A UNITED NATIONS General Assembly Distr. GENERAL A/RES/48/243 10 May 1994 Forty-eighth session Agenda item 134 RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY [on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/48/817/Add.2)] 48/243. Financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador The General Assembly, Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financing of the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador, 1/ and the related report of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2/ Bearing in mind Security Council resolution 693 (1991) of 20 May 1991, by which the Council established the United Nations Observer Mission in El Salvador, and Council resolution 729 (1992) of 14 January 1992, by which the Council enlarged the mandate of the Observer Mission, as well as the subsequent resolutions by which the Council extended the mandate of the Mission, the latest of which was resolution 888 (1993) of 30 November 1993, Recalling its resolutions 47/223 of 16 March 1993 and 47/234 of 14 September 1993 and its decision 48/468 A of 23 December 1993 on the financing of the Observer Mission, Reaffirming that the costs of the Observer Mission are expenses of the Organization to be borne by Member States in accordance with Article 17, paragraph 2, of the Charter of the United Nations, Recalling its previous decisions regarding the fact that, in order to meet the expenditures caused by the Observer Mission, a different procedure is required from the one applied to meet expenditures of the regular budget of the United Nations, Taking into account the fact that the economically more developed countries are in a position to make relatively larger contributions and that the economically less developed countries have a relatively limited capacity to contribute towards such an operation, __________ 1/ A/48/842 and Corr.1. 2/ A/48/898. /...