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urges all other Member States, in particular those in arrears, to ensure payment of their
outstanding assessed contributions;
2.
Expresses its appreciation to those Member States which have paid their
assessed contributions in full, and urges all other Member States to make every possible
effort to ensure payment of their assessed contributions to the Mission in full;
3.
Welcomes the great efforts of the Mission and its personnel in the successful
completion of the mandate of the Mission;
4.
Also welcomes the structured, carefully planned and executed drawdown that
allowed the established benchmarks to be achieved as scheduled;
5.
Requests the Secretary-General to ensure that the lessons learned from the
Mission, including its drawdown stages, are applied, as best practices, in other missions as
appropriate, and to report thereon in the context of the final performance report;
6.
Notes with concern the cases of fraud and presumptive fraud identified by the
Mission, and requests the Secretary-General to report to the General Assembly at its sixtyfirst session on the matters, including investigations undertaken in this regard and actions
taken regarding proven cases, in accordance with established procedures, as well as efforts
to recover any lost funds;
7.
Endorses the conclusions and recommendations contained in the report of the
Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions,2 and requests the
Secretary-General to ensure their full implementation;
Financial performance report for the period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005
8.
Takes note of the report of the Secretary-General on the financial performance
of the Mission for the period from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005;1
9.
Decides that Member States that have fulfilled their financial obligations to the
Mission shall be credited with their respective share of the unencumbered balance and
other income in the amount of 99,287,600 dollars in respect of the financial period ended
30 June 2005, in accordance with the levels updated in its resolution 58/256 of
23 December 2003, and taking into account the scale of assessments for 2005, as set out in
its resolution 58/1 B of 23 December 2003;
10. Decides also that, for Member States that have not fulfilled their financial
obligations to the Mission, their share of the unencumbered balance and other income in
the amount of 99,287,600 dollars in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2005
shall be set off against their outstanding obligations in accordance with the scheme set out
in paragraph 9 above;
11. Decides further that, the decrease of 1,339,800 dollars in the estimated staff
assessment income in respect of the financial period ended 30 June 2005 shall be set off
against the credits from the amount of 99,287,600 dollars referred to in paragraphs 9 and
10 above;
12. Encourages Member States that are owed credits for the closed peacekeeping
mission accounts to apply those credits to any accounts where the Member State concerned
has outstanding assessed contributions;
13. Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its sixty-first session the item
entitled “Financing of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone”.
92nd plenary meeting
30 June 2006
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