A/RES/75/252
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
8 January 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 141
Proposed programme budget for 2021
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 31 December 2020
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/75/682, para. 63)]
75/252.
Questions relating to the proposed programme budget for 2021
The General Assembly,
Reaffirming its resolutions 41/213 of 19 December 1986, 42/211 of
21 December 1987, 45/248 B, section VI, of 21 December 1990, 55/231 of
23 December 2000, 56/253 of 24 December 2001, 58/269 and 58/270 of 23 December
2003, 59/276, section XI, of 23 December 2004, 60/283 of 7 July 2006, 61/263 of
4 April 2007, 62/236 of 22 December 2007, 63/262 of 24 December 2008, 64/243 of
24 December 2009, 65/259 of 24 December 2010, 66/246 of 24 December 2011,
68/246 of 27 December 2013, 70/247 of 23 December 2015, 71/272 A of 23 December
2016, 72/261 and 72/266 A of 24 December 2017, 72/266 B of 5 July 2018, 73/281
of 22 December 2018 and 74/262 and 74/263 of 27 December 2019,
Reaffirming also the respective mandates of the Committee for Programme and
Coordination and the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary
Questions in the consideration of the proposed programme budget,
Reaffirming further the role of the General Assembly, through the Fifth
Committee, in carrying out a thorough analysis and approval of posts and financial
resources, as well as of human resources policies,
Recognizing the detrimental effect of the withholding of assessed contributions
on the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations and its ability
to implement mandates and programmes,
Recognizing also that late payments of assessed contributions, bearing in mind
the special situation of certain Member States, have adversely affected the fin ancial
situation of the United Nations and resulted in liquidity challenges that have affected
the delivery of mandates,
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