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Recalling also Security Council resolution 743 (1992) of
21 February 1992, by which the Council established the United Nations
Protection Force, and the subsequent resolutions by which the Council extended
and expanded its mandate,
Recalling further Security Council resolution 981 (1995) of
31 March 1995, by which the Council established the United Nations Confidence
Restoration Operation in Croatia, to be known as UNCRO,
Recalling Security Council resolution 983 (1995) of 31 March 1995, by
which the Council decided that the United Nations Protection Force within the
former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia should be known as the United Nations
Preventive Deployment Force,
Recalling also Security Council resolution 1025 (1995) of
30 November 1995, in which the Council decided to terminate the mandate of the
United Nations Confidence Restoration Operation in Croatia on 15 January 1996,
Recalling further Security Council resolution 1031 (1995) of
15 December 1995, in which the Council decided to terminate the mandate of the
United Nations Protection Force on the date on which the Secretary-General
reported that the transfer of authority from the United Nations Protection
Force to the Implementation Force had taken place,
Recalling the letter dated 1 February 1996 from the President of the
Security Council to the Secretary-General informing him of the Council’s
concurrence in principle that the United Nations Preventive Deployment Force
become an independent mission,4
Recalling also its resolution 46/233 of 19 March 1992 on the financing
of the United Nations Protection Force and its subsequent resolutions and
decisions thereon, the latest of which was decision 50/410 C of
17 September 1996,
Reaffirming that the costs of the combined Forces 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 combined Forces, 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,
Bearing in mind the special responsibilities of the States permanent
members of the Security Council, as indicated in General Assembly resolution
1874 (S-IV) of 27 June 1963, in the financing of such operations,
4
See S/1996/76.
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