United Nations
A/RES/55/260
General Assembly
Fifty-fifth session
Agenda item 129
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/55/964)]
55/260. Financing of the United Nations Angola Verification Mission
and the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financing of the United
Nations Observer Mission in Angola1 and the related reports of the Advisory Committee
on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,2
Bearing in mind Security Council resolutions 626 (1988) of 20 December 1988, by
which the Council established the United Nations Angola Verification Mission, 696 (1991)
of 30 May 1991, by which the Council decided to entrust a new mandate to the United
Nations Angola Verification Mission (thenceforth called the United Nations Angola
Verification Mission II), 976 (1995) of 8 February 1995, by which the Council authorized
the establishment of a peacekeeping operation (thenceforth called the United Nations
Angola Verification Mission III), 1118 (1997) of 30 June 1997, by which the Council
decided to establish, as from 1 July 1997, the United Nations Observer Mission in Angola,
and its subsequent resolutions, the latest of which was resolution 1229 (1999) of
26 February 1999,
Recalling its resolution 43/231 of 16 February 1989 on the financing of the
Verification Mission and its subsequent resolutions and decisions thereon, and its
resolution 54/17 B of 15 June 2000 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 that
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,
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A/55/844 and Corr.1.
A/55/874 and A/55/879.
Distr.: General
22 June 2001