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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/52/224
13 February 1998
Fifty-second session
Agenda item 116
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/52/744)]
52/224. Working Capital Fund for the biennium 1998-1999
The General Assembly
Resolves that:
1. The Working Capital Fund shall be established for the biennium 1998-1999 in the amount of
100 million United States dollars;
2. Member States shall make advances to the Working Capital Fund in accordance with the scale
adopted by the General Assembly for contributions of Member States to the budget for the year 1998;
3.
There shall be set off against this allocation of advances:
(a) Credits to Member States resulting from transfers made in 1959 and 1960 from the surplus
account to the Working Capital Fund in an adjusted amount of 1,025,092 dollars;
(b) Cash advances paid by Member States to the Working Capital Fund for the biennium 1996-1997
in accordance with General Assembly resolution 50/218 of 23 December 1995;
4. Should the credits and advances paid by any Member State to the Working Capital Fund for the
biennium 1996-1997 exceed the amount of that Member State's advance under the provisions of paragraph
2 above, the excess shall be set off against the amount of the contributions payable by the Member State
in respect of the biennium 1998-1999;
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