A/RES/75/296
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
6 July 2021
Seventy-fifth session
Agenda item 154
Administrative and budgetary aspects of the financing of
the United Nations peacekeeping operations
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 30 June 2021
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/75/936, para. 15)]
75/296.
Closed peacekeeping missions
The General Assembly,
Recalling its resolution 74/278 of 30 June 2020 and its decision 74/571 of
3 September 2020,
Having considered the report of the Secretary-General on the updated financial
position of closed peacekeeping missions as at 30 June 2020 1 and the related report
of the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, 2
1.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General;
2.
Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of
the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions, subject to the
provisions of the present resolution;
3.
Takes note of paragraphs 9 and 10 (b) of the report of the Advisory
Committee;
4.
Stresses that all Member States should fulfil their financial obligations as
set out in the Charter of the United Nations on time, in full and without conditions;
5.
Urges all Member States to make every possible effort to ensure payment
of their assessed contributions in full;
6.
Notes that the use of unreturned balances to cover temporary liquidity
needs of the Organization is not an established mechanism, and emphasizes that this
practice is not sustainable;
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A/75/619.
A/75/838.
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