United Nations
A/RES/61/243
General Assembly
Distr.: General
7 March 2007
Sixty-first session
Agenda item 131
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 22 December 2006
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/61/665)]
61/243. Scale of assessments for the apportionment of the
expenses of United Nations peacekeeping operations
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolutions 55/235 and 55/236 of 23 December 2000 and 58/256
of 23 December 2003,
Recalling also its request to the Secretary-General in paragraph 15 of
resolution 55/235 to update the composition of the levels of contribution of Member
States for peacekeeping operations described in the resolution on a triennial basis, in
conjunction with the regular budget scale of assessment reviews, in accordance with
the criteria established in the resolution, and to report thereon to the General
Assembly,
Recalling further its request to the Secretary-General in paragraph 3 of
resolution 58/256 to report to it at its sixty-first session on the updating of the
composition of levels of contribution for peacekeeping operations for the period
from 2007 to 2009, in accordance with the provisions of resolution 55/235,
Recalling its decision, in paragraph 16 of resolution 55/235, to review the
structure of levels of contribution for peacekeeping operations after nine years,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the implementation
of resolutions 55/235 and 55/236, 1
1.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;1
2.
Endorses the updated composition of levels to be applied in adjusting
regular budget scale rates to establish Member States’ rates of assessment for
peacekeeping operations for the period from 2007 to 2009; 2
3.
Decides that Montenegro and Serbia should both be assigned to level I
for 2006;
4.
Also decides to review the structure of levels of contribution for
peacekeeping operations at its sixty-fourth session;
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A/61/139 and Corr.1.
Ibid., annex II.