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UNITED
NATIONS
General Assembly
Distr.
GENERAL
A/RES/49/232
2 February 1995
Forty-ninth session
Agenda item 129
RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/49/812)]
49/232.
Financing of the United Nations Observer
Mission in Liberia
The General Assembly,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the financing
of the United Nations Observer Mission in Liberia 1/ and the related report
of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2/
Recalling Security Council resolution 866 (1993) of 22 September 1993,
by which the Council established the United Nations Observer Mission in
Liberia, and the subsequent resolutions by which the Council renewed the
mandate of the Observer Mission, the latest of which was resolution 950 (1994)
of 21 October 1994,
Recalling also its decision 48/478 of 23 December 1993 on the financing
of the Observer Mission and its subsequent resolutions thereon, the latest of
which was resolution 48/247 B of 29 July 1994,
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
1/
A/49/571 and Add.1.
2/
A/49/786.
95-76255
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