A/RES/74/265
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 January 2020
Seventy-fourth session
Agenda item 135
Proposed programme budget for 2020
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 27 December 2019
[on the report of the Fifth Committee (A/74/614)]
74/265.
Unforeseen and extraordinary expenses for 2020
The General Assembly
1.
Authorizes the Secretary-General, with the prior concurrence of the
Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions and subject to the
Financial Regulations and Rules of the United Nations 1 and the provisions of
paragraph 3 below, to enter into commitments in the year 2020 to meet unforeseen
and extraordinary expenses arising either during or subsequent to the year, provided
that the concurrence of the Advisory Committee shall not be necessa ry for:
(a) Such commitments not exceeding a total of 8 million United States dollars
as the Secretary-General certifies relate to the maintenance of peace and security;
(b) Such commitments as the President of the International Court of Justice
certifies relate to expenses occasioned by:
(i) The designation of ad hoc judges (Statute of the International Court of
Justice, Article 31), not exceeding a total of 100,000 dollars;
(ii) The calling of witnesses and the appointment of experts (Statute, Article 50)
and the appointment of assessors (Statute, Article 30), not exceeding a total of
25,000 dollars;
(iii) The maintenance in office for the completion of cases of judges who have
not been re-elected (Statute, Article 13, paragraph 3), not exceeding a total of
20,000 dollars;
(iv) The payment of pensions and travel and removal expenses of retiring
judges and travel and removal expenses and installation grants of members of the
Court (Statute, Article 32, paragraph 7), not exceeding a total of 205,000 dollars;
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