such other expenses of the Library at the Palais des Nations as are in accordance with the objects and provisions of the endowment;

6. In addition to the appropriations voted under paragraphs 1 and 5 above, an amount of $24 million is specially appropriated for the year 1986 to finance a loan to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.This amount shall be placed in a special account in order to meet the expenses of the initial operations of the new agency for the calendar year 1986, in accordance with General Assembly resolution 34/96, paragraph 8, of 13 December 1979. The special account will be credited with repayments made by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.

The General Assembly, Resolves that for the biennium 1986-1987:

1. Estimates of income other than assessments on Member States totalling $US 317,465,600 are approved as follows:Income section (US dollars)

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2. The income from staff assessment shall be credited to the Tax Equalization Fund in accordance with the provisions of General Assembly resolution 973 (X) of 15 December 1955;

3. Direct expenses of the United Nations Postal Administration, services to visitors, catering and related services, garage operations, television services and the sale of publications, not provided for under the budget appropriations, shall be charged against the income derived from those activities;

4. Income from the repayment of the loan to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, for which $24 million was specially appropriated under paragraph 6 of resolution A above, shall be credited to income section 2 (General income) in 1987.

The General Assembly, Resolves that for the year 1986:

1. Budget appropriations totalling $US 860,098,850, consisting of$US 831,670,750, being one half of the appropriations approved for the biennium 1986-1987 under resolution A above, and $24 million for 1986 only under paragraph 6 of resolution A above, together with revised income other than staff assessment for 1984-1985 decreased by $US 8,025,300, revised appropriations for 1984-1985 decreased by $US 2,597,200, and the reimbursement of $US 1 million being the commitment entered upon in 1984 under the terms of resolution 38/226 A, paragraph 6, of 20 December 1983, shall be financed in accordance with regulations 5.1 and 5.2 of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations as follows:

(a) $18,990,050 being half of the estimated income, other than staff assessment and the income from the repayment of the loan to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, approved for the biennium 1986-1987 under resolution B above;

(b) $841,108,800 being the assessment on Member States in accordance with General Assembly resolution 40/248 of 18 December 1985 on the scale of assessments for the years 1986, 1987 and 1988;

2. There shall be set off against the assessment on Member States, in accordance with the provisions of General Assembly resolution 973 (X) of 15 December 1955, their respective share in the Tax Equalization Fund in the total amount of $US 140,674,450 consisting of:

(a) $139,742,750 being half of the estimated income from staff assessment approved for the biennium 1986-1987 under resolution B above;

(b) $931,700 being the increase in the revised income from staff assessment for the biennium 1984-1985..